Disc too slow or system overload - please help!

Have you tried using the "larger disk buffer" setting in the Audio Preferences window?

Also try setting the "Process Buffer Range" to a different setting.

I have this problem in my system and I find that a different combination of audio tracks, inserts and plugins require different settings. It's annoying that the user needs to assess the system's resource requirements for each song and change these.

"You're the COMPUTER... YOU figure it out!!!"

I hope your "media drive" is not the internal disk.
For audio recording, do not use the boot drive and for better performance deactivate journaling.

How full is your media drive?
I always try to clean it before important recording sessions.
You can deactivate journaling with the diskutility programm.
Alt click on the file menu.

That's cool, Logic has been doing this since at least version 4, and
it still does it.
PC, Mac, g3, g4, g5, pentuim, 2, 3, 4. inboard/outboard audio disks, SCSI, firewire, 1gigRAM, 2gigRAM, 8gigRAM.

"Disk too slow or system overload" <-- funny, I just produced a 30-minute television presentation doing all the video editing on this mac, all the while MAYA was running.
Yet, Logic gives you the overload message even if there's ONE SINGLE AUDIO FILE in the arrangement!
It has nothing to do with your buffer settings.

Even the best outboard audio disks stop spinning after a few minutes.
Unlike Nuendo and ProTools, Logic doesn't care what your disk is doing when you press play.
Nuendo and ProTools spin up the disks before attempting to play the file, avoiding the RIDICULOUS error message. Logic just throws its transport into play mode, causing the error message, and causing you to believe your system is inadequate.

After I write this, I'm going back into Logic to press play. I know as a Fact, I will recieve the ''system overload message''. Been this way since version 4,

SOLUTION#1: Press 'OK' at the error window, wait a few seconds, then try playing the song again.
SOLUTION#2: Wait...another ten years?
SOLUTION#3: Invest in ProTools.

The 'system overload' excuse is ABSOLUTELY one of those "10 years and still going" screwups in the logic software.
I still use Logic, and the folks at Logic apparently will always think you're lying when you report an error. buffer settings! <- too funny.

the biggest factors are drive speed (7200 RPM or better is recommended) and interface (FW is better than USB... yes even 2.0 usually).

i have a 300g external FW400 drive that i use for Logic and have never had this error. It's a 7200 RPM drive and it's mostly full all the time.

btw, this drive goes to sleep and logic waits for it to spin up before playing/recording.. no errors. Running Logic 7.2 on Intel MBP.

hope this helps. thx.

- sean

MacBook Pro 2ghz, 2gb RAM Mac OS X (10.4.7)

cigame2 said: "Alt click on the file menu."

By "Alt-Click" he of course means "Option-Click"
Option is that weird symbol "~\-_" in the logic manual which is nowhere to be found on the Apple keyboard avalable to the US and A.