Disk too slow or system overload in Logic pro

[beestigbeestje]

which version of logic are you using?
i was recording 6 tracks 96khz 24bit on a 5400rpm disk, with 4gigabytes of free drive on my MBP.
and it went without a hitch for 2 hours (chuncks of 15minutes, than breaks).

oh yeah,buffersize 128.

logic 8.0.2, osx 10.5.6

echo audiofire8 connected with fw400>fw800 cable.

few ideas:
have you tried changing the "Clock source" in Audio/Midi setup? you may have a bad clock in presonus? (changing the master device basically)
Maybe Scripts are being ran in background.
Do you have enough memory? maybe your system is trying to page onto hard drive while recording.

I'm running Logic 8.0.2 and the latest version of leopard.
Het problem stil is not gone.. I tried a couple of weeks ago to record a band again.. failed yet again.
The common " disk too slow or system overload" error, then I increased the buffersize, and now everything seemed stable, But there was lot's of crackle in the audio. First I thought it was comming from the outputs of the ssoundcard itself, but just to be shure I checked it by listing to the audio itself in the finder via the build in output. The crackling was In the audio itself.
So you can choose for the " disk too slow or system overload" error by setting the buffer size lower.
Or, you can choose crackled audio with no interruptions on a higher buffersize.



I'm also strongly considering a standalone ADAT recorder.

My last hope : Snow leopard

 

[myca]

I'm running Logic 8.0.2 and the latest version of leopard.
Het problem stil is not gone.. I tried a couple of weeks ago to record a band again.. failed yet again.
The common " disk too slow or system overload" error, then I increased the buffersize, and now everything seemed stable, But there was lot's of crackle in the audio. First I thought it was comming from the outputs of the ssoundcard itself, but just to be shure I checked it by listing to the audio itself in the finder via the build in output. The crackling was In the audio itself.
So you can choose for the " disk too slow or system overload" error by setting the buffer size lower.
Or, you can choose crackled audio with no interruptions on a higher buffersize.



I'm also strongly considering a standalone ADAT recorder.

My last hope : Snow leopard

Try this program

BoomRecorder

It's great for field recording and uses little CPU overhead, if you're just recording live to edit and mix at a later date you can import all the audio tracks into a Logic session (or any other DAW) after the recording.

 

[noisegeek]

Silly question, but have you tried recording to just one disk, or just to your internal?

I finally found out via lots of trial and error that my problem was purely down to the disk being to slow. Basically topping out at 84 channels per drive.

Now I know you are only trying to record 16 channels, but maybe there is a disk buffer problem with using the raid configuration?

Just a thought

 

[djm042]

I'm running Logic 8.0.2 and the latest version of leopard.
Het problem stil is not gone.. I tried a couple of weeks ago to record a band again.. failed yet again.
The common " disk too slow or system overload" error, then I increased the buffersize, and now everything seemed stable, But there was lot's of crackle in the audio. First I thought it was comming from the outputs of the ssoundcard itself, but just to be shure I checked it by listing to the audio itself in the finder via the build in output. The crackling was In the audio itself.
So you can choose for the " disk too slow or system overload" error by setting the buffer size lower.
Or, you can choose crackled audio with no interruptions on a higher buffersize.

I'm curious if your Logic project was set to record to a drive other than the boot drive. You can check that by loading the song in Logic, and going to File -> Project Settings -> Recording, and setting the recording folder (under "Core Audio").

Otherwise.. hmm... I'm kinda stumped.

 

[patrick0brien]

I get this error every time I've launched a master of any significant tracks, whether of audio or midi contents. It shows up once, I deal, then it doesn't show up again - until I relaunch another master.

To me, this particular situation smacks of a bug.

System:
Logic 8.0.2
MacPro 4x3core Xeon
Recording to second internal drive, 1tb 3gbps 7200RPM drive
10GB RAM
MOTU 828 MkII Interface

 

[beestigbeestje]

Silly question, but have you tried recording to just one disk, or just to your internal?

I finally found out via lots of trial and error that my problem was purely down to the disk being to slow. Basically topping out at 84 channels per drive.

Now I know you are only trying to record 16 channels, but maybe there is a disk buffer problem with using the raid configuration?

Just a thought

The latest session I've tried to record was on my internal disk. Cause using an external drive or my RAID configuration just gives me the same errors.
Presonus has updated their drivers and software a couple of days ago so maybe this will bring the solution ! It's still in beta .. but who knows.
I'll also try this "boom recorder" application.
I have another gig coming up so I surely hope the problem is gone by then.
I've also bought a firewire 400 to 800 adapter and see how it goes..

 

[beestigbeestje]

I'm curious if your Logic project was set to record to a drive other than the boot drive. You can check that by loading the song in Logic, and going to File -> Project Settings -> Recording, and setting the recording folder (under "Core Audio").

Otherwise.. hmm... I'm kinda stumped.

Mostly I do it like this :
I open a project "new"
I configurate everything so it see's my aggregate device.
Than I arm all of the track and click record.
Now Logic asks me to set the recording destination.
Than I record a piece, and save my project.

Sometimes I set my recording path first, sometimes I forget..

 

[noisegeek]

You still getting these problems?

Ive figured out that my problem was literally the drive was too slow. Ive got the external FW800 drive maxed out at 85 tracks, any more and I get the drive to slow issues...

Another thing to check is what is the cache size of the drive you are using? As this is as important, if not more so than the rpm of the drive.

 

[anp27]

I got the 'disk too slow' message recently... I mistakenly thought that the stock hard drive that came with my MBP Quad i7 was a 7200 rpm drive, its actually a 5400 rpm one. So I guess my disk was actually too slow!!

 

[Doctorbonny]

Thanks Everyone for the input!

I can assure u it has nothing to do with harddrive speed.
I still get the "disk too slow" error even on my 2-disk Raid harddrive

But, If I set the I/O buffer of Logic pro to 1024 samples, Logic does nog freeze anymore.
And if I record at 96khz , setting the buffer down to 256, the harddrive perfomance indicator won't go into red anymore.
But this I still can't officially confirm, cause sometimes it works, sometimes it does not, it is a very weird problem in Logic pro
I have tried Cubase in the meanwhile and have encountered zero problems.
I would really like to stay with logic pro, because of the plugins, user interface, bla bla bla..

I recently had the same "disk is to slow message" with logic pro 9, while recording 8 tracks with the firestudio. What I don't understand is that it happened after 6 months of recording in exactly the same way. After the first time it happened, it just randomly comes back, sometimes with a superloud blasting sound from the monitors

 

[beestigbeestje]

My problem has been solved

Hi everyone!

Just wanted to say that all is fine now since I purchased another presonus firestudio project. They sync and Logic sees it as one big soundcard.
Apparently, firepods and firestudios don't go well together.

It's actually the whole "aggregate device" setup that doesn't work well with logic. Pops and clicks and system overloads..