Logic 8 Audio Popping/Drop Out Problem

Hi,

For the last few weeks (since i installed snow leopard i think), i have been getting a lot of audio drop outs, where all of a sudden the sound goes dead and i get a popping sound coming from my speakers.

I am using a pre sonus fire studio project audio interface, with its firmware updated to the latest (the latest update was a beta snow leopard update).
I am running logic pro 8 with snow leopard 10.6.2.

I think i have narrowed the problem down to my presonus fire studio because i totally disconnected it and used logics built in audio soundcard and i didn't get any audio drop out at all.

I was just wondering if anyone had any similar experiences or ideas and suggestions on what is best to do?

thanks in advance for any help.

Tom

 

Yes i am about to contact presonus today and see what they say.

 

i don't know if this helps you but i found that i think it's a midi issue, for me personally.

I totally disconnected my presonus and used apples built in audio soundcard, ran logic for a good hour or so in the project that kept crashing and it was fine, then i re connected the presonus but this time instead of using the midi port on the presonus i used the midi port on my native instruments audio8 interface, and i have been totally fine since, touch wood.

I noticed aswell that when logic crashed before, if i pressed and keys on my midi keyboard that was connected via midi, i would get popping exactly the same time i struck a key on the keyboard.

I've installed the upgrade now to logic 9 so i'll see how things go.

My guess is apple couldn't give 2 hoots about logic 8 anymore, they're putting all there time and effort into ironing out the bugs of logic 9, so egtting a fix from apple is going to be a long long wait, if at all.

Hope any of that helps.

 

That is strange, i don't know what else to say, apart from keep searching the forums on apples site and logicprohelp's site.

Useually someone has had a similar problem.