Why is Logic Pro stumbling and stopping?
On a recent project (see my last post) I ran into a situation where Logic Pro was literally stumbling and halting quite frequently giving me the standard (and far from helpful) “Logic is too slow error”. However, I noticed that if I stopped and started it from the same spot many, many times it eventually played through just fine. How weird! After much testing, I figured out what I believe the cause of this. This recent project had the following attributes to it: • I was running on my Power Mac G5/2×1.8 Ghz with 2 GB RAM • Most recent version of Logic Pro and Mac OS X 10.4.x • The project had some very long “songs” which were film scores, ranging anywhere from 5-15+ minutes per “song”. (I have multiple “songs” that then made up the entire project • The cues were all written in a classic “star trek” style, utilizing full orchestral sounds, though with sparse orchestration. Hence, I might have 40-60 exs24 instruments loaded up (many of them keyswitched samples from the likes of libraries