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  • Grey screening on the Mac

    P
    P
    Now that Special Edition is installed, I've loaded up an older composition, and removed all the old virtual instruments.

    Track by track, I've added new instances of VI for each instrument. In total, the piece will require 15 instances, plus one more for percussion (maybe).

    The mac seems to be crashing in two different scenarios:

    1) occasionally, when opening a new instance of VI and creating a matrix, the computer will grey screen. This has happened with as few as 3 instances and as many as 12. At this point, the grey screen telling you to hold the power button comes up. Once I've restarted, I'm able to create the matrix and move on to the next track - a couple of times, this has even happened in the standalone, without Logic running.

    2) I've now got 13 instances running in Logic. Every time I try to play the piece, within 45-90 seconds, the grey screen will appear. Every time. Also, at this point, if I try to add another instance of VI, as soon as I press play, the grey screen appears.

    In all of the above scenarios, per activity monitor, Logic is only using 400-600 MB of RAM, Vienna is only using around 900MB. Its a quad-core intel mac, with 8 GBs of RAM, and the library is installed on a separate SATA drive.

    I've verified permissions on all drives, everything is good. One thing that I noticed is that the library drive is not journaled - is this a no-no?

    Any thoughts?

    Thanks
  • N
    N
    If you create a new Logic sequence and load the same instruments, does it still crash?

    Logic sessions can get corrupted sometimes for no apparent reason.
  • cmC
    VSL Team
    cmC
    ptbbos, basically i recommend to have all volumes holding samples or audio data (except those used for recording with protools) formatted HFS+ not journaled.

    the *grey screen* usually points to a kernel panic - see your crashlog if any details are listed. i had this once with a grafic card (a legacy model from formac and during boot though) but have been able to locate the faulty device driver this way.
    christian
    and remember: only a CRAY can run an endless loop in just three seconds.
  • P
    P
    Thanks. I'll try your suggestions.