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Old 11-01-2017, 11:12 AM
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Originally Posted by ChapinFan View Post
The things with the Macbook is that about every fifth or sixth time I go to play the garage band track, I get an error message pop up to the effect of: "Could not handle all of the audio." or something like that, and everything stops. I reset it and try again. Sometimes it runs. Sometimes it doesn't. So, if I can't always play reliably, it seems that trying to record and play is just asking for trouble... But IDK.
I've had this problem, and there's a simple fix. Garageband has a feature that allows you to "lock" tracks during playback/recording. Locked tracks are played directly from the hard drive, rather than uploaded into RAM and then played. This frees up RAM space.
I normally lock most or all tracks. The only drawback is that locked tracks cannot be modified. If you want to change anything (volume, pan, effects etc) the track must be unlocked first.
I forget the sequence for the locking/unlocking process. Looking in the Help menu should find it.
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