Apparently my new iMac can't handle GB?

Today I was just playing around with garageband. I have a Line 6 Toneport Ux2 and I was using two mics if it makes any difference. Every once and awhile it would say something along the lines of
"Disk too slow -10004"
when i was recording. What is going on here?

that can happen if other apps are using your hard drive at a the same time, it's usually best not to be running anything besides GB because recording and playing back audio can quickly saturate your available bandwidth,'
as well, sometimes GB just needs a chance to get everything loaded into memory. once everything is loaded, things may run smoother.
of course you've given us almost no information to go on

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