Audio configuration is damaged

What does this mean?
can anyone help me with this, i was working normally with Logic 9 and suddenly i can't create more tracks and the output doesen't work perfectly

In my experience, this usually points to data corruption somewhere - who knows.
Try Soloing different tracks first to see if anything plays alright.
You can create a new project and take channel strip settings that you've saved from the old project into that and copy and paste the audio/MIDI data and rebuild what you had before, if it matters that much...

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