Audio Mixer faders don't move during playback, but levels do change

Hi, I'm having this problem (FCP 6.06):
I've automated clip levels on my audio tracks with keyframes. Druing playback, all the audio mixing works fine, volumes go up and down like they are supposed to.
However, I wanted to watch it happen in the audio mixer. Expect, with the audio mixer open, none of the faders move, even though I can clearly hear the clips adjusting themselves properly.
If I stop the playback, and click around in the timeline, then the faders move to show the correct levels. But during playback, they will not move at all!
I tried changing the audio mixer Source menu, from auto, canvas, viewer, etc. No effect. I tried enableing the "Record audio keyframes" button, the downmix buttone, etc. No effect. Any ideas?

Hi,
I have the same problem.
I figured out, that the failure occures for sure if I speed up the video to > 1000%. The funny thing is that the video plays fine, only audio (musik track) stopps...
The audio track of the video (therefore also speed up to 1000%) is muted, and shouldn't be rendered, right? But if I delet this speeded up audioclip the problem is gone!
Another problem is the master-audiometer. It stopps working sometimes while audio is still playing. Changing the sequence and changing back again helps solving the problem for some minutes... boring.
What should we do?
I don't think that my pc is to slow. i7 980X, 24GB Ram, GTX 680, Raid0 SATA3, SSD.
Grüße
Johannes

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