Constant "System Overload" messages on one song only

All my other songs work fine but I keep getting the
"Core Audio 'System Overload'" messages on one
particluar song. I have four audio drum tracks, and
one vocal track. I have two instances of Stylus RMX,
one Stylus Trilogy, and one EVB3. I also have a TBO
piano track which is admittedly a very large sample
and broken down into three EXS instances. I did have 2
instances of Space Designer but I ditched them in an
effort to get this song working.
i've been working on this track for longer than i care
to admit and i never had such problems but lately the
only way to get through the song is to have everything
frozen. I can get by with the Kick or the Snare
unfrozen but if i try to listen to them BOTH unfrozen
i immediately get the above message. Makes it nearly impossible to line the tracks up.
I run Logic 7.2.1 on a G5 2x2 w/ 4.5 gig RAM.
Any suggestions?
Thanks, JP
power mac g5 2x2 Mac OS X (10.4.7) logic 7.2.1 4.5 gigs Ram

somethings corrupted, yes.
to migrate: if all midi/Vis are perfectly the way you want them - use export in the file menu to render them.
if they aren't yet, make these into basic midi files and export the midi to the songs folder giving it a unique name.
all other live type audio files - vocals, etc. if cut up into small regions would be better off as one file starting at bar1. make these.
if using a tempo map, take a snap of it (jpg) for reference and take one of the original arrange page as well. just to be sure.
get one of the standard templates that come with the app and use it to start this new version off. there should be no file corruption there.

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have been using logic express 7.2 for over a year now, love it, never had to freeze a track. the other night i completed a project and did a bounce, closed it and went to bed. nota huge project, around 8 audio, 5 audio instrument tracks. ran the whole sessions with no overloads (in fact, i have had about 3 overloads in all my experience with logic). a few days later, i open the project again and now system overloads constantly. it also occurs now on other similiar sized projects that before had no overloads ever.only thing that helped was freezing tracks. i searched the forum and tried all the various suggestions, no luck.
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Article for those who hate Logic error windows
Seen in Logic Pro 9.1.7 on Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4
and Logic Pro 9.0.0 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.5
Logic Pro:
System Overload.
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Here is the configuration of my computer:
iMac12, 2
CPU: Intel Core i5 3,1 GHz
Memory: 4 GB
And here's a project that almost immediately stops Logic, all instruments and plug-ins with the init-patch, ie not the most demanding settings:
It's sad.
When this happened the first time, I could start the project only if the empty audio track has been selected, a track specially designed so that you can at least start the project. Then, this problem has evaporated along with the changing conditions of work and I forgot about it until the last case.
I was looking for the cause of the problem in the console and the system monitor for two days, and finally I found that Logic ping to the network frequently. I remembered the exact time of occurrence of the problem, and system logs revealed that the problems began immediately, as soon as I deactivate the service of the Internet.
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CoreAudio System Overload Messages

Hello,
In the attempt to create my first song, I have come to a major roadblock. I am not able to continue with my work because the sound breaks then stops. I then recieve the following message: CoreAudio: System Overload. The audio engine was not able to process all required data in time. (-10011).
When I purchased Logic, I believed that I had equipment that would be sufficient to run the software. I have an iMac with an 800 MHz PowerPC processor, 1 GB of RAM, Mac OS 10.4.8, Quicktime 7.1.3, and 36.4 GB of available disk space (according to the system profiler: devices: IDE (ATA-4) Bus: Macintosh HD) (I list that information because I am not entirely sure that that is where I should have gone to find out how much available disk space I have, so I could be wrong and if I am then that may be a contributor to my problem). Anyway, this meets the requirements listed on the back of the Logic Pro 7 box.
I am using the midiman uno interface for my kawai MP9000 which I use as the midi controller and the edirol UA-5 audio capture as my audio interface for recording vocals.
I am very surprised that this is happening to me because I only have 2 audio instruments and 1 audio track running (and only seven measures of it at that).
The two audio instruments are from the Evoc PS and Sculpture. My audio track contains vocals.
I don’t have any plug-ins directly on the tracks. However, I do have gain on my bus 1 which contains the audio track and Evoc audio instrument.
Still, when I look at the system performance window it is very close to reaching the ceiling on the audio side, sometimes it does reach the ceiling and turn red, but it mostly stays in the upper part of the orange yellow color and into the plain yellow as well.
I went to the Logic Pro Support webpage and found an article that addressed my problem.
I have combed the article and carefully followed it’s instructions. Here are the things I have done to try and remedy my problem:
1. I have turned off all applications other than Logic.
2. I have made sure that my drive is formatted Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
In Audio Drivers Preferences
3. I have set my I/O Buffer size to 1024.
4. I set my Max. Number of Audio Tracks to 4.
5. I have unchecked 64 Busses.
6. Since the Audio meter in system performance is peaking, I disabled Larger Disk Buffer.
7. I set the Process Buffer Range to Large.
8. Rewire Behavior is in Playback Mode.
And
9. The songs sample rate is 44.1.
10. I have tried highlighting an audio rather than an audio instrument track during playback.
11. I have frozen tracks that I am not currently working with (which actually does help alot but not as much as I hoped it would).
Under Logic Pro>Preferences>Audio>General
13. I have set Sample Accurate Automation to Off.
In addition to that I read some postings in the Logic forum and got the idea that perhaps it is because I am using an aggregrate device that I am having this problem, so I switched over to only using my Edirol as a driver in my audio preferences. This did not help either.
The article said to make sure my computer has plenty of RAM. Since the back of the Logic Pro 7 box lists 512 MB of RAM I thought 1GB would be plenty. But perhaps it is not.
For only three tracks it seems that I would have enough memory for the moment at least, but maybe I don’t. I upgraded my computer and gave it as much memory as it could take and I don’t think there is a way for me to give it more. However, it would be extremely helpful if someone could tell me if I have adequate memory to run Logic.
The article also said to use a disk maintenance utility to regularly check and repair my drives’ directory structure and to make sure that my files are not fragmented. When I went to apples website to find information on defragmentation, I found article number 25668 that says that because I use Mac OS X, then I probably won’t need to defragment at all. But maybe I do need to defragment because this program is so taxing on my computer. Will someone please tell me whether or not I need to defragment and if so any tips on going about that process would be helpful.
Unfortunately, I do not know very much about computers and sequencing software. I would feel much better if there were some local classes available for this type of work but I haven’t found anything. Everything I have learned has been from the Mac Pro Video’s (extremely helpful) and this forum, and a little bit from the manuals.
Anyway, I have told you everything I can and I hope that someone can help me figure out how to overcome this obstacle. I am really trying to avoid having to purchase a new computer so any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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The two audio instruments are from the Evoc PS and Sculpture. My audio track contains vocals.
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