Garageband 10.0.2 too slow

hey! I have the new version of garageband 10.0.2 and it is very slow, almost in every thing I try to do the colored disk appears. My laptop is a Macbook Pro 17 inches. There is something I can do to make garageband faster ? this happens to me since I updated garageband. The older version didn't have this kind of problems. I'm on mavericks.
Please Help!

A MacBook Pro should work well with GarageBand 10.0 and Mavericks.
Do you have enough free disk space? How much RAM do you have?
Do you have drivers for audio interfaces installed, or other audio units?  You may need to update them, see:  GarageBand for Mac (v10.0): Unexpected behaviour with Audio Units plug-ins

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