Garageband won't quit

I had a problem yesterday with Garageband not quitting and causing several other applications to stop quitting after, and then not being able to shut down forcing me to hard reboot each time this happened.
I tried force quit and killing the processes from terminal to no avail. In terminal when I'd list processes it would mark the state of the applications as E (trying to exit).
Anyway, I finally got to the bottom of it this morning and thought I would post it here in case anyone else ever has the same problem. The issue boiled down to this: Garageband wouldn't quit when I had my Fast Track Pro audio interface plugged into my powered USB hub rather than directly into the computer. As soon as I plugged the Fast Track Pro back into the laptop it would quit fine.
This is quite annoying though as the MBP only has 2 USB ports and now one must be used by the Fast Track Pro and one by my powered hub.
Hopefully this will save someone the headaches and hard reboots I had to go through.

Hello dreake,
This may be due to an issue with Melodyne's ReWire support. While the title of the article linked below references Mac OS X 10.5, this issue has affected subsequent verisons of the Mac OS, as well, and the steps outlined remain the same for Mac OS X 10.9.5.
Logic or GarageBand may quit unexpectedly when starting with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard if Melodyne is installed
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA25071
Sincerely,
Allen

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