I keep getting "Part of the project was not played" during playback

"This project has too many real instrument tracks to be played in real-time.
To optimize performance, see the 'Optimizing GarageBand performance' page in GarageBand Help."
I went to the help but I can't seem to find a problem. Running gb11 V6.0.5 on a macbook processor 2.2 GHz intel core i7 with mem 8 gb 1333MHz DDR3
I only have two "real instrument" tracks using basic effects....track 1 is acoustic guitar and vocal and track 2 is mandolin.
I must have a setting causing havoc somewhere i guess.....nothing else running on computer.
Any ideas on what i need to do?

In my case, the culprit was backups and disk-related software eating large amounts of CPU.
I recently ran into this problem with a very small project. Even after locking all tracks, I could not record all the way through the project without getting "project not played".
One pattern I noticed was that I could never get through the whole project when Time Machine was backing up. So I turned off TM and tried again.
Even then, I couldn't get all the way through. Running Activity Monitor, I could see that WD's disk software (came with the My Book drive I use for backup), would periodically consume a big chunk of CPU, even though I wasn't using the WD disk... even if I dismounted the drive. So I uninstalled the WD software.
With this change, Activity Monitor shows ~0% CPU. TM can still give problems, so I shut it down when I record.
Now GB runs fine, even with multiple tracks unlocked.
Moral: use Activity Monitor to make sure something isn't chewing up too much CPU. It may be an intermittent load, which makes it harder to see. But a big burst in non-GB CPU activity can stop GB, even if the burst is brief.
~2010-vintage iMac, 8GB RAM, GB '11

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This project has too many real instrument tracks to be played in real-time.
To optimize performance, see the 'Optimizing GarageBand performance' page in GarageBand Help.
This issue only rarely cropped up on my old machine, and it was usually because the computer was chugging away on too many projects at once. I am editing a podcast which has two (rather long) audio tracks.
I have quite all other applications.
I have fixed permissions.
I have tried from another user account.
I have deleted prefs files.
I have reinstalled Garageband.
Nothing is helping. This is very frustrating.
Any guidance you could give me would be EXTREMELY appreciated!
Thanks!
Evan

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I recently ran into this problem with a very small project. Even after locking all tracks, I could not record all the way through the project without getting "project not played".
One pattern I noticed was that I could never get through the whole project when Time Machine was backing up. So I turned off TM and tried again.
Even then, I couldn't get all the way through. Running Activity Monitor, I could see that WD's disk software (came with the My Book drive I use for backup), would periodically consume a big chunk of CPU, even though I wasn't using the WD disk... even if I dismounted the drive. So I uninstalled the WD software.
With this change, Activity Monitor shows ~0% CPU. TM can still give problems, so I shut it down when I record.
Now GB runs fine, even with multiple tracks unlocked.
Moral: use Activity Monitor to make sure something isn't chewing up too much CPU. It may be an intermittent load, which makes it harder to see. But a big burst in non-GB CPU activity can stop GB, even if the burst is brief.
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I played the song on my office Mac (iMac G5 1.6 GHz), and here's what happened: It played without any problems on the first run, from beginning to end, the cursor always being snow white.
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is there a way to remove this kind of stupid and useless message permanently from my computer?
It occurs rather often on my iBook, and it really makes me sick! Every time that happens I will have to press both OK-button AND space-bar to restart the song again.
What's that message good for anyway? Probably no-one in the whole world will be so stupid not to recognise on his or her own that a song has stopped playing! So is the message there to annoy people? Well, it worked in my case...
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