Logic Freezing playback: please help :(

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Hi, i posted this question at sonikmatter as well, but i really need help here, and after reading this forum it seems like there are some pros scrolling thru here daily, so...
"i've been googling for a couple of days but have come up with nothing, and this thread seems full of useful knowledge, so i thought i would sign up and see if anyone can help me!
thanks in advance
ok, so i open logic, all goes fine, i start playback of my track, all goes fine... UNTIL it freezes in this one every time at 39.04 seconds: there's no new automation there, seemingly NOTHING that could cause a CPU overload etc that wasn't there 5 seconds before...
edit: it freezes by stopping playback, then having the spinning wheel for about 20 seconds, then logic seems to work fine (can zoom on the track, open piano roll, settings etc), but it WON"T play a sound! then i have to quit, or it quits for itself if i keep fiddling with the window for a few minutes...
i've been using logic for about 3 or 4 months straight and have had NO problems, except once or twice a "overload" which stops playback for a second, then i can just hit play again...
I havn't installed any new plugins, no new drivers etc...
i'm running a 2.4ghz macbook W 2gb ram, and have an echo audiofire 2 firewire A.I, running a number of plugins smile.gif
i've tried uninstalling a couple plugins, i even tried reinstalling logic (over the top of the current one (so, i didn't delete the OLD logic first)), have reinstalled drivers for my sound card and my midi keys, and have also tried running logic with both unplugged, and still the same problem, so it's clearly a LOGIC problem alone (not an external problem)
I tried resetting it's preferences by removing the preference settings from library, as somebody was told in another thread, but it didn't help...
any help would be REALLY REALLY REALLY appreciated! i have a remix due on the 7th, and it's 90% complete, but i can't export it or bounce it from logic!!!!!"
i recently updated my OS, and it seems like this would be the most likely reason for the problem... any ideas???
thanks a lot guys!
Jordan.

Answer 1

thanks for the replies guys, and so quick as well, just reading this thread i found out a lot of other logic stuff, so thanks for that!!
I've figured out the problem: I thought the problem was probably something to do with the 10.5.6 OS X update, so i downloaded the Combo Update for 10.5.6, since i initially only installed the standard "system update" version... installed that, re-ran logic, and it froze still, but this time it told me the REASON!!
it WAS a plugin, something's gone wrong with N.I massive, possibly due to the update, or some glitch, i don't know, but i removed massive from my project and it's running again!!
no wonder all of my logic tracks weren't working! rely too heavily on massive i guess :P
thanks a lot guys