Selecting Atmosphere track causes "Error while trying to synch Audio & MIDI

I have the strangest problem; I have a track worked up with a few channels of Atmosphere, no problems for the first day I worked on it (no problems like this ever, as a matter of fact). Somehow, though, now when an Atmosphere track is selected, hitting "play" produces all sorts of crunching and crackling, followed by "Error while trying to synchronize Audio & MIDI; Sample rate 41576 (or whatever) recognized, please check external device". If I select a different track on the left side of the arrange page, there's no problem. The problem doesn't exist with other plugs (Absynth, EXS24, etc.) The problem is exactly the same if I just use the mac's internal audio (I usually use 3 MOTU 2408s) and turn the MOTU interfaces off, so I doubt it's related to the MOTU's 424 card or interfaces, or anything that's plugged into them. Searching "Error while trying to synchronize" produces hundreds of hits; has anyone ever heard of this? And what's the solution?

I played around unplugging firewires and external drives and it seems to of cleared the glitch. It seems to be an issue with firewire but now I know the sequence which to turn everything on so far it's all good.
P.

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Hope this is a simple problem someone can help me with.
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I played around unplugging firewires and external drives and it seems to of cleared the glitch. It seems to be an issue with firewire but now I know the sequence which to turn everything on so far it's all good.
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Error while trying to synchronise audio & midi, Motu 828 mkII

Hi, I've tried lots of things before posting this but am running out of ideas - any help appreciated.
Since upgrading from Tiger to Snow Leopard, my MOTU 828mkII has not been working right. The problem happens in Logic 8 and all other apps I've tried which use audio and midi. (eg Garageband, Live, Reason), but I'm posting here because of the specific error message which only appears in Logic.
An inconsistent length of time after opening the app, which may be anywhere from a few seconds to over an hour, midi input is lost and the above message appears in Logic - though midi output remains working. Often there is a brief high frequency noise at the moment this happens, otherwise audio playback is unaffected even though in Logic the screen freezes until I clear the error message. If I'm recording audio, there is a brief interruption in the recording. Then the message reappears several times in quick succession. The only way to restore midi input is to quit and relaunch the app. Also Logic sometimes crashes on quitting, which of course may be an unrelated issue.
Before installing Snow Leopard I cloned my internal (Tiger) drive to an external LaCie firewire drive and if I boot from that on the same computer everything works fine. There is also no problem on my partner's Macbook Pro running Snow Leopard (installed from the same family pack).
MOTU tech support have been pretty useless, though I've tried all the tricks suggested by them like toggling optical inputs and resetting. I've tried changing FW cables, and running with nothing else plugged in at all. I've re-installed the combined OS update and I'm using the latest drivers. I've also trashed all the MOTU preference files, as well as the system audio device settings preference files. Oh and this happens even if I open a new project and have just 1 audio track and no plugins.
The only thing I can think of now is that something got corrupted when I migrated everything back from the cloned drive after installing Snow Leopard, and I need to erase and re-install everything, but if anyone can suggest anything else to try first I'm all ears!
Thanks for reading this - a bit lengthy but I've tried to give all the info I have.
Kit

Sounds like the MOTU needs to be reset.
Did you leave the MOTU unit plugged in via Firewire when you did the OS upgrade?
Not a good idea as the upgraded system Firewire interface has to initialize and often this sends out a bit of random data.
Disconnect the firewire cable from the 828mkII
Press the Setup knob
Turn the Setup knob all the way to the right, (to Factory Default)
Press the Select knob
Press the Value knob
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Solution for "Error while trying to synchronize Audio and MIDI" and "System Overload" messages

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.
The audio engine was not able to process all required data in time.
(-10011)
Error while trying to synchronize Audio and MIDI.
Sample Rate xxxxx recognized.
Check conflict between Logic Pro and external device.
The search in the help given as follows: overload occurs when you use a lot of tracks and a lot of effects on them, and the synchronization is lost when the selected MIDI track for recording or playback. Yes, this is all that is written in the resources. And here are useful tips that have been found:
The Bounce function allows the entire instrument track to be recorded as an audio file. This bounced audio file can then be used (as an audio region) on a standard audio track, allowing you to reassign the available processing power for further software instrument tracks. For more details, see "Bouncing Your Project."
You can also make use of the Freeze function to capture the output of a software instrument track, again saving processing power. For details, see "Freezing Tracks in the Arrange Area."
These tips - about the timing. About overload - there are no tips, except as "reducing the number of plug-ins" and "increasing latency". Zero useful tips - I got two errors in the test project with a blank audio track with no effects, MIDI drums and standard synthesizer, it was no aux buses, and the entire project was only a single plugin in the master track.
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.
Solution: enable the Internet, or add a new network service on a computer with no Internet. I just created the Ethernet connection to the ip address 1.0.0.0
Logic immediately began to sing.

Hi gabaghoul
Yes, it worked for me on four different OS and Logic versions (10.6 - 10.8 and 9.0 - 9.1.6)
It does not work in some cases, hard enough to tell in which one, but you can try, it very easy: go to the net settings and create new Ethernet connection to the ip address 1.0.0.0 and connect LAN cable to the port.
Also you can try to figure out what happens in your system while Logic error occured - fot that you just start Console and search "logicpro"
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Hello,
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(rare?) Error while trying to synchronize Audio and MIDI.

Hello there,
My problem: Until today, I've been working with all my projects without any problems with my configuration, but today I've turned on the computer and when I play any project (including a new project with one or two audio tracks or the SAME PROJECT that i've been working the last night), 3 or 4 seconds later I get the fantastic and typical error from logic and an apparently more slow performance loading projects...
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It can be caused by a Firewire/USB glitch or power surge when powering up the computer.
p.s.
As a side note, I remember that same error.....
"Error while trying to synchronize Audio and MIDI. Sample Rate 41347 recognized."
From Logic 3.5, it's been around for that long, with different sample rates of course.
Back then it was from bad audio drivers.. it's difficult to pin down some of these errors as they can be caused by different things.
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