The Notorious "Audio Configuration is Damaged" Error

i've seen it discussed on every Logic-related message board on the web. no solution seems to have been found.
i've been another victim of this strange error since last night.
it happened while i was assigning a software instrument to a track.
i've trashed logic preferences, repaired disk permissions. nothing has helped so far.
saved the project with a different name. still the same.
a message keeps popping up saying "Audio Configuration is Damaged".
it pops up every time i change an instrument, track settings or open plugin windows on a track, or try to save the project.
i do eventually manage to perform whatever i need, but only after clicking OK each time that error message pops up.
what's this? any news on how to fix this?

Hi everyone,
I just ran into the "audio configuration is damaged" error twice tonight while working on a project. I wasn't able to recover the first project which cost me about 4 hours of work so I started a new project and after a couple hours got that error again while dragging a sample from the loop browser into a new track. I was able to load up a backup before I got the error, saved that as a new project file and apparently it's working again but clearly this is unacceptable.
I'm currently considering doing a fresh install of both Mac OS X and Logic Studio.
Apple, please look into this instead of archiving the threads related to the "audio configuration is damaged" bug. There are at least 10-20 threads already on this topic, yet they always get archived. I'm seriously considering ditching Logic and doing my arranging/composing also in ProTools from now on.

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Hi everyone,
I just ran into the "audio configuration is damaged" error twice tonight while working on a project. I wasn't able to recover the first project which cost me about 4 hours of work so I started a new project and after a couple hours got that error again while dragging a sample from the loop browser into a new track. I was able to load up a backup before I got the error, saved that as a new project file and apparently it's working again but clearly this is unacceptable.
I'm currently considering doing a fresh install of both Mac OS X and Logic Studio.
Apple, please look into this instead of archiving the threads related to the "audio configuration is damaged" bug. There are at least 10-20 threads already on this topic, yet they always get archived. I'm seriously considering ditching Logic and doing my arranging/composing also in ProTools from now on.

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I have tried all the hit or miss speculative solutions that people claim work for them:
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None of these work. Some people claim success with one or more of the different methods above but it doesn't work for me and many others. This issue has been going on for a LONG time and it is WIDESPREAD (just search this forum or the internet at large via google and you will see). It spans across multiple devices (iPhone and iPod Touch alike) and multiple software versions across multiple generations of the devices. I find it appalling that Apple is silent on this gaping bug.
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Are you senior executives in Apple's cost cutting in the customer service and quality control department or what?
+If it works fine on your friends iPhones when they come over it does not sound like a bug, it sounds like a problem with your iPhone.+
It IS a problem with my iPhone. Anything that causes one of the built in operating applications to fail frequently under normal use whether or not it happens on every device consistently is absolutely by definition a bug.
+Explain why the alleged bug is not on every iPhone then ? This is the bit that you fail to explain in every post you make.+
It may not be on every phone but it definitely is on MANY, what triggers it is unknown. Microsoft releases hundreds if not thousands of bug fixes every year. Why don't all the HUNDREDS of millions of Windows users all experience every single bug? By your logic none of these bugs exists because every single user doesn't experience them. I can't remember the last time I personally experienced one of the bugs that all these mountains of bug fixes I download through windows update automatically correct so I guess none of those bugs actually exist.
+I have read a lot more articles by people who think the world is flat and that means nothing. There are 10 million odd iPhones, 50 people isn't a conclusive fault. explain why 9,999,950 of them appear to work fine?+
There are thousands of people with this problem. With a problem like this a person with even shred of intellect would read a few posts from a few different sources and come to an informed conclusion on the issue rather than dedicate the next six months of their life to reading every single thing ever written about it. Once you see the pattern is exactly the same even in 10 plus posts and it's obvious there are THOUSANDS more you can conclude it's not an isolated incident.
+Thats hardly conclusive - there are youtube video's on how to make an egg custard but that doesn't mean nobody can make one without instruction, or that all egg custards made are defective somehow.+
Inappropriate and just flat out wrong analogy. If there was a "how to make custard when it fails in a specific way consistently" then your analogy would be appropriate. The "how to FIX x" youtube video is not analogous to "how to use your iphone" or "how to do x." In any event comparing egg custard to an iphone is clearly apples to oranges - or more like apples to nuclear reactors.
+Don't bother quoting Google Stats - you can get hits on every search string you put in, and one post gets copied again and again and comes up as multiple hits.+
Really? I had no idea google one of the most successful companies in the world had such a faulty and defective search engine that it gives phony results. Have you told them? Maybe they will hire you to fix it.
You may get SOME hits for any garbage you put in (not really ANY but a lot of garbage) but they won't be very many.
"asldfjla adfkjdsafd" - 0 hits (looks like you're wrong again)
"random string of nonsense searching" - 22,500 hits
"iphone "compass not working"" - 7,700 hits
"ipod "calendar not working"" - 4,570 hits
"iphone "calendar not working"" - 8,490 hits
"iphone "stocks not working"" - 3 hits (really google makes too many phony hits? Are you sure you dont' mean not enough - do you really believe only 3 people ever uttered these words on the ENTIRE internet???)
"iphone "calculator not working"" - 23,900 hits
"iphone "cannot connect to youtube"" - 980,000 hits
"ipod "cannot connect to youtube"" - 859,000 hits
Yep I see it, it's settled now. It definitely must be something I just made up. Looks like nobody else is having that problem. Must not mean a thing that there are more than 100 times more articles on this built in app than a couple others I picked at random. I'm glad you settled this for me how google is broken and only my iphone is misconfigured and the "cannot connect to youtube" error is not widespread.

Audio configuration is damaged

What does this mean?
can anyone help me with this, i was working normally with Logic 9 and suddenly i can't create more tracks and the output doesen't work perfectly

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Whenever I open the Youtube app I get "Cannot connect to Youtube" no matter what why network I'm on no matter how I'm connected. EVERYTHING else on the phone works perfectly.
Even the youtube website works fine via safari but the videos WILL NOT PLAY.
I have tried all the hit or miss speculative solutions that people claim work for them:
*Change the date past the year 2030 and then back again.
*Hard reset the phone
*Power on power off
*Reset network settings
*Full reset of settings
*Trying different networks
*Connecting to the computer and synching the phone and the apps
None of these work. Some people claim success with one or more of the different methods above but it doesn't work for me and many others. This issue has been going on for a LONG time and it is WIDESPREAD (just search this forum or the internet at large via google and you will see). It spans across multiple devices (iPhone and iPod Touch alike) and multiple software versions across multiple generations of the devices. I find it appalling that Apple is silent on this gaping bug.
Does anyone have a solution? Does anyone know how to get Apple to DO SOMETHING?
Thanks.

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I then reverted to a previous backup that I had on time machine about an hour before the issue appeared.
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Click on the link to see more details and screenshots.
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