Garageband slow to open with SSD?

[jazzer15]

I was wondering if someone with an SSD on a 2015 iMac and who uses Garageband could tell me how long it takes to open the program. I have a 512GB SSD and I noticed that it can take 7 or 8 "bounces" to open sometimes, while other times it will open after one. Most other things open almost instantaneously, so I was wondering if it is typical of the program.

 

[JustMartin]

Do you have a lot of plugins/instruments to load. My reasonably vanilla Garageband takes two bounces to load and that's on a late 2012 Fusion.

 

[jazzer15]

Do you have a lot of plugins/instruments to load. My reasonably vanilla Garageband takes two bounces to load and that's on a late 2012 Fusion.

No, which is why it is a bit perplexing when it does it (which is only sometimes). I just have the standard set installed and I have an empty project as the most recent. Is there a way you know of to completely delete and reinstall the app? It is a new system and I am a little tempted to just do a clean OS install just to see what happens, although it would be a bit of a pain to set everything up again.

 

[Erdbeertorte]

It takes less than a second on mine, so almost instantaneously like you said for the other things.

What version of OS X and GarageBand do you have installed?

And what iMac is it? 5K, 4K or the low end 21.5"?

 

[jazzer15]

It takes less than a second on mine, so almost instantaneously like you said for the other things.

What version of OS X and GarageBand do you have installed?

And what iMac is it? 5K, 4K or the low end 21.5"?

It's a brand new iMac 5k, i7 running the latest update of El Cap. and the latest Garageband. FWIW, the app runs fine.

 

[BrianBaughn]

When it's slow, check the Console to see if something else is going on.

 

[jazzer15]

When it's slow, check the Console to see if something else is going on.

OK, so just because I didn't have much on the computer yet, I erased the internal SSD and reinstalled the OS. I reinstalled Garageband and it is still showing the same behavior. The program usually opens very quickly if I have opened it recently (maybe it is cached?), but this morning it took 9 bounces to open (not really worth pulling my hair out over, especially since it seems to be running fine otherwise, but it doesn't seem quite right on a new 5K, i7 with the App installed on an internal SSD).

Below is the screenshot from the console. It seems like something isn't quite right, but I don't know enough to understand what this means. If anyone has an idea, it would be helpful.

Of course I can call Apple tech support (and I may), but it can sometimes take a while to get to someone at a high enough level that they might actually be able to help.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[BrianBaughn]

Your caching theory is possible. I've noticed the same thing on other apps, such as MS Office.