Crackles After A While!

[240v]

Hi,

I have Studio One Producer and a M-Audio Fast Track. When I'm working, it's all fine, but after a while I get nasty cracks during playback. The only solution I've found is to reboot the machine. If anyone could help out, it would be appreciated

If it helps, I'm on Win 7 64-bit and all the latest drivers

 

[somegeezer]

If you post an audio sample of it, someone could really help you a lot easier with something like this.

 

[240v]

Ok, it's gone right now, so I'll post a sample when it pops up again xD Thanks man

 

[Jekan]

Often this happens when you ask too much of your drivers (e.g. many tracks/effects etc at the same time).

With an M-Audio fasttrack it should not happen that easily. I can think of 2 things;


Have you set your driver in your Host to the M-Audio? (not Asio4all for example, and let asio route to te m-audio. This could be a cause)

If not, you can look into the settings of your M-Audio and play with the buffer size.(make it larger)

 

[240v]

Often this happens when you ask too much of your drivers (e.g. many tracks/effects etc at the same time).

With an M-Audio fasttrack it should not happen that easily. I can think of 2 things;


Have you set your driver in your Host to the M-Audio? (not Asio4all for example, and let asio route to te m-audio. This could be a cause)

If not, you can look into the settings of your M-Audio and play with the buffer size.(make it larger)

I use the official M-Audio driver (latest version).

I tried knocking the buffer size up, and it didn't have much effect other than increase latency

 

[dgatwood]

Check to see if your USB chipset is sharing an IRQ with anything. If so, change the IRQ steering so that it doesn't, or turn off whatever device it is sharing an IRQ with. Also, if your computer uses a USB-based Wi-Fi chipset internally, you might try turning off Wi-Fi.

 

[Michael Mason]

Windows Guide - Windows 7 Optimizations and Troubleshooting.

Everything will be basically the same. Set your CPU setting within the DAW to use 1 less than your max set at 95%. For example, if you have 4 cores, set your DAW to use 3 at 95%. That allows 1 core for all the other junk the computer needs to run.

Set your I/O Buffer to as low as possible for recording. Close all programs on your computer aside from your DAW.

You could also try using an optimizing program for gamers, such Vista Services (works with win 7), although it definitely isn't necessary.

 

[BushmasterM4]

Second the wifi and or network card. If they are not disabled they will cause click, pops, and other nasty things when they decide to startup