For the Tracktion gurus...

[BentRabbit]

After some slight learning curve issues, I was feeling pretty comfortable with the free version of Traction, until yesterday when I started getting random 'pops' and 'cracks' in the mixes.
These are not recorded sounds, but seem more like the system is struggling to find the resources to play back the tracks.

This is occurring on songs with as little as 4 tracks and as much as 20+ tracks and hadn't been evident prior to yesterday.
The noises are not on the same places in the mix every time, and none of my other programs are experiencing this, so it appears to be a Tracktion application issue.

When it first happened, I would mute and/or freeze tracks trying to isolate the culprit... once it begins, it continues even if only one track is playing.

I have 'Use realtime priority mode' clicked on... I have my cache size maxed to 150, and have experimented with latency settings all over the scale... The problem persists...

Hardware =
Dell Inspiron XPS Laptop - P4 3.2 gig w/1.0 gig RAM and 80 gig HDD (not even close to being filled up)
I'm running playback through an SB Audigy 2 NX via USB and Edirol MA-10 Digital monitors.

Any thoughts?

 

[traidma]

Try to play back with 'end-to-end' option disabled (little 'e-to-e' click next to the master volume.

I'm playing back about 15 tracks at a time with no problems for last 3 weeks...

 

[pdadda]

A few things.
1. Turn realtime priority off.
2. On the settings tab, click restart device.
3. Try raising the latency slightly.

 

[pdadda]

Sorry, just read that you already messed with latency. It might be the SB. When I was using a soundblaster card, I had nothing but problems.

 

[BentRabbit]

Well, I bumped the sampling rate in Tracktion from 44.1 up to 96 and the problem seems to have resolved....

Cross your fingers.....