Reaper clicks

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I have a Reaper recording (my first large one with 60 tracks). I have about 4 clicks on the recording. However, when I increase the buffer size (even up to 2048) the clicks do not go away. Also, the “Flash Transport yellow…” in ON, but there are no yellow flashes when the clicks occur. How can I remove the clicks. Many thanks, Brian
 
Are the clicks always in the same place? If so, they are probably on the recording. You could remove them using an interpolate tool in something like Izotope RX, Adobe Audition or Acon Acoustica (maybe even Audacity although I've not checked). I also have a method for removing them in Reaper by splitting the item at the click and then using stretch markers to move the click out of view - for a difficult click this sometimes works better than all the expensive tools.
 
These are on a recording which I received. As the recording has numerous instrument and vocal tracks, I think I will simply leave them there. I do not feel competent, as a newbie, to get into too much technical activity with Reaper just yet ! Many thanks for your (fast) reply. Brian
 
Why not save a copy of the whole project and try a few things as suggested. If you muff it up you still have the original to fall back on, no harm done, and you might learn a new trick
just a thought
 
Great idea. Will do ! Absolutely no harm in trying anything so long as I have a safe original. Brian
 
Ya whenever I do a major edit I save it as, and go right to it. Just make sure to confirm you have the 2 separate projects before proceeding
Guy
 
Always work on a backup copy of the project.

You can bring a copy of the offending wav file into Audacity, zoom in to the point that you see "lollipops", click on the little pencil icon to go into edit mode and actually edit out the spikes. You'll never hear such an edit. Then export the file at the same name, rate and depth as the original and you can replace the file in the project. I've done such edits dozens of times. Here's a before and after shot. Instant fix.

before.webp
After.webp
 
I've just checked and Audacity does have an interpolate function - although it calls it Repair.

Repair - Audacity Manual

manual.audacityteam.org manual.audacityteam.org

This is probably the cheapest way of fixing things provided the click is less than 128 samples long. Other software can fix longer clicks.
 
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