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Don't use bluetooth and yes, whether network is on or off. Although, I've been running my system with various interfaces while being connected online without issues for years. In fact in troubleshooting this issue I've now (sorry for the repeat): tried multiple USB cables, including USB C to A and USB C to C tried the cables in all the available USB ports on my machines installed, uninstalled, re-installed the Tascam ASIO drivers tried with power adapter plugged in and with Buss power while on USB C - C connection I have done all the above on two separate systems, one a Windows 7, one Windows 10. I have tried all available DAWs and VST instruments on both systems. The problem persists in all scenarios. I am assuming there is something wrong with the unit.

...Actually, this crackle/pop situation, although not affecting playback or recording, is really becoming quite nerve-wracking. It was just wishful thinking that had me feeling it was manageable. So again, like the OP, brand new Tascam US-4X4HR. At this point I've: installed, uninstalled, re-installed the Tascam ASIO drivers changed out USB cables moved the device to every USB port on the computer (all ports are USB 3) The pops only happen whenever the application (CW) is, so to say, "grabbing" or "letting go" of the audio engine and at whatever buffer setting. So, for examples: whenever first starting CW, or accessing the Preferences page and making a change to the audio settings whenever toggling the state of the audio engine whenever adding a VST instrument (if I add 16 instances of the instrument with the "Track per output" setting, it pops 16 times) whenever adding an audio track template with a VST effect on in its bin whenever toggling the Record Enable button on audio tracks When I'm all loaded and up and running, recording or playing back, as I say, no issues. But it is pretty startling whenever casually adding something or toggling an instrument or effect and to be POPped out of my chair almost. It is like turning on an amp and powered speakers straight on with all the volume turned up. It is, randomly, not always that loud, but sometimes is. I cannot choose to plug into a non-USB 3 type port like to OP did to solve his issue, but I have a hard time imagining a brand new, just manufactured and upgraded audio device, albeit USB 2, would not be compatible with modern, backwards compatible, USB 3 ports! I have never had this issue with any of my previous audio interfaces and this same system. If I hook my Steinberg UR22 back up, there is not this issue, but then I don't have the 4 inputs which is why I bought the Tascam to begin with. Does this particular type of "popping when accessing" shine a light on any bright ideas??

Still using it? The Tascam US 4X4HR, you mean? Yes. I only just got it, and except for the odd issue I mention above, I'm pretty pleased with it!

Wow, that's great ! I'm glad you got that worked out! My own pop/crackle situation remains. However it's just an annoyance, not a show stopper as it doesn't happen when playing back or recording. It is strange, though. I've never really had this issue before. I can now say it's pretty consistent, whenever first accessing the audio device, or whenever rendering a track or clip (at beginning and end), or as I said just toggling the audio engine on and off. And the previous "fix" I mentioned was just wishful thinking. Unfortunately, plugging the device into a USB 2 only port is not an option as my machine has only USB 3 ports. Strange, but not the worst....

I, too, just got the US HR 4X4 from Tascam and am very happy with it so far. I've tested it out on two machines both running Cakewalk by Bandlab, one still on Win 7 and the other Win 10. I have no performance issues with it, certainly nothing like what you describe, @johnchowseymour. (unless I try and use it with its buffer size set down at it's lower end, like 4 samples!) I do, however, sometimes notice one single little (sometimes not so little) pop or crackle whenever the device is first accessed, like when just starting CW or whatever other audio program set to use the device. This crackle/pop can be replicated in CW, for example, by simply toggling the audio engine button on and off in the control bar. It seems that if I reset the buffer setting in the US-HR settings panel, even back to the same setting, this will clear the issue. I know this doesn't help for the original post issue. I would definitely follow the Tascam install instructions to the letter, and follow the advice of others above here. The unit definitely works very well for me and my CW setup. Very happy I got it!

I have found this to be the case as well. Auto-saving set to 0 changes and time based only, and auto-saving still happens outside of the time limit.

All this is good to know. Dunno why I didn't see this before as I did a search on this forum for UMC404HD, but perhaps I typed it wrong, cuz nothing came up. Anyway, good to know. Tanks!

Thank you. Yes, I am looking at their UMC404HD. So their "UMC Driver 4.59.0" is a native ASIO driver? There is no indication of this, and the only mention of ASIO on their site that I can find is for the ASIO4All driver, which is all over the place there. I'm happy to believe you, tho. You have one of these devices, @Canopus ?

There seem to be many posts here mentioning the desirability (or un-) of either of these subjects. The Behringer interfaces offer a hard to ignore economical option for an additional interface for whatever reason, especially in the more than 2 inputs range. I started looking into them and was surprised to find that Behringer does not provide native ASIO drivers for their interfaces and instead "provides" Asio4All drivers! I took this is a bad sign and a reason to avoid. But so often here I've seen the Behringer interfaces being trumpeted as a great option, I'm wondering what the actual experiences have been on this drivers front. Please assume a desire for live input with monitoring, overdubbing, etc. I don't want to use Asio4All for the reasons discussed elsewhere, and I consider not using ASIO drivers to be a downgrade and only acceptable when mobile recording (with laptop on-board audio) and/or not dependent on live overdubbing, etc. Is this still the right attitude to have? Opinions and experience are welcome...

My big question now with this (as it continues to be a problem) is how to export an MP4 video from Cakewalk. CW offers this as an option in its export window but I have never been able to get it to work. It always fails when attempting to export with the attached error. Needless to say, I have plenty of room on the drive(s), I make no change to the built-in MP4 export preset, and I have no problem playing MP4s, nor do I have any issue exporting MP4s from other applications that are made to do so. I can export to WMV but need to deliver to clients in MP4. Of course, I can export from CW in WMV and then use a convertor to MP4 for delivery. But must I ? Cakewalk offers it, so what else do I need to do to improve my efforts to export in MP4 with CW??

Oh, right! But if I'm already acting on an envelope there is no need to shift click before right click/delete. I thought it was some special "don't ghost this envelope" function. ?

I, too, am plagued by these ghosty, hanger-on envelopes, especially with automated plug-ins. Sometimes they even seem to leave "orphaned data" behind, besides the ghosted orphan envelope on the main track.

What does SHIFT-clicking the envelope do, as opposed to just right clicking and choosing delete?

Yup, I am aware of those posts as well. ? But I am not one of those rubes who expects the computer to do everything for me. I don't mind doing the work at all. Nor do I mind using tape, by the way. It's the menial, repetitive processes that it's nice to have the ol' computer just do without issue. We begin to expect the machine to do exactly what we are thinking with hardly any interaction at all ! It's easy to forget sometimes that every action has to be coded before we think of it. If only every process could have a key binding! This is where the AutoHotKey is a good idea, if one wants to spend the time with that at first.

Yup. I get both of those. OK. Thanks again.

There's a good idea! I did actually have a go at AutoHotKey some years ago. It would pay to check it out again, thanks. I suppose if you are suggesting this, @scook,than there is no way within CW to "Save track as default template" similar to "Normal.cwt" for projects. Not a problem. Just another idle Saturday question.

I forgot to write, "I am not complaining" in the original post. I certainly didn't mean to make it sound like a big deal. It's just one of the many little things that could save a couple steps and help the fading memory! ? I assumed there would be a way and I didn't know what it was, is all. It is almost a genetic physical, and system 1 thinking response for me to quickly add a new audio track with the "Add track" function, and especially with the new(ish) add track "+" icon! It would be cool if the track that was added was a chosen one of my templates. Even though I am well versed in creating and using templates, I still have to stop a second and think with my system 2 thinking to remember to do that rather than just doing the (slightly) simpler thing. Again, not complaining, just thought I'd ask.

This is what I do already. But how do I make a chosen one of my templates the default that gets added with every simple, one-step "Insert" audio track command, that is, without having to choose "Insert from track template", and then go through my choices in their folders, etc. in order to choose one? I want to choose the one template that will be the default track that gets added whenever I don't go through that process. This is what I can't figure out. It is analogous to creating the project template, "Normal.cwt" and having that be the one that opens whenever we choose to start a new project without choosing a template. Is there an "Normal Audio Track" default that we can save, in other words?

There are some keyboards, at least, that support polyphonic aftertouch already, which, coupled with the software able to interpret it, would be the perfect way to achieve the single note bends like are so typical in performance of an actual koto (or guitar, clavichord, hurdy-gurdy, etc.), and what, no doubt, the OP is trying to achieve. The in-real-time, differential, single-note bend controlled by aftertouch on a keyboard is a capability that we have waited on for quite a while, except of course for the aforementioned clavichord, which has had this ability for six hundred years! ?

It is interesting that this fundamental effect, so easy to achieve and a core expression when performing on an acoustic, especially string, instrument, is one level that MIDI has been so slow to attain. I totally get that it's difficult in MIDI. I'm not asking why. And I'm excited about Polyphonic Expression and MIDI 2.0 (it's about time! How long have we been on version 1.0 ??). I'm just saying that it's curious that some things that are so simple in meat space prove so difficult in the digital realm.

No doubt this has been mentioned somewhere here and is in fact staring me in the face, but... Is there a way to make the default audio track that is added with every "Insert Audio Track" command (by any avenue of approach - Insert in menu, "Add Track" plus icon, key binding, etc.) to be one of the track templates I have created? This would allow one to add one's full chosen track setup to be added in one step. Specifically, I want my chosen ProChannel modules and their states (as can be saved in a ProChannel preset) to load in with the default inserted track. At the moment, as far as I know, I can "Set modules as default for tracks" within ProChannel which will load the modules but not their saved states with an "Insert Track" command, or I can include my chosen modules and their chosen states in a track template that I create and then add with a multi-step "Insert track from template" command, but I can not combine the two for a one-step track insert. More specifically, I want this so that I can have my preferred additions to the FX Chain module and my preferred type of Console Emulator load with the default PC strip in the default track insert without having to remember to choose and load a template every time, a minor inconvenience to be sure, but just curious. Ideas? Has it been staring me in the face all along?

Do you as CW staff or does anyone else at CW have an opinion about it's use on non-legal grounds, i.e. ethical or logistical? Could it be a detriment, inhibit, or break stuff within Cakewalk's functionality?

For anyone looking in here with similar concerns, I reached out to CW Support on this and got a response saying that: So be it.

I also love and am absolutely floored by Melodyne 5 (I have the Studio version now)! I find myself working in the stand alone to get the full fluidity of it, but the integration with CW is a huge plus, if a bit quirky at times. I can't really compare it to previous vers. as I've only really dived into it deeply since upgrading as opposed to just using the basic functions within CW in the past. A quirk for me, when working within CW, I have discussed a bit in this post (sorry if it's a bit confusing as one of the issues discussed became a non-issue). This is summarized as being a problem when choosing "Follow host tempo" with a Melodyne tempo analyzed region. I'm not sure if it's something in my setup, or misapprehending what should be happening, or if it is indeed a "bug", but I have found ways to work around it for now. I have also noticed minor issues with another ARA integrated application (SpectraLayers) working within Cakewalk, so perhaps there are just still some kinks in the whole ARA structure still at this point. But all this aside, Melodyne 5 is truly mind-blowing in what it achieves.

I had started this as a simple question in Q & A, but it seems that it is more appropriately an issue to be reported. So... When using SpectraLayers in Cakewalk in the ARA mode, keystrokes performed while in the SpectraLayers window are not given to that application. In other words, any SL specific keyboard shortcuts are sent as CW shortcuts (key bindings), and numerical data entry keystrokes are likewise seen as CW shortcuts. Examples: using Ctrl-Z to UNDO my last edit in Spectral Layers will actually undo the adding of the Region FX (i.e., my last action in the Cakewalk environment), thereby removing Spectral Layers and all my edits therein however many I have done at that point! (this one is a major bummer after many edits!) highlighting a data entry point in the Spectral Layers window in order to type in a numerical value for the setting will not enter my typed value but rather successively choose the CW Screensets associated with the typed numerals I had hoped in my Q&A query that there was some setting in CW such as the plug-in windows' "Give all keystrokes to plug-in", but it seems it might be more an ARA "bug". Dunno. So, reporting here and sending support ticket as well...