Crackling noise

[Frank DeFede]

I am using the new Sonar free version.  I am getting fine crackling noises in my mix.  I have tried raising and lowering the buffers in preferences. nothing seems to work. any ideas please!

 

Thank you!

[David Baay]

Is this affecting all/most projects of comparable complexity? Are they mostly/all audio or mostly/all soft synths? Are you still using the Presonus Studio 24 or the V-Studio 100 mentioned earlier? If you're running 192 or 96kHz and the project has no recorded/rendered audio yet, try 48kHz.

Is your PC optimzed for streaming audio?

Ensure the following at a minimum:

- If it's a laptop, plug it in.

- Set Windows power management to Best Performance.

- Set onboard audio (e.g. Realtek) as the default device for Windows and generic multimedia apps to play audio.

- In BIOS, disable Speedstep and C-States (CPU-throttling).

- If problems persist, adidtionally disable Bluetooth and WiFi (at least temporarily to determine if either is a factor).

- If problems still persist, run LatencyMon to see what might be causing high/spiking Defered Procedure Call Latency - a measure of the PC's readiness to respond to interrupts from the audio interface requesting a buffer refill (not to be confused with audio buffering latency).

https://www.resplendence.com/latencymon

 

 

 

 

[Frank DeFede]

David, thank you for replying to my post. I am now jusing the Presonus Studio 24c. I left the house for most of the day after i tried this morning, and when I came back with the project still open it seems to be working.  I think I hear a pop now and then, but nothing like what was going on. I am still concerned about what was going on.

I will try some other older projects that I know were working fine and let you know if they have any problems. I will also follow your detailed instructions to see if any of that helps should the problem start again.

Frank

[AB99]

Are you using any plugins?  I had a plugin that would do that to me.