Cubase 7 Air Team Crackl
Jerry Bradley
I also have problems with strange popping and crackling noise MY Windows 11 i make The Waves SoundGrid is the main sound system for Windows
When any alerts appear from Windows, it appears with a distorted and annoying sound also when i make test in windows settings for output device the test sound like a digital problem
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@Ed Doll
I have gone trough all the steps you recommended me after I filed a request to the support-team.
It does not work.
It is not a Cubase issue, it is clearly an issue between the UR22MKII and windows 10. I have seen other topics on this, with exact same issue, and no solution too.
What to do but You making an update to the Yamaha 10.4 driver to help these issues?
Regards, Inuk
plays fine in session, fair amount of au and minilouge instances, but highest spikes are about 75% cpu. no crackles upon playback. when i mix down it's snap crackle pop. i increased latency, made sure that anything not needed was removed (background audio, whatever...) and have even started taking out fx. when i freeze, either an audio track or a midi track, crackle is back. totally discouraged with cubasis. tried everything i could think of for almost 2 hours last night. unless anybody has any ideas will begin the painstaking process of recording individual tracks into auria and be done with cubasis.
@vpich said:
plays fine in session, fair amount of au and minilouge instances, but highest spikes are about 75% cpu. no crackles upon playback. when i mix down it's snap crackle pop. i increased latency, made sure that anything not needed was removed (background audio, whatever...) and have even started taking out fx. when i freeze, either an audio track or a midi track, crackle is back. totally discouraged with cubasis. tried everything i could think of for almost 2 hours last night. unless anybody has any ideas will begin the painstaking process of recording individual tracks into auria and be done with cubasis.
I didn't read that article, but I have noticed when freezing tracks from Rock Drummer that too high input levels create crackles, even though playback doesn't. Backing down the output level of rock drummer cured it.
Hi thanks. Yes. I definitely will, that post had been sent in for approval before you answered. Will submit the formal issue on your forum and update this one as it goes on. I have an Ipad pro 12.9. Seems to be an au implementation issue. I found that the individual outputs of a couple ruismaker drums to be maxed, lowered those, (although full velocity should not cause distortion if the channel volume is set correctly). Also i took ddmf out. These steps were done together so not sure what did it. However crackling started in mixdown before any drums kicked in. Right where ddmf did. But definitely the ruismaker drums were crackling when freezing.
@vpich said:
Hi thanks. Yes. I definitely will, that post had been sent in for approval before you answered. Will submit the formal issue on your forum and update this one as it goes on. I have an Ipad pro 12.9. Seems to be an au implementation issue. I found that the individual outputs of a couple ruismaker drums to be maxed, lowered those, (although full velocity should not cause distortion if the channel volume is set correctly). Also i took ddmf out. These steps were done together so not sure what did it. However crackling started in mixdown before any drums kicked in. Right where ddmf did. But definitely the ruismaker drums were crackling when freezing.
An easy test is to lower the RuisMaker master volume (in the plugin, not in the channel) to be sure there's no way it can clip. Even if this is below optimal - just to see what happens. I suggest it again because I have seen this with other apps and lowering the volume removed the crackles. Its an easy test.
Yeah that has seemed to work. But that's manually compensating for something that is sounding well. If anything is overloading, like a ruis drum or a boosted eq then it should crackle on playback. On one audio file i removed all inserts except the eq. Still crackled. Then lowered the only little hump over unity (less than 3 db) and it froze with no crackle. So this boosting, in fx or au, is causing it......but the mixer shows it way below red even with the boosts. So there seems to be an amplification during the freeze/mixdown process. Also, with proper headroom i should be able to boost frequencies with the eq.
Ok. I've not had any issues freezing AUs apart from the things mentioned in other threads with the frozen audio being 'off the grid' when frozen and some IAA-Instruments producing silent output but those have not been Cubasis fault but rather the IAA-Instrument developer issues, even with IAA-Instruments the results are a bit off the-grid and it takes a lot of fiddling with the midi-delay values prior to freezing to get them on the spot (adjust, freeze, check, adjust, freeze, check until it matches). My temporary work-around is to use modSTEP to create audio-files that I can import to Cubasis. But I trust the Cubasis team will work things out all in time.
You used the Zoom USB connection? Did you go through a USB hub with other equipment? That can cause crackling noises in audio. USB Audio machines must have direct home runs to the computer. If you have many USB devices on the computer, see what happens when you disconnect some of them.
I have the same problem with Zoom H4N and never found a solution even those mentionned previously do not work. If I swith to a zoom H1 I have no problem with crackling or dropout playback. I think the audio interface of H4N is faulty.
Verify that the cubase project is the same bit rate and sample rate as your other audio playing program (Mine had to be set to 24bit 48000Hz). Also follow the other answers about releasing the driver in background.
About a month or so ago I posted a thread about crackling problems with my TI (when using Virus Control). I received very few responses, which I took to indicate that other users do not have the same types of problems.
However, I did some digging around the internet and found plenty of posts on other forums about the TI and crackling. In the meantime a couple of users on this board have also started threads about crackling issues.
At first, I suspected that the problem may be related to Windows 7 because I have had my Virus since 06 and not experienced crackling like this until recently. I also tried rolling back the drivers to OS 3 point-something, messing with buffers, bought a new usb card all to no avail.
I sent a patch to Access support along with an Ableton project file to see if my issues were reproducible. I would like to note that the patch that I sent utilizes many of the Virus' features that drain resources, and I selected this patch specifically because the crackling was totally reproducible. HOWEVER, it is essential to note that I have issues with MANY of the TI's presets sometimes relating to polyphony and other times (seemingly) not.
Jorg from Access music tested the Live set on a Mac and in Cubase and indeed confirmed crackling which he related to voice stealing. He also confirmed that there was no crackling when using the TI through traditional midi/audio outs with no Virus Control.
At this point, my Virus is largely unusable. I simply cannot get single patches into audio without crackling. Again, I am not simply talking about my hog of a patch, but many of the presets that used to be useable. I told Jorg as much and he replied:
Well, as much as I appreciate Jorg's sympathetic tone (which I take to be sincere), keeping the voices "low" is not a viable solution because the crackling comes on single low bar, low polyphony patches. I often can't use a unison of 2 or the analog filter (with no effects) without glitching.
At first I was worried that the problem was my Virus. However, since Jorg at Access Music confirmed crackling with my test patch (which is very resource intensive) on a TI2 and experienced similar results, I think the issue is Virus Control.
Oh and another thing to note is that the crackling is not as apparent when the filter is all the way open. Perhaps you hear it during automation because its presence is revealed more easily with the filter closed.
You know I am with you on this SOS judging by my thread started about PCI USB controller alternatives to remedy this very issue. I literally have no clue what else to say as Jorg tells me everything should be fine, Timo has no ideas either then 'try eliminating stuff in your system to see what is causing the crackles' etc. I have done so much troubleshooting on this, my head is mush on even remembering what I have tried there have been so many variables I have eliminated as what could be causing the issues. I am completely exhausted on this issue. It has consumed my mind so much the past while that it is a bit disturbing how much it has had an effect on my life in general.
I have similar problems.
I'm using Logic 9 and another audio interface (Focusrite Saffire pro 40), and I can't use the settings described in the TI2 Manual for the virus -audio when I have my Saffire running.
That means, I configure my saffire as always, plug in the TI2.
Logic then asks me if I want to use the "new audio interface Virus Ti2".
I say NO, because else it switches off my saffire.
Though I said no, audio is transmitted through USB, but in many cases jittery(crackling) . When exactly, I don't know. it seems random and lasts a random time, at least a few seconds.
This is why I mostly unlpug the USB and use MIDI cables and Audio outs. I can live with it, but I can understand that it might drive others mad
Anyway, it's a great sounding machine - but not perfect, then again, which synth is perfect?