Re: Download Serato Dj 1.7.5 Crackl
Ted Brathwaite
I am experiencing a crackling noise on the output which manifests after about an hour of use. It then gets worse to the point of distortion.
If I close and reopen Mixxx all is good again for about another hour.
I have now been running the rig for just under an hour playing autodj and the distortion just started.
I reconfigured MIXXX back to windows sound card and it rectified it.
I am now running it again and see what happens.
Hi DJ, many thanks for the suggestions. Will give them a go. I really want this to work as it is a fantastic program. I suspect that there is a conflict somewhere within the laptop.
Anyways will have a play around.
Will update either way.
Thanks again.
I see in that screenshot, you have the latency set to 23 ms and the system reported latency shows 28. I can duplicate this here with ASIO and ASIO4all, so it probably is the expected value.
(Anyway, 23ms is a buffer of 1024 samples. 11ms should be used for 512 samples).
Thank you for your suggestions, of which I have tried all without any success.
JosepMa your suggestion re soundcard sync seems to be near to the issue I believe. I had Mixxx working on an old HP laptop which apart from struggling with the loading of tracks, due to memory size, worked OK.
So buying a top spec laptop has now generated this issue!
I have played around with a few different drivers, just in case, but to no avail. (my expertise in this area is limited)
Did you rule out buffer size as the source of the problem? It seems to be the one thing constantly referred to on several threads on the topic. Did the problem still occur when using a larger buffer setting?
Then I cued a track and confirmed it was also distorted in the headphones. Then I mixed the cued track in and confirmed the main output become distorted. Thereafter, all playback on all outputs was distorted.
I increased my audio buffer to 46.4ms while Mixxx was still running. This had the same effect as restarting Mixxx. The sound output stopped for a couple of seconds, then when it resumed, the distortion was gone.
Same issue here, no answers for any of us it seems like. Running 2 FireFace 800's through adapters, and independently, they both work fine. But the second you try to use them as an aggregate audio device, it just crackles and sounds demonic.
I would really like to use the new M1 Mac Mini I spent a good deal of money on for my recording sessions, but I need both interfaces in order to do this with my workflow. Although the M1 is very fast and has a lot of pro's, it seems like they forgot to perfect the Core Audio or something with the software. RME released a driver for a 15+ year old product, but Apple seems more interested in shelling out new products to sell when they haven't even fixed the issues with the old ones we already bought. Very strange since musicians are a huge chunk of Apples demographic. Very disappointed that this seems to have no fix.
For me, I like to create an aggregate device so I can use 2 sets of headphones inside of Logic Pro X to mix my songs with whatever artist is in my studio. I like for them to hear the instrumental and their voice while recording, and I also want to be able to hear them as they record simultaneously through the use of the aggregate device that I create with the audio Midi Setup on the computer. So I add in my case my Scarlett 2i2 audio interface along with my pair of headphones(it should pop up as External Headphones inside of the audio Midi Setup app) which I plug directly into my MacBook and my artist that I'm recording will use the headphones that plug directly into the audio interface.
When you do this however, you have to make sure to tick Drift Correction for both of the devices that are being linkedor however many devices you may have. If you only have 1 ticked, then you will experience weird crackling noise when you try to playback things.
SO you shouldn't have to mess with the Sample Rate at all. Just ticking the Drift Correction box for however many devices you are linking together, and then properly setting up your Input and Output channels in your software and also on your computer settings in the Sounds section SHOULD FIX YOUR ISSUE. ?
I'm an audio producer so always hesitant to update to a new OS. finally updated to Monterey 12.6.Playback through my aggregate device is completely distorted when I play anything from Spotify or through a web browser (youtube, etc)I don't experience the problem when working in Logic Pro, or when playing audio files saved locally.
My temporary workaround has been to change the system sound settings output to a single audio device, rather than the aggregate, to listen to Spotify. This is less distorted, but actually still sounds pretty terrible, I think it's in mono actually.
Just wanna add to this discussion as I was having the same problem trying to create an aggregate device with my usb mixer/motu interface. Crackling/weird digital distortion. I'm on a Mac mini M1 running Mac OS 12.6.
The thing that fixes it for me is to add in my "Zoom Audio Device" into the aggregate Device. I have no idea, and it makes no sense (at least to me) but when I add that into the device, the distortion goes away and everything works as it should. Very weird!
All indicates it is a software issue and Apple Support can't do anything about it. I suggest everyone reading this submit a bug report so that sometime in the next decade they will care to fix this massively annoying problem. Bug report page: Feedback - Apple.
When I opened Universal Control, it indicated that it had an update available. After updating, each of my devices had a firmware update recommended which I also updated. After this, I restarted my computer and it seems I had to re-set up my aggregate device in the Audio-Midi setup, etc, but after all of this, the crackling issue has so far been resolved.
I get irritating popping and crackling sounds with primarily kick, bass guitar, guitars on some of my projects and not on others. I follow pretty much the exact same way of recording and mixing on all songs but have noticed that I have this problem sometimes. With the kick, it isn't even a real kick but the Session Drummer kick. The bass and guitars are real in the sense that I go through an interface and use amp sims and/or DI box.
I am not clipping on any tracks and I do use gain staging and a variety of plug ins. I have even turned the kick almost all the way down, in solo, and the pop/crackle is still there--same with the bass and guitars.
You need to trouble shoot the issue by the process of elimination. In other words you swap out components until the issue goes away. It might be a hardware issue like a loose wire. To test plug in a set of headphones. If the problem is gone then it's in your monitoring system. If it's still there then work backwards starting with your USB cables etc.
Thanks John and Pragi, for our replies and suggestions. I should have mentioned already that I am hearing the popping and crackling in m headphones. I do have old and probably beat up cables that I have stepped on over the years. I hear these sounds over monitors and through headphones.
Now, about the specs, I have the buffer set all the way to the left (extra small) and the default buffer size is set to 512 with 16 bit depth. I have played around with these settings and the noises did not go away. Driver operating at 44100 hz; 16 bit.
One of my thoughts on this is that I may have overloaded the guitars and bass at time of recording (not according to my inputs though) but even if they were true, why is the kick also popping? The kick is just a sample from Session Drummer. As I have said earlier, even when I take off any plugs and also reduce the kick volume to almost nonexistent, the crackle and pop is still present. I don't understand this. I am not overloading the kick--it sits at -18 currently and the gain is set to -6 and this is still plenty loud enough like this.
It said 16 bits because I forgot that I had changed it in an attempt to learn anything about the crackle--it is not at 16 normally. I am not using an internal card nor a laptop but I have long suspected that maybe my interface is old and maybe nothing special to begin with. I have been using the UX1 from Line 6 for about 10 years.
I don't know what else you would like to see but I will try to get you whatever specs you would like to see if it will help. Hopefully, you have a screen cap to look at here. Please let me know what you think after checking the cap.
Many thanks Matt! However, as per my luck with all this, it did not stop the crackle and pop. I really appreciate you giving it a try and I am delighted that it worked for you--you must be a happy person! Now, why couldn't it have been that easy for me, too (darn it)
The sorts of things we need to know are the specifications of your system. CPU, RAM, number and types of hard drive, operating system, audio interface (UX1) also, what you call a project, ie how many tracks/plugins etc. These things really need to be known before discussing anything about Cakewalk. If you don't know them then just the make and model of your computer will do. For example, if your UX1 interface is more than 10 years old, what operating system are you using it with, are you using drivers suitable for the operating system. It's best to check all this stuff out first before you go down the road of looking at software problems.
Hey all you guys, thanks so much for our help. Here's the funny thing--after reading tezza's reply, I suddenly remembered having this same problem about 5 years ago maybe. It's funny how we forget, but I am nearly 100% sure that I remember asking this same thing about the popping and crackle. What I determined last time this happened was that my system just couldn't keep up with all the demands that I placed on it. After I got a new pc last time, sure enough, no more pop, crackle and drop...up until now and here it is again. I have been putting off getting a new computer for too long now and that was mostly due to the hell of transferring everything over to the new pc. I was even on here awhile back asking you guys what you recommended for a new pc.
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