Digital Dust Sound

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dittocrush
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Digital Dust Sound

Post by dittocrush » Thu Jul 28, 2022 10:59 am

Alright ya'll I need help.

I keep getting a little digital static when I record, it's not a CPU thing, it's not all the time... but definitely enough. It feel seems to mostly happen when I FREEZE then FLATTEN a track, but sometimes it happens when I record as well. I've narrowed it down to happening in Ableton.

My Mac is brand new 2019, I use the Apollo Twin.

Any thoughts?

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Re: Digital Dust Sound

Post by [jur] » Thu Jul 28, 2022 10:23 pm

You might need to narrow it down to a deeper level. It can be many things like a plugin, or maybe some not-so-perfect settings with your sound card.
Which version of Live are you using?
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Re: Digital Dust Sound

Post by dittocrush » Sun Jul 31, 2022 10:32 pm

I'm not using any plugins, I'm at 48000 and 256, my CPU is at like 5 percent. I'm using 11, and it never happened before I got 11.

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Re: Digital Dust Sound

Post by jamface » Mon Aug 01, 2022 8:59 pm

Keep narrowing…

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Re: Digital Dust Sound

Post by dittocrush » Tue Aug 02, 2022 5:44 pm

jamface wrote:
Mon Aug 01, 2022 8:59 pm
Keep narrowing…
it'll happen when recording direct with zero plugins.
the crackle WON"t be there, then I freeze, and flatten and it appears.
I'm using the most updated version of Ableton.

it's easy enough to remove with "de-crackle" but I shouldn't have to deal with it all the time.

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Re: Digital Dust Sound

Post by creativespiral » Sun Aug 28, 2022 4:18 pm

I have been having the same issue... little digital pops/crackles in my recordings, or even just playing live with my instruments, monitoring through Live.

Using a WING with wing asio driver, 48000... and even adjusting buffers up to 512 or 1024 or 2048, I'm getting these crackles / digital pops in my recordings... even just recording a single stereo audio track. It's a weird intermittent thing... doesn't always happen, but its regular enough that it has ruined several recent recordings, and I've had to re-track. I don't recall ever hearing it before... not sure if its related to the latest FW for live?... but I did update about a month ago.

I also tried replacing USB cable to WING, using different USB ports, and adding a ferrite to my USB cable, just to rule out any USB issue.

I'm really not sure what I should try next..

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Re: Digital Dust Sound

Post by [jur] » Sun Aug 28, 2022 5:22 pm

What's a WING?
Do the crackles disappear when you're not using it at all?
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Re: Digital Dust Sound

Post by creativespiral » Sun Aug 28, 2022 5:48 pm

WING is the audio interface / main mixing hub of my studio. All my instruments, studio monitors, PA, IEMs are gone if I remove it from equation...

As mentioned, 48000 sample rate, I've tried increasing asio buffer up to 512, 1024 and even 2048.

When just recording a single stereo track it happens intermittently. I've had the Wing for a year or so, but never heard the pops/crackles until recently... which is why I wonder if its something in latest Live version.

Computer is a i9 12900k, 64gb of DDR3200, NVMe/SSDs for all the OS, Ableton, scratch drives. 3080Ti graphics card. I have also tried disabling windows security... but still having the issue.

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Re: Digital Dust Sound

Post by [jur] » Sun Aug 28, 2022 6:02 pm

creativespiral wrote:
Sun Aug 28, 2022 5:48 pm
but never heard the pops/crackles until recently... which is why I wonder if its something in latest Live version.
Could be the latest Live update. Did you updated anything else recently? Could it be a plugin?
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