Audio crackling during preview

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NateHorn
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Audio crackling during preview

Post by NateHorn » Sun Aug 21, 2022 7:41 am

Have had an issue crop up this morning seemingly out-of-the-blue.

I'm working on a recording from yesterday but when listening to the audio within Ableton I'm getting lots of nasty crackling and popping. I was worried at first it was an issue with the recording but when it's exported its fine, and I can't see anything in the spectrum itself.

CPU load is very low, its literally just playing back a recording, no VST use etc, and it's a powerful machine. No warping on the track.

Nothing has changed on my system since the track was originally recorded and this issue wasn't present yesterday morning. No driver or software changes in that time. I'm a fairly experienced Ableton user that has done several hundred recordings in the past.

I've tried restarting my machine etc. all the obvious stuff.

Other than buffer size/CPU load is there anyhting else able to cause this strange playback issue?

Edit: Turned out I'd somehow gotten myself onto MME/DirectX 'Wave', instead of 'DX' (I only use ASIO when using the interface). This turned everything into garbage apparently.

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