Looper - clicks and glitches and more clicks......!

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Rabalder
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Looper - clicks and glitches and more clicks......!

Post by Rabalder » Tue May 24, 2011 5:47 pm

The looper keeps fu..ing up the sound with clicks and glitches every time I press one of the buttons.
Does anyone have a solution to this phenomena??

Any alternatives before I have to go hardware???

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Re: Looper - clicks and glitches and more clicks......!

Post by Hermanus » Tue May 24, 2011 6:17 pm

hello

are you on mac or pc?

Pc side, try ASIO driver or in both systems, you can try to raise up the audio buffer size.

Personaly, everytime I start hearing glitches and clics pops in audio, it's the only way to remove audio pops.

Hope it helps


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Re: Looper - clicks and glitches and more clicks......!

Post by Rabalder » Tue May 24, 2011 6:28 pm

Mac..
But thanks, I didnt think about raising the buffer.

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Re: Looper - clicks and glitches and more clicks......!

Post by timh » Wed May 25, 2011 10:06 am

Hmmm

I get audible clicks when looper starts as well. This happens whether triggered by midi or manually. It can happen with an empty looper being activated and again when it loops. Have tried with and without fx posted before and after the device. This happens on my live set which has CPU at around 30% and no indication that disk activity is high

The only way I get around it is by looping exactly othe first beat when a lot is going on in the rhythm backing so that you don't notice the pop.... Really damn annoying though...

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Re: Looper - clicks and glitches and more clicks......!

Post by Rabalder » Wed May 25, 2011 12:09 pm

Raising the buffer size seemed to do the trick. Havnt tested it properly yet though..

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Re: Looper - clicks and glitches and more clicks......!

Post by philipc » Mon Aug 08, 2011 1:09 pm

I also get this problem. Raising the buffer size does help somewhat but it still happens. However, it shouldn't matter. If I can launch a clip via midi (or perform any other action) and get no clicks or pops then I shouldn't get any clicks or pops when controlling Looper at that buffer size. But I do get these artifacts, annoyingly. It does seem to be a buffer issue but raising the buffer size may not be the solution (I've doubled or trebled it in the past and it didn't help). I think it's a bug.

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Re: Looper - clicks and glitches and more clicks......!

Post by Hermanus » Mon Aug 08, 2011 4:08 pm

With my dual core(s) I've learnt to do some workarounds if I want to avoid audio glitches for big projects.

So it's also depending on your project size.
If you got plenty of tracks and lots of midi instruments, cpu is fragging buzy, causing audio glitches.

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Re: Looper - clicks and glitches and more clicks......!

Post by joaehun » Wed Feb 05, 2025 2:14 pm

still been having this issue today... February 05 2025. Weird they didn't add a fade in and fade out feature when recording on the looper

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Re: Looper - clicks and glitches and more clicks......!

Post by portalcreative » Fri Mar 07, 2025 8:41 am

I would love to find a solution for this. I notice clicks happening in the middle of the loops as well, not on beat. It happens when I reverse loops sometimes. Also noticed it when I added some plugins to another track while playing a loop back on a separate track. A click occurred which is understandable as the cpu lagged for a moment. But interestingly the click got embedded into the loop even though it was in playback mode. So, kind of glitchy ..:
I’ll try raising buffer and see if this helps.

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