Crackle through monitors when triggering scenes?!?!

Phantom Cosmonaut · Post by **Phantom Cosmonaut** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:23 pm

Any suggestions/advice??

Sometimes when i trigger a scene i get a brief crackle through my monitors. It doesn't appear on the recorded track, but i can hear it live, which sucks, because i'm rehearsing for a live gig.

If i trigger clips individually, i don't get the crackle. I've tried using my mouse, and the touchpad on laptop, but it doesn't seem to make a difference.

Do you think it could be because of equipment set up? (ie: lappy too close to the monitors) or something to do with triggering multiple clips at once?

This is something i'd like to figure out before i start gigging.

I'm using a Presonus firebox for my sound card/audio interface out to Yorkville Powered monitors.

Johnny Beat · Post by **Johnny Beat** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 8:15 pm

Probably CPU hogging is happening

Overloading and stuff. What's your setup?

Phantom Cosmonaut · Post by **Phantom Cosmonaut** » Tue Nov 18, 2008 8:20 pm

well, i've got dual 1.66 processors, XP, 4gb ram, and i did notice that the cpu% was between 30-47% when this happened..

the scenes in general were running all midi clips (impulse, etc) and a few effects on each one.

if i group effects together on a track, does it use less cpu resources?

TroyP · Post by **TroyP** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 12:18 am

I've had this happen too, but haven't figured it out. Very random for me. Fortunately, it's never happened when playing live. Maybe because when I'm going on stage I get persnickety about turning everything off that I don't need. Don't do that during rehearsals. Probably the difference.