Crackle on Playback - Can't work out what is going on

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Hey all,

I’m using Renoise to play live and have a fairly large “live set” project file. Recently, I switched back from my laptop to an older but capable Ryzen 9 desktop to handle the set and updated to Renoise 3.5. My audio interface is a Roland MX‑1, which I also use to mix in live synths and drums.

Lately, I’ve noticed pops and crackles during playback. Here’s what I’ve tried so far:

  • Uninstalled and re-installed MX‑1 drivers

  • Changed sample rates

  • Switched between ASIO, DirectSound, and WASAPI

  • Audiobuffer is not low and the CPU useage is not high.

Unfortunately, none of these changes have made a difference. This is a Windows 11 machine, and I had to install the latest version when I started using it again — not sure if that could be contributing.

Has anyone experienced something similar? How did you fix it? Any advice would be hugely appreciated.

Thanks,

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What OS do you use?
On Windows 11 there’s a well known bug that causes such issues.
There’s a topic i started. Maybe you can find your solution there:

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Yeah - is Windows 11 - but its fine on other win 11 machines. Thanks for the link - i will check it out and see if that fixes it.

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I think this is OS or Drivers shit!

Under Win7 i had a latency from 10 ms! Under Win10, i not come under 35 ms. Same in Win11.

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This kind of problems came with the 24H2 update and later updates. Also a lot users of other forums reported such problems since 24H2. These updates even caused many damaged SSD drives out there. You can find a lot forums where this was reported.

You also can find videos about it on Youtube.

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Problem sorted! Has noticed that there were some Native Instuments, ASIO and Waves ASIO drivers installed. Removed all of them and it fixed it. Will have to remember if I ever get an old machine back in to service to check for this stuff.
Cheers