Audio export snaps & crackles -omnisphere

I am a new Omnisphere user (latest version 1.5) and I love it. However I went to export my first project using it and I have snaps & crackles in the audio. I went to the spectrasonics support knowledge base and turned off the X-Ray option and adjusted my latency, and buffer sizes as suggested, no limits on samples and have even tried streaming on/off but with no results. Everything runs smooth and fast up to the audio. Any other suggestions/work-around to prevent this? without a fix this is a useless plug-in. I have also tried audio with a single track instance of omnisphere with same results, so I know this is the problem. Below are my specs. Thanks in advance 

Specs:
Sonar X1d producer expanded build 535 - 64 bit Windows 7 Home Premium SP1
HP 520-1050
Intel Core i5-2400S @2.50GHz
6 GB RAM
64 bit OS

Hard Drive speed 7200
Steam engine and library housed in main HD

Thanks Jimbo for responding. I am running 1.5.6D 64 bit for omnisphere. As for freezing, I get the same crackles and pops when I do this. Since you said you do not have issues how much different is your computer's specs from mine?

thanks

I have 12 gigs of ram,  i7 920 @ 2.67 ghz on Vista.  I'm not a computer geek, so I'm not sure (except for the ram) if my system is better or worse.  I bought my computer in 2009.

The thing is, it is common for pops an crackles during playback to happen and mix down to be fine.   So your issue is kinda crazy backwards.

I would try messing with the freeze options.  Perhaps uncheck the fast bounce option.  Although my setting have the fast bounce option, single bounce per track, track fx all checked and a freeze trail duration of 5.000 seconds.

Hope I'm helping and not sending you on a wild goose chase.

 

Yes,  Project M has an excellent idea.  The only problem again,  it should help playback tremendously,  mixdown should not be a problem.
 
 
**EDIT...I saw Project M's link.  Yes it could be a mixdown problem!  Good catch.

...and I do have 3 hard drives in my system. I put different libraries on different drives.

it may be a long shot but .. 

I've noticed that Omnisphere tends to crackle when Sonar driver is set to WDM, 
(even if other instruments don't).... 

you might want to make sure you're using a ASIO driver (if not, check for ASIO4all)

Hope that helps ! 

Cheers! 

V

"M_Ormond Music"
and have even tried streaming on/off but with no results.

I'm glad to read you have tried loading your samples into memory but surprised that it hasn't made a difference. Have you reloaded the samples after making this change. The documentation is very clear on this point (just a heads-up in case you missed it). The snaps and crackles are symptomatic of a struggling hard drive and loading the samples in memory (assuming you had enough to work with in that particular project) should of made a difference (a big difference IMHO). I'm perplexed by this. 

I fixed the issue when exporting audio - unchecked fast bounce, checked the live input, under the bounce settings source category I selected the omnisphere tracks. I also moved my STEAM folder from my main hard drive to my external one. I also changed the audio driver I was using. Apparently I was using MME, not ASIO. However, once ASIO was set I still had to adjust latency to get the crackling sound to go away. Happy this is fixed now. Many thanks to all of you for your input and wisdom.