X1 and X2 worked fine but X3 seems to want most of my first CPU and I'm hearing little bits of static type noise. The noise is random so it's not in the recording. In other words, I can solo a track and hear the noise in various places, but if I replay where the noise was it's not necessarily in the same place.
 
I was hoping the "c" release would cure this but no dice :(
 
I'm using ASIO drivers and an M-Audio ProFire 2626 and I've increased my playback buffer from 512 to 1024 but didn't notice any difference.
 
Suggestions?

With Sonar completely closed, take a backup copy of your Aud.ini file
Delete the original.
Next time you open Sonar it will build a new one
 
This has helped to solve a number of similar problems in the past.

Also check to see if Trigger and Freewheel is selected in your Audio settings.  That's helped me in the past.
 
Another thing is to disable X-Ray.  I know that the Toontrack plugins didn't like that setting for some reason a few years back.

If it weren't just X3, the usual suspect would be non-Texas Instruments FW adapter chipset. Could still be a contributing factor and worth checking.

Thanks. I tried all the suggestions but still had some small clicks. I was able to eliminate them by freezing the two synths in the project. I've never had to do that in the past? The first CPU core is still peaking but not going red.

DesertHermit
Thanks. I tried all the suggestions but still had some small clicks. I was able to eliminate them by freezing the two synths in the project. I've never had to do that in the past? The first CPU core is still peaking but not going red.

 
Inside of SONAR go to Edit > Preferences > Audio > Sync and Caching. Set Playback I/O Buffer Size to 1024. Does this help?
-DG

Thanks, Dan. I had tried that earlier but I did it again to be safe. The culprit seems to be the Bass Guitar synth. If I freeze it I get no clicks. Unfreeze it and I get clicks. I'll be recording the actual bass part on a real bass tonight so it's not that big a of a deal except that I used this same configuration (synth bass to start and then replaced later) on many songs in X2 and never had to freeze any synths.

SI Bass? Or something else?

Yes, SI Bass

Any chance the output level is clipping? Any particular patch/tweaks?