Kalle Rantaaho


Disabling the multiprocessing engine has been one of the most "popular" ways of getting rid of crackles. That has always puzzled me, as I've thought the multiprocessing engine should help to use the PC's resources more efficiently, not hog them. But obviously I've misunderstood the concept.

Same here

Running your audio from s seperate hard drive AT LEAST 7200rpms or faster also can get rid of the pops and clicks.

just another thing to try

CakeAlexS


Adding the multiprocessor engine setting was one of the first things I did when I bought Sonar X1. When I realised my crackles and pops persisted I did about a day of research and came to the conclusion that Intel Speedstep should be disabled (either in BIOS or Windows). Then Sonar rocked....

If I hadn't done that I possibly would have posted a new thread entitled "Goodbye" about a month later....

Worth noting none of these issues were anything to do with Cakewalk, it was Intel and my misconfiguration initially.
Of course keeping drivers and firmware up to date is a must.

Cheers

Alex

Too shy to go anywhere near the BIOS... tried it once, completely disabled my machine.
But I did run Uniblue's driver scanner and updated all drivers accordingly.

Thanks for the responses.
Oh, I also uninstalled X2 to see if that made a difference... nothing.
 
I just want to play my guitar and flip the switch to record.
Seems I spend 80% of my DAW time running down funnies and keeping afloat.
Not what I expected but, as they say, if you can't stand the heat...
Wish it wasn't so sweaty sometimes, though!
And Sonar is pretty awesome, nonetheless.
Thanks again to all.

Mooch4056


Running your audio from s seperate hard drive AT LEAST 7200rpms or faster also can get rid of the pops and clicks.

just another thing to try

Thanks, Mooch. I would not have thought that... in fact, I recently moved my X1 projects folder out of an external drive onto my C: drive in hopes of better performance.
 
Is there a wider case for keeping projects external?

These comments probably DON'T relate to what you're experiencing, but since in true Cakewalk forum fashion this is turning into a repository of pops and crackles knowledge, here are two issues that drove me crazy until I figured them out. 

1. In the Windows power plan, make sure that minimum and maximum processor power values are identical (e.g., both set to 100%). With a laptop, every time it changed states, I got a crackle in the associated FireWire interface. 

2. Don't use the USB port on your computer's motherboard, which is probably sharing its controller with hard drives and other "dirty" components. I installed a separate USB 2.0 card in the motherboard, and audio performance has improved dramatically. 

Hope this helps! 

One reason why switching to a single core can seem to fix the problem relates to other posts in this thread referring to the Windows power plan and speedstep, etc.

When Sonar runs on just one core, the workload is such that it forces the CPU core to stay at or near 100%, which prevents power management from clocking it down.  When the CPU is changing power state, you get clicks.

So, just as Anderton mentioned, it's important to change the Windows power plan following his instructions.

Anderton


1. In the Windows power plan, make sure that minimum and maximum processor power values are identical (e.g., both set to 100%). With a laptop, every time it changed states, I got a crackle in the associated FireWire interface. 

FYI I use the High Performance plan and I see that my settings are already at 100% for both.
I changed it to 100%, 100% for the other plans, while I was there.
 
Is High Performance the best choice for a DAW-only PC?
I got it wrong with the multiprocessing option - am I making a similar false assumption with this choice too?

I to am plagued with pops, When I am recording I probably don't get much more than 30 sec without a pop which records, so I have to keep punching in. I use to have a small prob with X1 with it. Never a prob with version 7, 8,or 8.5. Now X2 is terrible with pops and hicups. I hope they will fix this soon. Along with the small micro drag of a clip which wont move even with snap turned off. it just click back in place unless I move it further than I want. Again this did not exist in X1

Skarda: what your system specks >? guylemec: do you need help in the bios/speedstep>?