Click sound when stop start

I know this has been addressed over the years but has there ever really been any resolution as to why sometimes, there is a loud click sound when you stop and start?

A lot of people say it’s no big thing just live with it and generally speaking I do find that that’s true but if you have a track with a delay on it for instance the click goes into the delay so if you’re trying to solo that track and work on it you get the click in the feedback of the delay and it makes it hard to understand what’s really happening. Plus it just makes me always think something must be wrong when actually nothing is wrong at all so it takes away my attention from my work.

It’s not a CPU issue or an asio issue, there’s no CPU spike when it happens, just seems to happen sometimes and not at others.

I wish Steinberg would address this issue.

Hi,
I couldn’t find related threads except one with no replies at all.
We would need a lot more info in order to help you:

  • OS
  • audiointerface and ASIO driver (another device connected?)
  • system specs (CPU, RAM)
  • more info about the track itself (routing, specific inserts and sends )
  • description of the project like number of tracks, huge sample libraries involved?
  • when does it happen? Twice in a row or just one time (power management settings in Bios)?

Thanks for the reply !

It’s more of a pop than a click, I can get that information later as I’m not at my workstation right now.

No huge libraries at all and my system seems pretty solid with an RME interface and using the RME asio.

One thing that it might be is that it might be happening when dragging loops from the media browser into the project into an audio track, now that I think of it that might be something consistent with it but I will have to check to make sure. Not using the loops as a sampler track and not even putting them in musical mode, I still seem to be getting the pop.

I tried bouncing some of those tracks and it didn’t make a difference and it’s not consistent.

Thanks again.

Can you provide the topics addressing this?

I remember a topic about clicks and pops in the timeline, but it turned out the artifacts were introduced through cuts in the middle of a period. Using very small fades helped.