Cubase 9 Pro-Audio Pops and Crackles During Playback

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Hey everyone:

I did the upgrade from 8 Pro to 9 pro yesterday and I am getting ramdom crackles and pops during playback of my new session. I created a new template from scratch and this is not an older session coming from 8 pro but a brand new song. My buffer is set to it’s highest at 2048 and I am using a Universal Audio Apollo interface. this new session has no plugins in it right now so it’s not anything to do with that. I have a new Mac Pro so the computer has a ton of horse power. Any idea why this is happening? I have shut down and re-booted a few times to see if it would clear up but no luck.

I have also been using Presonus Studio One for years and I never have this issue with that DAW so I am fairly certain it’s a Cubase issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

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Have you done any editing of the audio, particularly warping/quantizing? I’ve noticed that Warping causes pops and clicks in C9 and have posted about it in the Issues section; it seems to be a legit defect.

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HI Jack,

no nothing like that at all. these are simple wav files that have not any any processing done to them.

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Hi davidvignola,

have you tried other block sizes like 1024, 512 ?

Regards,
Andreas

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Yes, I have tried a few different block sizes and the problem is still there.

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As I mentioned in another thread I have a similar problem on a PC. My buffer block size was 256. Increasing it to 512 has partially solved the problem. Now I only have four or five pops, crackles per day. In the same computer, Cubase 8.5 doesn’t show any problem with 256 size block.

I never had this problem before with any Cubase version and different PC’s. Never, except, obviously, with very small block sizes or huge projects.