Re: clicks and pops during playback
It must be 192 kHz day...
Well first question is why are you wasting time trying to work at 192 kHz? Many systems will fall over trying to work at such a high sample rate. For something you won't hear any difference with.
Clicks may be Pro Tools errors or clocking errors from your interfaces (you need to describe any digital inputs or outputs to/from your interface and how they are clocked). What exact interface and driver version are you using (hopefully the ASIO driver for that interface? What exact playback engine is selected in Pro Tools (e.g. you are not tryign to use ASIO4ALL aggregation). Normally if Pro Tools is having problems that woudl cause clicks then errors not having "Ignore Errors" checked would cause a AAE error to be thrown, if you don't see that it makes it seem more likely you have some sort of clocking or hardware error ... on output of you can't see the problem recorded in the signal.
Edit: Ugh a PC sound card, outputting a sample based VI (with samples recoded at what? 44.1kHz?) and you are at 192 kHz.. that is beyond silly. Get back to 44.1 or 48kHz and make sure you are using the latest ASIO (not ASIO4ALL) driver for that card... assuming it has one.
To exclude a Pro Tools problem....
How about you start over in less bizarre land, set up a session at say 48 kHz. Then do standard debugging and troubleshooting. And post a Sisoft Sandra report here. Make clear on which drive in the Sandra report you have audio/session and samples stored. Start at the "Help us Help You - READ THIS Before Posting!" link up top of this and every other DUC web page.
So you are running a Drum VI, not a MIDI track to an outboard drum gear... VIs and 192 kHz is an ugly combination of load on your computer.
Quite a few Pro Tools 11 users are reporting CPU spike issues, but *always* suspect plugins. You need to do extra careful plugin troubleshooting, which includes removing third party plugin files (including VI plugins) from the Pro Tools plugin folders. Trying to do any troubleshooting at 192 kHz is likely a waste of time, get out of that first.
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