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Saffire Pro 40- Pops and Clicks.
I've read the focusrite recommended support sheet, I've done the windows optimizations for pro tools as well. All of a sudden I'm having pretty horrible popping and clicking while tracking bass guitar. All the buffer size options still promoted popping and clicking. Not sure what to do. I tried another firewire port on my PCI card and I tried a restart.
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Re: Saffire Pro 40- Pops and Clicks.
Try these 1 at a time:
1. Disable WiFi (i.e. do all AVID optimizations) 2. Get latest MixControl version 3. Make sure MixControl set to internal clock 4. Different FW cord. Test other FW devices. 5. Not sure about that WD Blue drive.
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Re: Saffire Pro 40- Pops and Clicks.
Yeah blue drives not recommended and may not work at all
Have you ever had a good set up working with this? What about rolling back to 10.3.3 or 10.3.4
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Re: Saffire Pro 40- Pops and Clicks.
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1. Disable WiFi (i.e. do all AVID optimizations) 2. Get latest MixControl version 3. Make sure MixControl set to internal clock 4. Different FW cord. Test other FW devices. 5. Not sure about that WD Blue drive. 1-3 Already completed. I need to try #4 for sure! Great point! Have you ever had a good set up working with this? What about rolling back to 10.3.3 or 10.3.4[/QUOTE] Yes, generally pro tools 10 will run pretty optimally until I start running larger sessions with multiple VI's and AAX plugs. Rolling back won't be an option because I need 10.3.6 for the co install to keep PT11. |
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Re: Saffire Pro 40- Pops and Clicks.
So I just moved the whole session onto my SSD only. Still getting clicks and pops on playback and while recording. Wifi card was already disabled since I'm hardlined to the internet, but I disabled the connection as well.
Not really sure where to go from here, buffer size doesn't seem to affect the problem. Really sucks. Maybe one of the "Optimizations" isn't working well with my machine. Any ideas? I also tried creating a brand new session, still getting popping and clicking while recording. I also made sure the clock was set to internal on the saffire mix control software. Also tried a new session in Reaper, same problem. So we now know it's a saffire problem or something with the computer correct? Also tried switching to the "Legacy Driver"- http://support.presonus.com/entries/...-switch-to-it- To no avail! Last edited by ReachMusicProductions; 07-07-2013 at 03:09 PM. Reason: Additional synopsis added. |
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Re: Saffire Pro 40- Pops and Clicks.
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This will cause clicks and pops...due to audio thruput issues. Clock issues generally cause clicks and pops...... Try this.....Run w/o the saffire interface run your native computer interface. I am assuming your running windows...so make sure you have AISO installed on your machine....... New session and see if you get the same things......same audio issues....
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Re: Saffire Pro 40- Pops and Clicks.
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I meant that I copied the session to the SSD, instead of running it off the WD Blue drive. I also tried the suggested method, still resulted in pops and clicks. Thank you for your input though! |
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Re: Saffire Pro 40- Pops and Clicks.
If you have the Saffire Pro 40 selected as the Windows audio device, that could be a problem. Change the Windows audio device to anything other than the Saffire and see if that resolves your issue.
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Re: Saffire Pro 40- Pops and Clicks.
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I cannot even begin to understand why this is all of a sudden acting up. Just tried running a new session in PT11 as well. I also played with the Firewire Latency setting in the mix control panel. Seemed to help reduce the clicking and popping but not by much at all. Last edited by ReachMusicProductions; 07-07-2013 at 04:22 PM. |
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Re: Saffire Pro 40- Pops and Clicks.
Not sure if this helps any but we have 2 saffire pro 40s and an Octipre and every now and then I have to go into the Saffire mix control and change the clock setting to ADAT on our system. Still haven't figured out why it changes to "internal" on it's own. But I am also still pretty new at all this.
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