Well my fiddlings with various settings on #PopOS has not solved my crackling audio within #Bitwig (both Jack & Pipewire) so I'm going to assume Bitwig itself is prone to this.
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Rage Rumbles 🏴☠️ 🏳️🌈 🔞replied to Em-squared last edited by
@emsquared Buffer size is often the source of crackling audio. Play with your latency settings and see if anything changes.
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Em-squaredreplied to Rage Rumbles 🏴☠️ 🏳️🌈 🔞 last edited by
@Black_Flag Thanks.I think i've tried practically every setting I can and nothing solves it. Buffers, latency, kernels, pipewire settings, jack settings. I'm going to try a fresh install of a few other distros and see what eventuates as it's like unravelling a hay bale.
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Are codecs an issue?
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@emsquared Is the crackling coming with spikes in the DSP Performance Graph? Does it happen always or just with specific projects / plugins? What are your settings for blocks, samplerate, etc?
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@lionelb I don't believe so. Just realtime monitoring of multitrack audio. Was all fine until recently but looking at forums this occurs across many architectures for Bitwig the the audio architecture on many open source desktops really aren't designed for audio production.
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@icaria36 It's deff an "under load" thing" though recently I'm getting a lot of peaks before I'm even doing anything. It's all turned to mush.
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@emsquared I had these rather regular peaks out of nowhere some time ago. Do you have any third party plugin enabled? If so, remove it to see if it makes any change. Another suspect is the audio interface, if for some reason the samplerate etc values you have in Bitwig and the ones configured in the audio interface are different. In theory they should be in sync, but... What I did was to set the audio interface to its default values and then configure Bitwig at those values as a test.
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@icaria36 Thanks. I have very few plugins but will certainly work through what you've suggested. many thanks.
I'm certainly peaking madly under load.
