@jwildeboer Interesting. Still the question is how the money arrives to finance the development. There are workers cooperatives, where workers must provide a service and/or apply for grants, crowdfunding, donations... There are consumers cooperatives where members must arrive to a critical mass to make the activity sustainable. And many hybrids. You can have a cooperative essentially running the same not-for-profit business model than a foundation, internally organized as a cooperative.

@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.

@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?