There is only a hnadful of things that can cause clicks and pops in recordings:headquest wrote: The click/pop situation is still happening though, and I suspect that audiobot may be right in pointing to the GUI issue as the causePerhaps I need to change the settings on my graphics card - might that help?
-processor being too busy to service incoming audio
-hard drive being too busy to write incoming audio
-system bus being too busy to allow processor, RAM, and hard-drive to talk to each other in a timely manner
-hardware interrupts locking the system at inopportune moments
-audio driver problem
The first three of these can be mitigated to varying degress by adjusting the ASIO latency.
The first two can be somewhat offset by temporarily freezing other tracks.
The third can be a little more tricky to deal with directly, but is often caused when the video card is hogging the PCI bus. There are well documented tweaks that can be applied to change the priority of the video card. I'll dig out a link if you need it. For USB based audio devices, other factors come into play and can make things more difficult still.
The fourth is basically a bugger, but shouldn't really be a significant source of irritation. Sometimes disabling certain hardware interfaces such as SCSI and Networking cards can help. On Win2k/XP machines, APIC should always be enabled in the BIOS - however changing the state of this setting requires a reinstall.
Sometimes simply moving PCI cards around physically can help though. I eliminated a rather annoying tendency for my SCSI card to cause audio dropouts by simply moving it up a couple of slots in my system.
The fifth problem can sometimes be helped by messing around with Tracktion's Direct Mode and RTPM options.
