Crackling sound during playback on Logic, how do I get rid of this?

Odds are it is coming from one of those hippie/hoppie vinylcrackly drum samplies.

Jake, why are you so sure it isn't?

When you set the buffer to 1024, is there still crackling? If so, it would make it even more likely that you are in fact hearing sampled vinyl.

Have you tried muting your six channels one at a time? When did the crackling disappear?

Also: have you checked that you didn't stack up 6 basedrums on the same beat? I wouldn't be surprised if the crackling you heard is just the output, clipping.

How are your Mixer levels... are you over-driving the master bus?

Are you using a decent audio interface?

Also, CPU load? Holding down the Option key + x will bring up the Disk/CPU use meter.

If all above is good try increasing Preferences/Audio I/O Buffer, 256 should be good for solid playback.

Might give us a little more info on your hardware, Mac pro, Mac Book, Macbook_Pro... how much RAM, which version of OSX? Snow Leopard, Lion + version number....etc.

I just tried 6 instances of Ultrabeat without crackling, using stock samples.

This statement is confusing...

"It's not coming from any drum samples either, It only starts during playback."

So when just the Ultrabeat's are playing and the sequencer is not running there's no noise but when Logic controls their start/stop and the sequencer is playing there is crackle?

I've got the same problem. Tried everything and nothing works. This may not solve the problem but if someone knows how te help us I would like to hear it 🙂

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!! Jake66 for your correct answer. I was having the same issues and this corrected the "Crackling" sound during playback. Thank you again from Douglasville, Georgia!

Hi .Did you ever solve this problem

hey Nateski ,i couldn't find the answer you were talking about from JAke66 .PLease could you tell me what the solution was .Very much appreciated .Greetings from london 😉