Reaper / Superior Drummer 3 – pops & crackles on Reaper start-up

[rrrural]

I have a problem that I haven’t been able to...

I have a problem that I haven’t been able to solve.
I use Superior Drummer 3 as a VST3i plugin with Reaper.

I have a primary Reaper project, with my Superior Drummer set-up saved alongside some tracks I’m working on.

Whenever I start Reaper, the Superior Drummer output is covered in pops and crackles.
I can reliably remove the pops and crackles if I open the FX for the affected channel, remove the Superior Drummer plugin, then add it back again.

Edit: Here’s a video demonstrating the problem and the solution I described above.

I’m pretty bored with having to ‘reset’ the plugin every time I start a session. Any ideas how I can deal with this permanently? I appreciate that it may be an issue with Reaper, rather than the SD plugin, but I’m not sure where to start.

My set-up:
MacBook Pro 14-inch, 2021
macOS 15.5
Universal Audio Volt 276
Reaper 7.43 (Universal Mac app)
Superior Drummer 3.4

Thanks!

Operating system: macOS Sequoia (15)

• This post was modified 1 month, 3 weeks ago by rrrural.

I have a problem that I haven’t been able to solve.
I use Superior Drummer 3 as a VST3i plugin with Reaper.

I have a primary Reaper project, with my Superior Drummer set-up saved alongside some tracks I’m working on.

Whenever I start Reaper, the Superior Drummer output is covered in pops and crackles.
I can reliably remove the pops and crackles if I open the FX for the affected channel, remove the Superior Drummer plugin, then add it back again.

Edit: Here’s a video demonstrating the problem and the solution I described above.

I’m pretty bored with having to ‘reset’ the plugin every time I start a session. Any ideas how I can deal with this permanently? I appreciate that it may be an issue with Reaper, rather than the SD plugin, but I’m not sure where to start.

My set-up:
MacBook Pro 14-inch, 2021
macOS 15.5
Universal Audio Volt 276
Reaper 7.43 (Universal Mac app)
Superior Drummer 3.4

Thanks!

Operating system: macOS Sequoia (15)

• This post was modified 1 month, 3 weeks ago by rrrural.

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[rrrural]

I have to come back here cap-in-hand.

I took a testing deep dive and realised, through a lot of trial and error, that I had somehow added Superior Drummer to an additional 12 channels in my Reaper project. I have no recollection of adding SD to those channels so I just wasn’t looking for it.

As soon as I removed SD from the FX on all those channels, my problem was solved.

A very humble ‘thank you’ to anyone who read this thread/watched my video/thought about this, and especially if you replied.

Superior Drummer 3 version: 3.4.1
Operating system: macOS Sequoia (15)

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Thanked by: John and Brad

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