[Rainer]

Hi guys,

did you find a solution for the clicking problem?

Greets

[Rainer]

Hi Ken1,

@KEN1 said:
The pops and clicks are most likely do to your DAW and maybe a weak computer.Export your midi drums to a midi file.Open that midi file in SD3’s standalone app.Then export as you wish.Here is a good tutorial:

As I wrote before, I did this. The clicks still appear when I bounce the track from MIDI in the standalone mode. Please READ what I wrote before answer …

Running on a 8-Core Mac Pro with all updates (OS, PT, drivers, SD3) … This is NO weak system … Also the bouncing process is an offline process and it shouldn’t matter how strong or weak your PC/MAC is. If your DAW is slow the bouncing just needs more time and doesn’t produce audio clicks.

By the way: When I freeze the SD3 track in Pro Tools I found out, that there were rendering errors causing in clicks and hiss. Much more ressource needing software instruments don’t do that. Audio channels with round about 6 to 8 plug-ins don’t have that problem either. So what do you mean, Ken1? My machine is only weak when using SD3 because my MAC don’t like SD3 or what?!?!?!? I guess not …

[Rainer]

Hi John,

thanks for the reply.

I have an additional information: If I freeze the track in Pro Tools there is no clicking. At least I couldn’t recognize some. So this might really be a problem to the baking algorithm. Maybe a procedural one, because if I change the tempo of the project, the clicking dissapears or happens at a point in the song, where I didn’t recognize it.

I hope this helps you figure out, what it is.

Greets.

[Rainer]

@John said:
could you please ZIP a copy of your Session file (just that, not the Audio Files) and attach it a post here, so I may have look at it?
I am a Pro Tools user myself and I can’t say I’ve encountered what you’re describing.

Hi John,

I attached the SD3 project (I had to zip it), a screenshot where I marked the clicks and a mp3 downmix of bar 52 and 53 where the click is clearly hearable. There are also clicks in the rest of the audio and after compression etc. very clear to hear.

As you can see in the screenshot, the clicking appears again long after the song has ended. So maybe it’s a recurring error by the sample downmix engine.

By the way: Songtempo is 85.

THX

[Rainer]

Hi John,

the “workaround” of extending the recorded MIDI block is the way I did it, but this seems to be not very professional in my eyes. I mean there is no situation where I need to cut the bounced audio files by the length of the MIDI file, so this seems to be a bug or lack of programming. If there is a need to cut off the bounced files I do it manually and set a desired fade-out.

I do understand the new mixer, but that is not what I mentioned. I do want to have all sounds installed, because sometimes I will use the surround files. But for a stereo only production there is no need for these bounces, so it would be nice to have a menu, where you could select, what to bounce. Maybe a grid with channels on the left and close mics and bleeding on top. This would be a very nice feature.

I will send you the requested session as soon as I’m back in studio.

THX

[Rainer]

Update:

I made another test and it’s clear that the clicks were produced mainly in the bleeding tracks and the right channel of OH Cond. So maybe it’s just a bad cutted audio file in the bleeding library.

If you need a short example, please tell me how to upload it. Filesize is about 2.3 MB.

[Author]

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