All audio crackling

dalchina · 13 Sep 2021

kenrob2037 said:

Well, I did a full rest. I even redownloaded the OS from the cloud. So far so good. But for this to happen for no apparent reason, again, it has really turned me off Windows. I now have to spend the next week and more getting it back to where it was.

I'm going to get a new Mac and see how that goes.
Thanks for all the help, but why this happened, I can't say. I was doing everything as I normally do, and then wham. Which makes me think hardware, but it is going OK now. Still slow, which is nuts for an i7 with 32 gig ram and all I do is music, no video.

Cheers,

Rob

Thank you for your reply. Like anything, you have to be prepared. Where you have a mix of software of varying ages and types, things can go wrong, incompatibilities can arise.

Windows has been stable for me for several years. Years since I did a clean install.

If you had been using disk imaging routinely and regularly as is endlessly recommended here (lets you restore a previous good state of imaged partitions and protects you from disk failure, ransomware etc as well), you could have used that relatively painlessly.

Good luck.

fireberd · 13 Sep 2021

I run Cakewalk (Sonar) and Studio One 4.6 Pro on my Dell laptop. It has the original 2018 Win 10 OS with all current updates, minus Dell Support Assist.

Your problems, from your description, were not the Dell hardware's fault. Had you been using an HP or Acer or even a MAC the same problems could arise. Be careful with a MAC, as MAC OS updates obsolete older MAC hardware and even application programs unless the application software vendor updates to be compatible with the current MAC OS. Recording interface hardware is in the same boat, unless the hardware vendor updates their drivers and support software they can be OS incompatible.