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ChunkyGlasses
ChunkyGlasses
Participant
July 23, 2020
Question

Getting crackling/stuttering in playback and editing of latest version of Audition.

This is NOT an issue with the audio. It is an issue with the interface/latency settings/resources.

 

Does anyone have some suggested settings or a cache that can be manually cleared that might free up resources for Audition. Currently I've got most of the memory allocated for Audition's use and playback is fine unless you do something like move the mouse. Then it stutters and crackles until you stop.

 

Even more confusing is that sometimes it does this, and other times it is fine!*

 

*The latency issue also occurs in Ableton, but only if i'm pushing over 24 tracks, which is kinda to be expected. Occurs in Audition with more than 3 tracks. 

Machine specs:
Intel Core i7-7500U @ 2.7GHz
8GB of memory.

 

Not EXTRA beefy, but should be enough to get the job done. 

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SteveG_AudioMasters_
Community Expert
SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
Community Expert
July 23, 2020

If you get jumpy playback, then it won't have anything to do with how slow your processor is, or how much RAM you haven't got, or anything to do with a cache at all. In Multitrack view in Audition, this is pretty much determined by how fast stuff can be read from your HD. Comparing Ableton to Audition in terms of tracks is a bit like comparing eggs to bananas. They are both food, but that's about as far as it goes...

 

Have you tried using a fast external drive just for audio? This generally works pretty well - way better than any drive that's also running the OS and all your temp files, anyway.

ChunkyGlasses
ChunkyGlassesAuteur
Participant
July 23, 2020

I actually haven't in Audition.

 

What would that look like? Install the software on the external drive or just point all of the Cache/Temp directories to it? 

SteveG_AudioMasters_
Community Expert
SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
Community Expert
July 23, 2020

The usual way to do this is just to stream the audio from the external drive. If you're going to make a good job of this though, it's worth searching out the info (it's an easy search) about optimising W10 for audio - assuming that's what you are running - as it certainly isn't the way it comes. Where the software is doesn't matter that much - that's generally fine on the C: drive. If you can get the temp files onto a space that the OS isn't continually trying to re-size (this is one of the things that the optimising process will help you with) then that will help too.

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