The pops and clicks are probably caused by buffer underruns. MJ12 isn't always feeding audio data to the ASIO driver fast enough. There can be several causes:
- Too much other CPU activity competing with MJ123. When you turn on effects, you ask MJ12 to do more processing. Bring up task manager (Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to get Task manager running.) Click on the "Performance tab. Watch the CPU usage graph as you play music. Look for high usage and spikes in usage. Then click on the "Processes" tab and then click on the "CPU" column heading. Scroll down so that you are looking at the processes that use the most CPU time.
- Your CPU is just not fast enough to do the effects processing. Follow the Task manager drill as described above.
- Your ASIO buffer settings are just too small. In MJ12, bring up the Tools/Options/Playback menu and click on Output mode settings. You will see a slider for setting buffering. Your ASIO driver may have a way to set buffering through its control panel. Increasing the amount of buffering can also help with the CPU problems mentioned above.
- Your anti-virus s/w is checking every file you read. This can bring any Windows PC down to a crawl. for most A/V software, you can turn off the constant monitoring and just let it check email and downloads.
- If you are also upsampling in MJ12, that increases the amount of CPU time needed. It is not a good idea if your PC is old, slow or heavily loaded.
The clicks and pops probably have nothing to do with clipping.
The J. River forums for MJ and MC are a better plac eto get advbice than this forum. More users willing to help.
Bill
- Too much other CPU activity competing with MJ123. When you turn on effects, you ask MJ12 to do more processing. Bring up task manager (Press Ctrl-Alt-Del to get Task manager running.) Click on the "Performance tab. Watch the CPU usage graph as you play music. Look for high usage and spikes in usage. Then click on the "Processes" tab and then click on the "CPU" column heading. Scroll down so that you are looking at the processes that use the most CPU time.
- Your CPU is just not fast enough to do the effects processing. Follow the Task manager drill as described above.
- Your ASIO buffer settings are just too small. In MJ12, bring up the Tools/Options/Playback menu and click on Output mode settings. You will see a slider for setting buffering. Your ASIO driver may have a way to set buffering through its control panel. Increasing the amount of buffering can also help with the CPU problems mentioned above.
- Your anti-virus s/w is checking every file you read. This can bring any Windows PC down to a crawl. for most A/V software, you can turn off the constant monitoring and just let it check email and downloads.
- If you are also upsampling in MJ12, that increases the amount of CPU time needed. It is not a good idea if your PC is old, slow or heavily loaded.
The clicks and pops probably have nothing to do with clipping.
The J. River forums for MJ and MC are a better plac eto get advbice than this forum. More users willing to help.
Bill