Click when song starts (?)

[dpg4macman]

Hello all, I'm having an issue where when I start a sequence I will hear a click sound. This will also translate into a bounce. It is intermittent and becoming frustrating to me. I checked my set up and everything is good. I'm guessing it's some third party plugin. Anyone else having this concern?

Thanks for replies in advance,

mvh

[mhschmieder]

Well, by "click" do you mean a momentary spike, something fuzzy, white noise, or a brief high-pitched "note"? If you can characterize the sound you're hearing a little better, it may help in identifying the cause.

If you have pre-rendering set to "on" in your user preferences, you MAY be hearing the flushing out of a buffer from whatever you did last.

That's my only speculation for now; I'm tired from a long day. I had other ideas but they've already escaped me.

The "intermittent" thing leads me to think that it may be something other than pre-render going on though.

[dpg4macman]

I unchecked pre-render and it still acted up. I bypassed all effects and processors. Never did figure it out. It was coming from a track where there was no audio - strange. I automated a mute on that track in the beginning and that solved it.

Thanks for the help

mvh

[monkey man]

Yup. The automation route is a way around it.

FWIMBW, if you don't leave much space before audio begins at the start of your sequence / bounce selection, you might want to try allowing a little more, just to ensure that plugs and VIs have a chance to "settle in". A bar should easily do it.