::C's Beats - Fixing FL Studio's Crackling (CPU Buffering) Tutorial::

[DJVandalOfficial]

Pizza Factory? :L

[Fleegal101]

I am having a problem where it doesn't necessarily crackle when I play a sound, but rather it just has 2-5 second crackling sessions at random intervals, regardless of whether I am playing a song or not.

[MegaManofFaith]

thanks bro...i been waiting to get enough rest to fix my fl studio program and i've already heard this fix but never explained the way you did...thanks bro and keep up the good work....

[DJSeasho]

@MegaManofFaith Anytime man, glad I could help!

[Vtmuik123AndAdu]

does anyone know why my FL Studio 10 won't open any MP3? -Venge

[GagzuMUSICTRACKER]

Thanks a ton man! you saved my track, thanks to you I managed to finish my track.

[ZzZEeESsSTtTYyY]

it skipps for like two minutes every 5 minutes. i tried the high preformance mode and it didnt do shit

[ZzZEeESsSTtTYyY]

Ive t5ried this before and on some projects it doesnt work ive turned off most of the effects too is there anything else you can do besides this

[poppafunky]

def helped, thank you



[TheStackpaper1]

thank you bro. your awesome

[DJSeasho]

@TheStackpaper1 Thanks for thanking :D

[Gvendal]

So If I understand this correctly it`s all about the cpu? If I buy a realy good one it means I can have lower buffer length? My problem is not crackling sounds but that the cpu load shoots sky high and stops any sound for a sekond at random times and couses lots of underruns.

[uleavemecold]

you just saved my life!!! thanks for the awesome tutorial.

[Enternamehereful]

Thank you so much!!!! You saved hours of my time :P

[TCTeamBlackout]

diggin the intro music! and nice tut! keep it up!

[zackithomas]

Good Looking



[RowenaReena]

Thank youuuuuu!!!! :)

[DJSeasho]

@RowenaReena No problem :D

[KevitoKeviiBeats]

This really helps. Thanks bro...

[Derm1991]

YES! Fixes this easy arnt usually this easy to find. Cheers man!

[jay666rob]

are you 10% sure its the ComputerProcessingUnit because i have a ATI X4 (quad core) processor and that is powerful!

[DJSeasho]

@jay666rob Multi core processors throttle the available power to your program, make sure your computer is set to "High Performance Mode" in the power settings prior to using FL studio, this will ensure you are getting the most out of your processor as overloads can occur easily if you are on the wrong setting.

[Louiebeats]

THANKS MAN!!!!!

[LaTeNaTe92]

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[iNs3CuRePL]

Thanks a lot :D

[imurmslmman]

thank youououo

we love you just the way you R!!!

[LARSECITY09]

THANKS MAN JUST SAVE ME FROM FUCKIN THRASHIN THIS THING . LOL

[satyriconlife]

no matter wat i do mine wont stop cracking its horrible

[Brawl4Metal]

@satyriconlife Either clear a bunch of stuff from your computer. Close all programs while running FL Studio. Or (and this is a last resort) restore the computer back to factory defaults.

[MarkTheKing420]

i love you <3 omfg i love you <3

[Jonking720]

you have seriously solve all my problems.. I will subscribe to you!! apparantly there was nothing wrong.. I just had it on my primary sound device and all i had to do was put it on asioall and it fixed it.. thanks :))))

[401MuzikPro]

Good shit dude

[hooliiisdewayne]

This sound sooo great.

[MIKElikestoMOSH]

Thank you so much! i didn't even have to finish the video and my problem was solved. 

[killarmy101]

ohh shitt thank alot bro!!

[RobertAlanMacDonald]

thank you sir ! much love.

[13expose13]

Thanks bro, helped alot.

[DANNYROD]

thanx bro im subscribing 2u bcuz of this tut rite here!!!! yay now i dont have to convert my traks 2 wav just to hear them w/o crackling! xD

[DJSeasho]

@DANNYROD Thanks man!

[MAR1259]

whats a pizza factory

[elua991971]

thanks bro. when i become the next dr. dre i'll give props

[Rhasky6]

When I change to the ASIO driver I get a difference in quality. When I go back to my primary sound drive it sounds much worse. But if I render out the track and keep the ASIO driver on it renders in the original quality. Anyway to fix this?

[vDGaming360]

i love you

[FINKDAP1NK]

ty , you are the man .. thanks for the help

[sk8erollie1]

thank you so much and great intro :)

[308beatZ]

@BangZzYoSpeakers yee

[aNiReXx]

Thank you very much! btw ever get that new pc?

[aNiReXx]

Thank you very much!

[croatianthug]

is there crackling because of processor or sound card?????

[308beatZ]

@croatianthug processor...it happens if you have lots of vst's loaded, ram is for samples, processor for plug-in's & such...I had a this problem...but I said fuck that pc and I'm building a all updated powerful pc from scratch.

[UncleCreepyBeats]

hey, quick question...

when i add a filter automation or a volume automation there is a distinct click right before the filter or volume control kicks in...is there anyway to eliminate this from happening? If you listen to my song Some Notes its very apparent what my problem is...you can hear the click right before the main lead comes in...

thanks,

UCB

[KharismaTV]

thanks man 

[jtutstone]

Good Looking Out Bro! aka Thanks!

[wtfkarWill69]

greetings!

I am having trouble again with the CPU ... when I set the external sound card in ASIO: 1.00ms latency on, then I have crackling, when I set for example on latency 5 ms, then again I have problems with the CPU, no crackling, but high latency, and I know that this is not the processor, or in the RAM, these components have a powerful, but I think that would solve my problem could reinstall Windows?? and if not, so what's the problem? with what is necessary to tinker?

[STASHBK]

very informative...thanks

[TiigerTekzz]

Ty DjSeasho, I will sub & like ^.^

[jazzbluesshred]

ahhh, thanks! i thought that the crackling was clipping! , but it must be this!

[EuphoricAlex]

thankyou so much. this saved my dubstep beat.

[TheLynxie]

AMD Phenom II X4 3000Mhz and I'm getting a CPU problem?! What?!

[ProfessorGerbik]

@TheLynxie yea i feel you i have a even more powerful cpu and for some really odd reason fl studio 10 uses supposedly 70% even when its idle which i dont understand. i have amd phenom II 1055t, 6 core.

i said to myself this cant be right i have the 6 core processor gen2 and fl studio says its using 70+% when idle, this is testing with the demo song which is good for testing. so i look in task manager thinking ok it should be the same cpu usage, no oddly task manager says its only using 15%?

[wtfkarWill69]

@ProfessorGerbik hi, reinstall windows, This will help you!

[ProfessorGerbik]

@TheLynxie im just really confused as to why fl studio is not using my cpu properly, task manager says only 15% gets used at max, which sounds right, but when its the cpu usage in fl studio it gives 70+%, clearly it appears to not be using my cpu fully.

ive tried many different settings, nothing works. i dont get crackling but its not right it runs on constant 70%, when the program is only using 15% of my cpu.

[TheLynxie]

@ProfessorGerbik I'm getting a 27% when FL is running, and a max of 45% when playing a song before it crackles.

[brendens0000hotmail]

Thanks ALLOT

[TheKohish]

Thanks bro! This helped me a lot!

[nughaga]

aw man seasho ur tuts are so clear! thanks for all of them! not just this :D

[DJSeasho]

@nughaga No problem, glad it could help bro =]

[DJafferiK]

"Crazy-ass-super-computer" lol :P

[AeonFlexMusic]

i have this problem except it pertains to a sample i uploaded into slicex there is clicking and popping and i want to filter that out

[NobilityProductions]

I accidentally removed my ASIO Drivers when I first got Fl Studio.... Can anyone show me how to redownload them please??

[DJSeasho]

@NobilityProductions w w w . asio4all . c o m

[NobilityProductions]

@DJSeasho Thank you! But how do I open them on FL Studio now? I put them in that extra stuff folder where other stuff like that goes. Was that wrong or am I just not doing something?

[dog009988]

@DJSeasho if i have an 4 tb Computer and a 50hz Speaker with a subwoofer doese that make my computer a supercomputer?

[nuclearshadow12]

@DJSeasho i know you made this tutorial a long time ago so i'm assuming you know more about this issue by now. i desperatelyneed help with this. i have 3 vsts loaded up in FL right now: kore player, nexus, and 3xosc. my computer will not stop crackling and i have the buffer set really high. any idea on how i can fix this? its driving me crazy!!!

[djralfhynes]

My problems are fixed now, I installed the asio 2.9 version as the 2.10 version only worked for a couple of weeks. No idea why, maybe its a vista thing and 2.9 just works better or maybe im talking tru me ass caus I havnt really got a clue but im sharing this because this is what has worked for me.

[WTFblogg]

skip to the point

[26hknelson]

how much memory and gigs should i have to lay vocals and make beats sound smooth?reply fast thank you

[MarcusSims91]

Mines just all of a sudden start crackiling

it was playing fine til a few days ago

and the CPU is up way higher then it used to be

You know that the problem is ?

[ProfessorGerbik]

@MarcusSims91 yea im having same issue since upgrading to 10. task manager says only using 15% of cpu, but fl studio says its using 70+% of my cpu even when its idle. dont get why its not using my cpu correctly of fully.

i mean i play video games that use more cpu usage in task manager i dont understand why if its using so much cpu in fl studio why wouldnt the task manager cpu usage be the same.

[djralfhynes]

i already downloaded the latest asio4all but it didnt help, thats wierd that the stored data cant just be dumped, my pc has 3 gb so it should be well able for it, thanx mate

[DJSeasho]

@ZodiProductions np =]

[djralfhynes]

hey man, are you saying when you reach the maximum then that is it, you need a new pc? is there no way to delete all the stored data in fl? Mine is popping and I have already done all you said in this video, Is mine fucked ?

[DJSeasho]

@djralfhynes Try out the ASIO drivers, at .asio4all . c o m/ they are more efficient than the default ones. If that doesn't work try using less cpu instensive vsts, get more ram, or a new pc.

[richardm80]

@DJSeasho when I select the asio drivers I can't hear any sound when i play the song in FL :/

[DJSeasho]

@richardm80 Click the green icon in the lower right corner representing the asio drivers and make sure that your sound card is highlighted in light blue without a red x. Also make sure FL is the only application running.

[tristanvo1]

thnx

[DJSeasho]

@tristanvo1 np

[chrisohms1]

thanks buddy, with a little play on my buffer length slider i was able to take out the crackle. id shake your hand if i could

[DJSeasho]

@chrisohms1 nice! lol thanks!

[JSonyMusik]

Im not gonna lie but I am really glad I subbed you, Helpful tip. Thank you sooo much!!!!!!!!! =)

[DJSeasho]

@JSonyMusik No problem, thanks for watching!

[Evil92308]

THANK YOU DUDE THIS SAVED MY EARS!!

[DJSeasho]

@Evil92308 welcome lol =]

[aCagedApe]

thanks.

[DJSeasho]

@aCagedApe No problem

[xfearbeforealex]

i supbsribed yo

[DJSeasho]

@xfearbeforealex Thanks!

[bigmoney58]

what programs is being used to record this video

[DJSeasho]

@bigmoney58 Camtasia Studio

[TCSOG]

HEY DJSEASHO WHEN YOU ARE MAKING THE SONG IN THE STUDIO ITS KINDA LIKE A ROUGH DRAFT AND WHEN YOU EXPORT IT MAKES A FINAL COPY THATS WHY IT GIVES YOU THE OPTION TO ADJUST YOUR BIT RATE PEOPLE DONT WASTE YOUR TIME WITH THIS WHEN YOU EXPORT YOUR SONG SET YOUR BIT RATE TO 320KBS AND ANYTHING BETWEEN 128KBS AND 320KBS WITH GET RID OF ALL THAT NOISE AND YOUR SONG WILL BE FRESH NOT GAY LIKE WHAT EVER HES MAKIN YOU CAN MAKE SOME SICK BEATS FROM RAP TO ROCK TO DUBSTEP HOUSE EVERYTHING!!!!!

[DJSeasho]

@TCSOG You're right lol but working on the track through crackles can be... annoying?

[leorodion]

thank youuuu, it helped

[lilmattere]

Im doing your doing in this vid but there is more cracking.

The underruns are like 600

[pikachize]

Thanks a lot for this. Worked perfectly. ;)

[tripitydoda]

this fucking sucks or my pc sucks

[AllTranceUps]

Thanks a lot dude! Been trying to fix this problem for awhile now. Great tutorial. =P

[RandomRealist]

my asio drivers dont produce any sound, what do i do to fix that?

[1youngrizzal]

@RandomRealist you only here sound in record mode with asio

[ThatFliWhiteGuy]

This is my problem, When I try to play certain packs from the browser on the left i hear crackling noises. Like when I try to sample them. It happens with some of the pre installed packs as well.

[lukenasty91]

thanks man, appreciate it

[VelvetAllure]

THANKS SO FUCKING MUCH<3 This totally worked, you fuckin' rock man!

[golsenator]

thanks so much, i was so happy when this worked.

[SignedAnon]

Dude, I don't know what happened, but after taking a break for a few days, I went back to my remix and played with the levels just a bit, but only increasing them and not lowering them any, and when I exported the song it sounded fine. No issues with crackling or popping...

[DJSeasho]

@SignedAnon Can't say what happened lol

[SignedAnon]

@DJSeasho Works for me though. I revised it to be a little less harsh on the blood overdrive after it had already worked, but it sounds much better now...

[Seeeeaaaannn]

@SignedAnon Yeah dont worry its just on fruity loops it'll sound fine exported

[SignedAnon]

@Seeeeaaaannn It wasn't fine exported though. I've just started to mix parts down as I do them and then export the smaller parts as wav files because they use way less CPU space.

[SignedAnon]

Hey man, I've had this problem with when I'm actually creating a track and used ASIO and enhanced everything, got rid of all the underruns, but do you know how I can get rid of all the crackling in the exported mp3 file? I have no idea and it's driving me insane. I've tried everything and the exported MP3 still cracks a lot.

[DJSeasho]

@SignedAnon That crackling means your audio has overloaded, your spiking the volume too high so the soundwaves get clipped causing crackling, if you see red on your peak meter, it's too loud, I'll be releasing a mixing and mastering tutorial soon to help people with their mixes.

[SignedAnon]

@DJSeasho Well that's what I figured, so I went in a dropped the levels on just about everything to about 50-75% of the maximum, and I'm still getting a ton of crackling in the export...I'm thinking I might switch my sound to ASIO, then record into edison and see if that helps with the cracking and clicking. Think that would work?

[DJSeasho]

@SignedAnon Hard to say without seeing the project, recording into edison will give you a lower quality sound than rendering it through

[SignedAnon]

@DJSeasho It actually did okay through edison. I had to lower everything to get the sound in without it clipping volume wise, but the end product of the edison export wasn't bad. It was as good as a rendered project export, but it was okay. Definitely need to figure out how to do it without recording into edison though. It's a pain to bring all the levels down and then back up to continue working on it.

[DJSeasho]

@SignedAnon It's better to get a feel for your levels before you get too deep into a project, depending on the beat you want most instruments (put together) around -14 db, kick drums as high as -3, hi hats around the -30's, snares/claps anywhere between

-9/-13 db. 80 percent of mixing is getting the right volumes from the get go.

[GCProductionz1]

All You do is click your primary soundcard , and it works way better than using the asio sound devices.

[GCProductionz1]

All i did was click my primary soundcard under directsound devices, in the audio Settings window and it worked way better than using the asio sound devices.

[JingleBerries11]

dude i have

AMD Athlon II x3 at 3.00ghz

4gb ddr2 Ram

ati hd 4550 ( 512mb) w/ 785g 128mb ( Hybrid)

and a sound blaster Live sound card

will this FL Studio work flawlesly?? with no latency?

if so , could i go with vista x64 ??

i like win 7 but i like vista's look better ....

[DJSeasho]

@JingleBerries11 FL never works "Flawlessly" lol there are always issues with any problems, with that configuration you should be able to produce without too many hiccups as long as you turn your power settings to "High Performance" prior to working on beats, and altering your soundcard latency as necessary.

[JingleBerries11]

@DJSeasho so fl studio will woek, i got that , unmn how about the Os choice , vista x64 or win 7 x64 ? anyone is free to answer

[BootuT]

My PC will restart when i try the asio...and orig. sound driver will crackling,i think my Pentium 4 3.20 Ghz is not enough to Fl with nexus 2 and so on.

[RAVEN6591]

THX ALOT DUDE (PUT THE POINTER TO HALF AND Y'ALL WONT HEAR THE CRACKLING ANY MORE)

[JELLYSANDWICHFOREVER]

thank you SO MUCH!

dubstep was a son of a bitch to make cause of that fucking crackling.

your a life saver

SUBSCRIBED!

[walidb123]

Woh. This worked right away. Thanks for the help man!

[MrKillerBeatsZ]

@DJSeasho do u know where i can download asio drivers

When i installed fl studio it didn't install THE asio driver

[Speedcult77]

Awsome, thanks, fixed my dirty record sounding pops and clicks lol.

[qskateq1]

Thanks man, that was very helpful!

[ElectrikSoundStudios]

Would more ram help? were running 1 gig, and would 2 gigs of ram help?

[redbull4cufc]

thanks mate u helped me with 2 things there and one of them isnt what i was looking for lol

1. i was looking for how to stop the crackling, for playing songs

2, the thing u helped me with was: my keyboard had slow feedback like what u just showed with the buffer but now problem solved not slow any more thanks (Y) :D

[lllDjReVeRsElll]

thanks really helped :)

[finkenmaster]

Awesome!!! Slowed down buffer speed barely at all and all crackling is gone. thank you so much

[Lethys1]

When i load lots of vst's on my project to make it perfect, my CPU usage goes up and when it is more than 500 mb it takes ages to load my project and i recieve alot of underruns. Can you help me fix this? This happens whle using my audio card Realtek AC97 Audio as input/output. The same happens on ASIO4All v2. should i buy a better audio card? or more ram? I've seen other vids on youtube where people use alot of vst's but their FL studio doesn't lag or recieve any underruns at all. please help

[slimsu]

thank you !

[iamSAINT2k9]

get me a discount on pizza's lol and send them to england birmingham lmao o.j but thanks man helpd me a lot!!

[evilsenemy123]

thank you so so much help me get rid of that damed cracking noise

[cam94z28]

I think It's more related to the sound card capabilities than the processor. Hard to believe a quad core Athlon II x4 634, even at stock 2.9ghz would be to blame. With all the crackling going on I was showing under 15% cpu usage, even with one of the HUGE sample tracks that comes with FL. I think onboard audio is to to blame. I have an old audigy 2 laying around (don't know why I never installed it), and I'm confident I'll solve it. With my Realtek, I have to set it to over 5700 samples.

[DJSeasho]

The Audio Buffer is a temporary store of audio waiting to be sent to the soundcard, allowing FL Studio to even out momentary spikes in CPU load. If the Audio Buffer runs dry, because your CPU or hard-drive can't keep up with the 'real-time' audio stream, then your Soundcard will make rude pop, click or stutter noises. It is worth noting that underruns can ONLY occur in real-time playback

[Reddoguk]

i got rid of my crackling just by selecting my Realtek HD audio output.

i don't believe this has anything to do with CPU, even with alot going on i only use 20-30% .

[rydoggjunit]

sweet cheers man!!!! that cracking was realy getn 2 me ae

[svircheto]

@DJSeasho search on Youtube

Tiesto - Kaleidoscope... I want those synths to play @ my PC perfectly.

[johnpaulbehr]

i get how to reduce crackling in fl studio and tahanks for the vid, but when i export a song in mp3 and play it my speakers still crackle, and ALOT.

thanks if u can respond.

[DJSeasho]

@johnpaulbehr That means your speaker cones have likely detached.. sounds like you need new speakers...

[i0Hate0Tyres]

I have this same problem, but i think that it's 64 bit drivers... I.E. Windows Vista x64, on a overclocked cpu (2.15ghz or something) /w 4 gigs of ram isn't enough to run FL 9 with Standard Soundblaster drivers... efficiently, but ASIO works fine i guess...

[thabossesboss]

hey thanks this video helped!!!

[isharaism]

what up C? ok?!..i just got a new CPU and its awesome but am having a problem because am getting cracklings but my computer is only using 3 cores at max and not pushing over 20% on any of them. i really thought that the new CPU was gonna fix all of this.. anyways! what the f? or maybe its my sound card, am using Sound Blaster Audigy.. so, if it is, what sound card would you recommend? under 150 of cause..haha

[isharaism]

My CPU is an amd phenom ii x4 940 Quad core. anyway...

[DJSeasho]

@isharaism Hmm I'm not sure ish I can look into it though ^^

[hotdre276]

Thank you for the advise, but I found out depending on your computer you just move the buffer size up on your computer to take the crackling out if it pushes 4gigs of RAM or more.

But if it wasn't for your tutorial I wouldn't have figured it out on my own. Thank you.

[kin1g3]

Thank s it work i set it to half an it stop

[superslikuzi007]

LMAO @ 99.9% of us don't have that.. lol

[DJSeasho]

lol right?! :D Thanks for watching bro

[arnab1021976]

I was wondering... using these tricks you showed here can FL be used in a box with 2ghz cpu and 512mb ram? Reaper runs fine on it btw.

What is your PC like? Please answer.

[DJSeasho]

These settings can be tweaked for any PC running FL Studio, mine is running at 2.2 ghz single core 3.5 gigs Ram.