I had a lot heavy cracking and clicking when playing and recording a couple of experiments. Jack had a lot of xruns and I set out to deal with those -- closing every other program, increasing jack and/or tidal latency, but still many xruns.
And after a good amount of trial and error, eventually those xruns disappeared when I disabled the sustain
parameter on the synths I was using; I confirmed this happened with superfm
and superpiano
, where introducing a sustain
effect would bring up many xruns.
Now, I still get occasional xruns when taxing the CPU with heavy desktop switching, but it's sustain
that seems to make my CPU push beyond what seems reasonable. Is this expected behavior? Maybe I'm missing something obvious?