Maschine Mk3 cracklings

Bane · 2025-05-26T10:19:10+00:00

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Hello, I have a problem with my Maschine MK3.

I'm using it with a Studio Logic SL88 Studio keyboard. I also have a Yamaha Audiogram 6 interface, and with that one there are no pops or only barely audible ones.

I'm working on a very powerful laptop:Intel Core i9-13980HX (13th Gen), 32 GB RAM, and a GPU RTX 4090.

I'm using the NUMA Player as a VST instrument, and I've tried everything I could think of. I’ve consulted with ChatGPT and tested different drivers: ASIO driver, ASIO4ALL, different sampling rates, buffer sizes, etc.

Latency itself isn’t a problem, even though sometimes it's reported as high.I’ve tested all kinds of parameters, including buffer sizes up to 1048. No luck.

The glitch I recorded in the audio sample is relatively subtle, but sometimes it can pop louder and more noticeably. On the Yamaha, it can happen too, but it’s very quiet and extremely rare. Possibly even related to when I have other applications running in the background.

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D-One

Get rid of ASIO4ALL and move from there, like the name implies, it's meant for interfaces that do not have ASIO, not your use case. It's from the days of using the output of motherboards that had cheap non-asio drivers…

Use the best interface you own with its own official drivers, guessing it's the Yamaha Audiogram 6.

1048 is a gigantic buffer for real-time playing, you shouldn't have any glitches at 512 or half, unless you're loading a very demanding project, thats a beefy laptop.

Make sure you have your laptop set to the "High Performance" power plan. Move from there and retest everything.

Sunborn

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/45478/maschine-mk3-cracklings

As D-One mentioned above: Get rid of that ASIO4All… it is a really poor and low quality solution, useful only to those who do not have any audio device and they work with their computer's audio chip.

Mark Oxley

Check your DAW, audio interface, maschine audio rate and buffer size all show the same in their respective settings, this is very important. You should have no trouble running an audio rate of 48000 with a buffer size of 256 on a PC of that spec.

Your CPU speed of 2045 mhz seems low for an i9 processor. As mentioned above make sure you set a high performance power plan in windows so it's forced to always run the CPU at its fastest speed.

Bear in mind that not all plugins are created equal, some are very resource hungry, Uhe Diva for example.

Definitely get rid of ASIO4ALL, you should be using either the maschine mk3 asio driver or the Yamaha audio interface asio driver. Preferably 1 or the other, not both together.

Bane

I installed ASIO4ALL because nothing I had tried before was working. After reading your comments, I uninstalled it again. The Numia processor is showing incorrect clock speeds — it's running in turbo mode above 3000 MHz. Sometimes it slows down, but usually, a simple MIDI piano with an acoustic piano instrument is no real load for it.

Let's agree that from now on, I will completely disconnect the Yamaha and try to set everything up using only the Maschine MK3. The problem is still clearly present.

Could it be that the issue lies within the Maschine itself? Maybe a newer audio interface could help solve the problem. I also tested this with other VST instruments, and the problem occurs regardless of which one I use.

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