Maschine 3, Live Looping, clicks and pops

PortableDJs · 2025-07-19T12:39:05+00:00

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Hi guys!

I have been preparing a Live Looping set in Maschine 3 using Idea View, i am on a Macbook running Sequoia, CPU usage is fine, mainly mixing loops and samples, only Stock Plugins, I do have set up 2 perform effects to add movement.

Transition is set to re trigger, scene.

The question is what your best advice to avoid clicks and pops during scene transitions? I noticed that they are too frequent, and although sometimes shortening a bit a loop or a sample helps, the rest of the times seem that the click/pop during a scene transition is just physiological…

What a man can do about that?

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6xes

one thing you can check, is checking your samples & synths…

find out what the output sample rate is at

where the sample rate is matched there shouldnt be an issue

where they are mismatched, they are likely the problematic causing the clicks or pops….

further to samplerate mismatching…. is look to isolate the offending samples, and understand what is causing them… look through the signal chain, and isolate each plugin or process that takes place… this will help you pinning down whether it is a plugin issue… a zero'ing issue, midi issue or a cpu issue

good luck

PortableDJs

Thank you @6xes

I'll check that out. Also worth noticing:

Pops and clicks on transitions are very evident when I playback the project on MacBook's built in speakers
When re trigger is ON pops and clicks are most likely to appear when transitioning scenes

D-One

The Audio-Plugin has issues in Stretch Mode, It causes all sorts of pop's and clicks whenever something messes with Playback, it can be a manual Scene/Section change or just pressing Play then immediately stoping playback.

If you just have 1 or 2 Audio-Plugins it does not happen (or volume is very low) but if you have a few it's unavoidable, I am not sure the exact number but with 16 Audio Plugs the pops are unbearably loud.

If you can, avoid using "Stretch" Mode.

Heres how to verify:

Load this test Kit/Group attached bellow, it's just a clean sinewave, press play then stop and you should hear loud pops/clicks, select all Pads and change them all from Stretch Mode to Re-Pitch and the pops mostly go away.

TEST.zip

@ozon Probably remembers way more details about this issue than I do.

PortableDJs

Hello @D-One thank you for helping out.

Been using Perform and Stutter, I noticed that turning off Retrigger makes clicks and pops disappear during transitions; I just turn on Retrigger when I think it's needed.

Clicks and Pops are still there when I stop or manually restart the scene though but that is not a big deal, since I won't perform those actions during the set.

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