So I purchased and installed this, against my better judgement and with the secure knowledge that NI will honor their return policy if needed.
I've started with the Absynth6 preset bank. Preset 1(aarctic drift) sounds great. Preset 2 (aardent corrosie) has abrupt 'popping' sounds in standalone, cubase 15, bitwig 5.3.13 and also bitwig 6 beta 7.
No ASIO/CPU/meter issues, and you can see the meter below. See the hard vertical lines?:
I have tried out 20+ more presets, in the stock order for the Absynth6 bank and I hear no more pops.
In standalone I get identical pops as in the above image, but for some reason I cannot monitor the channel Absynth6 is using in standalone using my meter application. If I set A6 to use "windows audio", I can see meter activity, but if I set it to Focusrite ASIO, I get nothing. My meter is monitoring the main audio outputs and is driver agnostic, so why is this happening?? Anyway this is just one preset. If I find any others doing strange things, Ill post it here.
Edit: Cubase 15 is also making the popping sound on preset #2. Any interface config. ASIO meter does not show peaks or any issues.
@Milkman Could you give us more details on your setup so we can try and reproduce the issue? What soundcard is used, with what settings? Sample rate, buffer size, bit depth, etc..
Win10, cubase 14, 15, BWS 5.3.13, BWS 6 beta 8. Focusrite 18i20, started with 128/44 @ 24 bit. Changed settings from 128 to 512 and everything in between. Changed from 24bit to 32 and back.
This doesnt appear to have anything to do (externally) with audio interface config. The pops are processed by Absynth6's internal effects, and come out effected.
The workaround in my first comment (modifying mono / poly settings or voice settings) does not save, so it always has to be reconfigured on each preset that does it. I've since found that not all presets with pops can be solved by mono/poly alone.
Preset #2 (absynth6 bank), "Aardent Corrosie", which is one of the very worst for making this popping sound. It pops like crazy UNLESS you 1) play one single note at a time, allowing it to tail off. 2) go to the "assign" page and add one more voice. This ruins the sound of the preset, but no more pops.
I have found, for preset #2, if you use the macro knobs to turn "FX Wet" and "FX Dry" completely off, you can hear a small amount of unaffected sound. No pops, no matter how you play it.
If you start to add back some of the "FX Wet" signal, you can clearly hear the POPS with very little of the unaffected sound, so the pops are very clear. It looks like this on the meter:
Also: The "assign" page remembers the first 1-8 learned or assigned MIDI CCs, but always forgets the other 8. I have to re-bind or learn them for each preset.
If I turn "FX wet" and "FX dry" completely off, leaving the original signal, the meter looks like this:
The pops come from the FX processors?
