Hey,
About every minute my sound is going crazy for about ten seconds. It sounds as if there's a bitcrusher applied for a moment. Or as if the bitdepth drops by 99% for a while.
Next to the fact that the sound is really messed up, I also notice slight increases in CPU usage. (see screens 1 and 2 below). When everything is alright, the CPU usage is about 2% (FX CPU: 5.6%), when the sound gets fucked up, the CPU usage is about 16.7% (FX CPU: 21.2%).
I have tried increasing latency but without any result. It actually seems that somehow smaller latency gives the better result. I even used a buffer size of 512, with firewire driver latency set to moderate, and still had a very shitty sound.
My soundcard is a Focusrite Saffire Pro 14, external firewire device.
The weird fucking thing is that everything sound perfectly alright, its just about every minute that I get 10 seconds of horrible sounds coming straight from hell.
What is weird as well is that the recorded audio sounds absolutely fine, it's just when I'm recording a track.
I also tried disabling all VST's, using only 'safe and trustable'ones (from reaper itself, and some plugin from Poulin - guitar people will know this one)
My audio setup used to work really well some time ago, I cannot recall when this problem started to happen. I have barely anything installed on this PC.
Screen1:
http://tinypic.com/r/309hk5s/8
Screen2:
http://i60.tinypic.com/21diqdl.jpg
Periodical sound freeze
Linear Mode
