I just started using Studio One Pro.

Today I got the same buzzing sound I got with Cubase 5 essential.

When it happens, it freezes the controls to....It locks up and makes a buzzing sound for a second  or more.

Only thing I was doing today different then the last few weeks is mixing with different VST at the same time...Until today I was only using the  PreSonus stuff that came with the DAW.

I was using Sonoma 7 VST Plugin and Pod Farm VST.

My laptop and PC both have done this on Cubase so I thought it was just a bug in Cubase itself.

Is it a PC problem?...

I took all the VST off my project I'm mixing .

Now I'm getting crackling sounds every now and then.

Everything was crystal clear and glitch free until today...I havent changed anything except adding POD Farm to the VST plugins location.

Very frustrating!

Thanks D

it maybe a bottleneck on your disk drives?

 maybe install this small app (its clean and free )

 HD Tune

 check on the drive you use for your music and data to check the speeds ..you'll know if its the root cause if the speed drops away suddenly after a few seconds.and you are getting about 1.5 MB/s data throughput.

 are you using the same OS that you connect to the net with, for your DAW OS or are you using separate OS' for each..the reason i ask is that sometimes just rebooting in XP helps because they seem to stick between them...use the HD tune app to check on each drive from the other OS if you run your setup like this.

Hmmm...crackling sounds might be more related to something in your hardware, such as an audio cable.  If you have an audio interface connected via a USB port, try a different USB port.  Sometimes these little noises come from the USB ports.  Also, I'd check all your audio cables. Unplug them one at a time and see if the noise goes away when one of them is taken off line.  Could just be a bad connection. 

Otherwise, without hearing it directly, not sure what else to suggest.

@ Ben, I ran that app....It gave me an average of 80.9 MB/sec......I don't know what it means...LOL

And I do use the same computer for everything...I go online with my laptop and my PC....I have Windows 7 on both.

@ Michael, I have noticed glitches with the Sonoma VST before...It will load slow or not show itself when clicked on.....I'm gonna try not using it and see what happens.

@ Donald, it could be my hardware but I haven't changed anything and I have all brand new cables.....Right now I'm using the Line6 UX2 with new Monster cables into my new monitors.....I have been on the Line 6 site and read about people having these cracking sounds using UX2 and UX1....But I have never had this problem till yesterday.

Thanks guys, I'm gonna try some things today and see if I can pinpoint the problem.

Thanks MDK, everything seems to be fine today.

Only thing I changed was I removed all the Sonoma and POD Farm VST from my project.....I completely removed POD farm from the DAW...Don't know if that was necessary but I did it anyways.

I might try the Sonoma again now...And if it does it again I know that it is the problem...I think it might be....I just like it cuz I got use to it in Riffworks.

 Thanks

OK, I figured out what was causing the problem.

I was mixing all day....And things were going smoothly....So I decided to try the Sonoma VST.

As soon as I put it on one of my tracks it did the buzzing thing.

Problem solved?

Thanks everyone

They give it to you when you buy Riffworks.

It's the same effects inside Riffworks but it's for a DAW.

http://www.sonomawireworks.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=3

Riffworks has been full of bugs...But with the last few updates I haven't had  many problems...They have never offered updates for the VST plugin.

Sounds like a communist plot.

Spoken in my best Russian accent, "In Soviet Russia, VST affect YOU!"