Need help eliminating popping & clicking

[lutherlutherluther]

Hi,
I have been experiencing difficulties in Mixcraft 9 Pro Studio in regards to unwanted clicking sounds appearing. They are especially egregious when there is any change in a track automation, where crackling noises are constant until said automation's envelope has reached a fixed point (be it volume, EQ, etc.). These artifacts sometimes show up at the beginning and end of audio clips as well. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!

[CactusMusicBC]

Audio drop out and artifacts are mostly caused by your audio system not being set up properly or by to low a buff setting and a combination of both.
It would help if you posted what audio interface you are using and what your buffer setting is.
Also if you are using a lot of plug ins that can hog CPU and RAM.

[dstebbins]

Just throwing it out there, I had one track that constantly popped when I rendered it to mp3. Was random, but always seemed to occur at the same place in a measure. Several times during the song, but not every instance of that bass guitar/line.

Took me a while to figure it out, but I had tweaked one bass note higher than I should have in melodyne and that was causing the pops. Brought it back down to a reasonable level +3.0db, and the popping stopped. Could it be something similar or something with volume automation? See if you can narrow it down to a track.