Although I consider myself an expert about computers and Hauptwerk, I am reaching out to others to see if your experiences can guide me in the correct direction.
I am experiencing loud audio pops while playing Hauptwerk - but not at first. I can load an organ and it will play completely correctly for as much as a few days before these pops stat occurring. The pops are associated with specific pipes in specific ranks - and these always appear to be the same for a given loaded organ. If they happened from the start after loading, I would assume they were caused by discontinuities in the audio samples. Indeed, when they do occur, they appear in only one of the release samples if multiple ones are present.
If I reload the organ, the pops go away - for a day or so... The pops then come back after a time - in the same pipes as before.
I am running HW on a Mac mini 8, with 6 cores and 64 MB of RAM. I am running OSX 12.6 and HW 8.
I run no other applications on this machine - though it still has all the normal Apple operating system apps and is running mail. The machine is connected to the Internet.
I tend to play large sample sets because I have a huge organ console - however, I experience this problem even when there is more than 32 GB RAM still free - according to Hauptwerk.
I suspected a bad RAM chip, so I ran Apple's diagnostics ("D" mode") but everything passed the tests.
The problem has nothing to do with MIDI as I can trigger the problems on the screen using a mouse.
I just loaded the St. Anne organ to see if it exhibits the same behavior. I will have to wait a day or so to see if any pipes begin "popping." My theory is that this has nothing to do with the sample set and is, instead, a problem in RAM in some way.
Let me know if you have either experienced a similar problem or have any ideas I haven't yet tried.
Thanks in advance.
Les
I am experiencing loud audio pops while playing Hauptwerk - but not at first. I can load an organ and it will play completely correctly for as much as a few days before these pops stat occurring. The pops are associated with specific pipes in specific ranks - and these always appear to be the same for a given loaded organ. If they happened from the start after loading, I would assume they were caused by discontinuities in the audio samples. Indeed, when they do occur, they appear in only one of the release samples if multiple ones are present.
If I reload the organ, the pops go away - for a day or so... The pops then come back after a time - in the same pipes as before.
I am running HW on a Mac mini 8, with 6 cores and 64 MB of RAM. I am running OSX 12.6 and HW 8.
I run no other applications on this machine - though it still has all the normal Apple operating system apps and is running mail. The machine is connected to the Internet.
I tend to play large sample sets because I have a huge organ console - however, I experience this problem even when there is more than 32 GB RAM still free - according to Hauptwerk.
I suspected a bad RAM chip, so I ran Apple's diagnostics ("D" mode") but everything passed the tests.
The problem has nothing to do with MIDI as I can trigger the problems on the screen using a mouse.
I just loaded the St. Anne organ to see if it exhibits the same behavior. I will have to wait a day or so to see if any pipes begin "popping." My theory is that this has nothing to do with the sample set and is, instead, a problem in RAM in some way.
Let me know if you have either experienced a similar problem or have any ideas I haven't yet tried.
Thanks in advance.
Les