Crackling sound with playback on Mac
On my iMac Musecore produces crackling noise on playback. Usually the crackling diminishes when repeating the song.
I happens with all files. It is worse when the score is more complex.
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Could it be a problem of insufficient resources?
See also: https://musescore.org/en/node/271020
In reply to Could it be a problem of… by Shoichi
I have al late 27 inch 2015 iMac, 8GB DDR3
Should be Powerful enough
My 2010 Macbook Air performs well.
In reply to I have al late 27 inch 2015… by Edel Maex
Tried https://musescore.org/en/handbook/revert-factory-settings ?
In reply to Tried https://musescore.org… by Shoichi
Thank you much better now.
In reply to Thank you much better now. by Edel Maex
You're welcome.
Also if installed MDL (on 2.3.2) remove the soundfonts in View/Synthesizer/Zerberus
https://musescore.org/en/node/274881#comment-846948
Buona musica!
In reply to You're welcome… by Shoichi
It helped for one day and it started over again.
In reply to It helped for one day and it… by Edel Maex
Did you perhaps turn up the volume meanwhile? That would be the main cause of audio distortion. Go back to View / Synthesizer and turn the volume back down. If you need to hear things louder, turn up your overall system or speaker volume, don't use the volume control in MuseScore. It's already set by default to be about as loud as it can be without distorting.
In reply to It helped for one day and it… by Edel Maex
Didn't touch the volume. Didn't open the synthesizer.
In reply to Didn't touch the volume… by Edel Maex
OK, then even though you say it happens with "all scores", it could be that all the scores you create have something in common (other than the fact that they were presumably created by you), so in order to try to diagnose the problem, we'd need you to attach one of the problem scores.
In reply to OK, then even though you say… by Marc Sabatella
Two simple exercises
In reply to Two simple exercises by Edel Maex
I don't know if it'll help you. Here are two fake *.mscz.
Save them, right-click rename as *.MP3
is what I hear here...
In reply to Could it be a problem of… by Shoichi
I have the same problem on the latest 15-inch MacBook Pro 2018 (Core i7 at 2.6GHz, 16GB of RAM, Radeon Pro 560X) whereas my 13-inch MacBook from 2016 seems to be okay. The crackling sound is quite loud when the dedicated GPU is not active (when I switch apps for example), but it almost disappears when the dedicated GPU is active (it just happens when I switch to another note WHILE playing). I know that the nightly builds activate the dedicated GPU by default but it is quite annoying because there are some layout issues with the nightly builds. I am currently using this soundfont: SGM-v2.01-SMP-Sal-JNv1.3.sf2 .
This my problem, too. I have given up on hope for a fix, and have simply gotten used to it.
In reply to This my problem, too. I have… by [DELETED] 1831606
So do I
I just installed OS version Mojave, and have played several scores without any spurious artifacts. But when I installed High Si months ago, there were a couple of good days, too, before the problem recurred. Let's hope ....
In reply to I just installed OS version… by [DELETED] 1831606
Back to the same. Maybe marginally better / less frequent. So that's the workaround -- reinstall the operating system when it gets bad : (
I had/have the same problem on my Dell/Linux/Ubuntu.
After reloading file, retrieving old non corrupt file, relaunching muse3, rebooting, changing earbuds/speaker, uninstalling muse3, reloading fresh musescore3...still had problem. Then...
I wrote another four bars X two instruments in another tab (with original scratchy file still open). When I realized the 'scraties' were gone, I tabbed over to the original scratchy composition (still open) and the scratches were totally gone!
In the five or so months of working with Musescore's 2 & 3 I've never had a problem with Muse on Windows. Makes you think.
Ray Stoddard
The playback is really disturbing if there is a certain amount of instruments or more; I cannot say how many.
But, trying to playback the same score with Musescore 2.3.2, and, guess what: no problem at all.
So I think this proves that this is an issue regarding Musescore 3, and not the machines of everybody that's facing the issue.
Tried both with a 2012 Macbook Pro.
Still happening in MuseScore 3 (macOS 10.15, Arch.: x86_64, MuseScore version (64-bit): 3.4.2.25137, revision: 148e43f). Seems it hasn't been fixed or understood.
In reply to Still happening in MuseScore… by Steven C Davis
Well, it's partially understood, and there 8was* a fix made that should be in 3.4.2 that should help in general, and reports are that it does for most people. Could still be that a small number of users are on systems with other unique properties (low RAM, slow disk for paging, high CPU usage, etc) and are still seeing some vestiges of this, though. Can you share more about your system details?
Same problem, with early 2016 Macbook 1.1 Ghz m3 8Gb, less powerful but it seems like this a common problem among Macs. maybe there's a capacitor or smth that handles audio output and the registered playback is too much for the mac to handle as instead of one sound, their many sounds, (which is why the problem doesn't occur during website playback) i guess its just bad engineering
In reply to Same problem, with early… by kirby.dreams
I still have it, too, 2018 Mac with 16Gb, latest Catalina, MS 3.5.0. I find that playing the music a second time generally improves it (i..e., it may have to do with paging stuff in).
The crackling noise appears on all platforms, if you have more than one score open.
Close all the scores you are not using and it goes away.
In reply to The crackling noise appears… by axelfacebook
I use an Apple machine too and have had this problem on score for violin and piano. Every time the piano has the pedal down for more than a beat or two the crackling appears and gets louder until it drowns the music completely. taking the pedal markings away makes the crackling go away completely.
I help myself by saving the file as mp3 and listening to that.
I'm not sure if your problem has been fixed, but I just tried deleting the MuseScore.sf3 soundfont and reinstalling it. My Mac's audio is nice and crisp again!
In reply to I'm not sure if your problem… by Peixeman
I'm not sure I've had this recur since I installed Big Sur.
In reply to I'm not sure if your problem… by Peixeman
How do you do that! Could please share how to delete and reinstall the font?
In reply to How do you do that! Could… by ivchodimov
See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/soundfonts-and-sfz-files#install