Question about a crackling sound on FL

Hey Brianmed - to upload a song of yours, just login and then click Create Content > Music on the little user menu under your username to the left,

Sounds to me like your cpu/soundcard is struggling with all the extra audio processing required. What sort of soundcard do you have installed? And under your FL audio preferences, what Device do you have enabled? If you have an ASIO device as an option, try selecting that and it should be way better.

If you don't have an ASIO option available (some soundcards are not ASIO capable), then you will see a silder bar labeled Buffer Length. Slide it towards the right a bit, increasing the buffer size. This will help remove the crackling, which is not volume related, but is the sound of the system not being able to process all the complicated audio fast enough - which is why adding a buffer helps smooth things out.

What sort of sound card do you have? If your soundcard doesn't support ASIO mode, but its listed for some reason as an option, it won't output any audio, as your soundcard needs to have the actual ASIO hardware built into it.

I should point out that ASIO4ALL is in a category of its own... its a software emulated version of the true (hardware) ASIO mode that most musician-targeted cards have. Some people find ASIO4ALL very useful at improving the performance of their Creative soundcard for example - while some people have problems using the ASIO4ALL in the first place.

Hmmm that seems to be a TV tuner video in/out card - with sound support too of course. Under sound devices menu, can you select anything else?

Can you list all the available options you see under FL options for audio devices?

Ah ok, Realtek is onboard audio... integrated into your motherboard. Its not designed for musicians :) I also would guess that ASIO4ALL wouldn't work with Realtek - its mainly designed for people with consumer cards made by Creative etc.

However, I'm pretty sure that selecting one of the Realtek options there which DOES output audio, and increasing the buffer slider should give you a workable FL setup.... as long as you're not trying to use external midi keyboards etc (which won't work at all well because of the increased latency).