Trying to get to the bottom of this. The attached file plays a sample through Audacity and is followed by what it should sound like through an audio player app. I tried rolling back to previous versions of Audacity, but they don’t work. This is a clean install of the MOTU, it’s software and a fresh install of Audacity. I’m currently using WavePad, which works fine, but I desperately want Audacity back!
Coming back to this with version 3.0.0 (better late than never!)
I had hoped the issue was resolved, but it seems it’s not an Audacity issue, but more to do with the MOTU. Given they’re 6-months late (so far) releasing drivers for macOS Big Sur, I see now how things work at MOTU. All they did when asked about this issue was blame macOS and Audacity. However, ragging on MOTU isn’t the point of this post: gila_crisis’ tip fixed it! I set the buffer to 50ms as suggested and playback is as it should be.
Thank you!
I recorded the output of my Mac with Audacity playing a file, then an ordinary music player app (Pine Player) playing a file. Audacity was choppy, Pine Player played the file as expected.
Audacity’s device buffer length was set at 100ms as default. I had to come down to 50ms from 100ms to solve the issue rather than up from 0ms, but same difference really. Thanks!