I've never known Time machine to provoke it, but Spotlight indexing could have to with it, fi.
Network seems to be well isolated too. Sleep an Speed stepping are two others that sometimes create havoc.
Audio Pops During Playback
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and the exact three-section version number of Audacity from "Audacity menu > About Audacity".
Audacity 1.2.x and 1.3.x are obsolete and no longer supported. If you still have those versions, please upgrade at https://www.audacityteam.org/download/.
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Re: Audio Pops During Playback
I haven't tried higher buffer settings in Ableton. In fact, in the setup in preferences it only allows 32,64,18,256,512,and 1024 samples @ 48kHz so mine is set to 512 with a total round-trip latency (Input + Output) = ~24ms.
Everything came crumbling down when I upgraded Yosemite to El Capitan and my Motu via USB was not working. This led me down the path of purchasing the FireWire to Thunderbolt adapter and connecting the Motu that way. Prior to this, my Motu was connected via USB and Audacity worked just fine even with the default 100ms.
All is well for now.
Jeff
Everything came crumbling down when I upgraded Yosemite to El Capitan and my Motu via USB was not working. This led me down the path of purchasing the FireWire to Thunderbolt adapter and connecting the Motu that way. Prior to this, my Motu was connected via USB and Audacity worked just fine even with the default 100ms.
All is well for now.
Jeff