Removing clicks and pops

I see the manual makes reference to the program being able to remove clicks and pops in audio but I can't for the life of me find this option in any filters that came with the program.
Can anyone tell me where to find this filter?
Many thanks.
Steve

drag the file onto your icon form your dock. soundtrack will open up, i think it might be in the actions tab on the left. try this out.

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I tried to burn a CD for my car of songs I got from the music store but the CD had all sorts of pops and clicks. I tried to fix them in STP, but it is taking forever. Two questions, first will STP eventually fix the problem, and second, am I not supposed to burn these songs that I purchased to CDs?

The clicks and pops may be caused by iTunes "Sound Check" function ... this has been known to cause distortion ... to test if this is the cause turn off "Sound Check" by going to the menu, iTunes:Preferences...: then click on the "Playback" icon to bring up the Playback options pane ... if "Sound Check" is checked, uncheck it ... then try burning your CD again ... if "Sound Check" is the culprit your CD should playback OK ..
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I'm trying to remove clicks and pops, clipped signals and power line hum from an audio track (registered using an iPod mic in a big room so it's full of noises) with the latest Soundtrack Pro 2-
I did a Noise Reduction then applied the following Analysis: Clicks and Pops, Power Line Hum, Clipped Signal. After the processing, I click in each item in the list and fix it. The problem is that 90 per cent of the times the Click/Pop/Clipping is not fixed. I can see it alters the waveform but you hear pretty much the same thing as before...
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This is a tedious process you're trying to do. What it really comes down to is zooming out the audio until you have clicks and pops of about .5-1 sec. Then you really have to go over and over the really bad ones until you've covered it from all angles. What ultimately happens is you reveal layers of the pops. As you take out one layer another appears. When you isolate the problems they all begin to fix easier. The program is really very adept at finding the rest of a pop that only appeared partially on the surface at first.
Good question - patients is a prereq. virtue here: Good Luck.

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Hello All,
So I'm having multiple issues with my setup here as I'm preparing to go into a big film score and don't want to have these headaches once I start.
First problem, and this might be the easiest to solve, is when playing back I'm getting intermittent clicks, pops, distortions from my sampled instruments. I'm running about 7 - 8 instances of Vienna Instruments, about 12 instances of exs with various samples/old Vienna Library, two instances of Stylus RMX, two instances of StormDrum (2-3 patches each) and one instance of Ethno. In addition to this I'm running my giga setup via lightpipe, and a Roland 5080 via Midi. I'm also running the movie, full length and DV quicktime format. I have all my audio samples on one external firewire Glyph Drive, the video on another external firewire Glyph drive, and the project on an internal (separate from the System Drive) hard drive.
My initial idea was that these clicks and pops might be caused by a bottleneck on the sample drive. This drive I believe is running firwire 400. Are the amount of Samples I'm running too much for this drive? Would it help if I upgraded to firewire 800 or maybe got another internal drive running 10,000 rpms? Should I re-encode my movie so its not so hard on the drive bus but more processor intensive?
My other idea was that it might be a case of bad Ram. Checking Logics System Performance window, I was only showing 75% on one processor and 30% on the second processor. So I opened up the activity monitor to check out how much ram was being used and it showed only 3.17 gigs of ram used. Going back to Logic all pandemonium broke loose with my project.
Which brings me to my second problem...this project is having crazy sync sample rate issues. Everything is distorted and garbled being played back, Logic is returning an error sign saying that I'm not synced and showing a random sample rate (4168). Restarting my system and all the usual stuff (repairing disk permissions) helps not at all. Everything still sounds messed up. Removing the movie from the project lessens the distortion but the same sync error turns up. Opening up other projects, I don't run into these problems. I even opened the Autoload of this project and I didn't have this problem (other than the already mentioned clicks and pops).
Is this project corrupted beyond retrieval? Do I have to manually copy everything to another project? Why did opening the Activity Monitor set this off?
If you read through this long post and know any of these answers that would be awesome.
Here's the specs on my setup.
Dual 2Ghz G5
4 GB DDR SDRAM (8 x 12)
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro
2 Glyph Drives
Audio Sample Drive - 400mb/sec
Video Drive - 800mb/sec
Motu PCI - 2408 mk3
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TC Powercore
Everything slaved to an Apogee Big Ben at 48.
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Oh yeah Logic 7.2.1.
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Hi,maybe this can help:
In addition to this I'm running my giga setup via lightpipe,
Going into what? Logic Pro thru the Motu 2408? into a digital mixer?It is not clear how you route this.If the Motu is the clock master,and you route everything through it,you should slave the Giga playback card to it,and make sure the Giga card can and is synced properly.
My initial idea was that these clicks and pops might
be caused by a bottleneck on the sample drive.
Nope,highly unlikely. A bottleneck on a drive will only slow down a system.Unless you are using certain western Digital drives that shield their power and their FW grounds together...then the hum from the drive spining would be what you hear.
My other idea was that it might be a case of bad Ram.
Nope,highly unlikely either...you would simply have more crashes,and freezes.
Which brings me to my second problem...this project
is having crazy sync sample rate issues. Everything
is distorted and garbled being played back, Logic is
returning an error sign saying that I'm not synced
and showing a random sample rate (4168).
Sounds like you are not slaving the word clock correctly somewhere int he chain...but without knowing what sound card the Gigastudio is using,and how you have your word clock distributed,I can only offer the following:
Remember to make ONE and only ONE device the sample rate clock master,and slave the rest to it.
Please try to re-connect your word clock cables...and maybe even start by running only one device at a time,until you find the one that causes the problem.It might be a headache at first,but the only real way to troubleshoot this stuff is to go one by one piece of gear and find the bad one.Sometimes a bad word clock cable,bad power cord,bad grounding between devices,can cause all sorts of problems,including clocking issues.
i hope this helps,
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Dear Community,
I'm running into a problem with my Mac Pro 2008 for which I need urgent help.
I have a Mac Pro 2008 which I use to do some audio production and mixing.
I use 10.8 Mountain Lion for some time now, mainly with Avid Pro Tools 10 and Logic Pro 9.
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Sync set to "Internal"
To check you can go to Settings/Synchronization uncheck "Auto Enable external sync".
I'm guessing like most Mac users you have the operating system set to auto update, if so the system may have updated on it's own so you can't be sure you're running the same system that worked perfectly in the past.
I disable every "auto" b.s. Apple/OSX tries to force on users... for pro audio users, it generally causes problems.
Here's some things to try.
1. Set the Mac's audio preferences to use only built-in audio for both recording and playback. Do so in both System preferences/sound and Audio-MIDI Setup. Turn off the Mac, unplug and audio interface you have hooked up. Restart the Mac, Plug in an audio interfaces (doesn't matter which one) open Logic, go to Preferences Audio and select the installed interface, even if it's selected already, set buffer to 256.
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Default Clicks and pops, audio dropouts
I don't know if anyone else has this problem, but it's driving me crazy. I can't have any other program open while running soundtrack pro, even Activity Monitor, without getting clicks and pops and the occasional audio dropout. These issues are not present in the audio file -- they are digital artifacts that seem to only be an issue in STP.
The multitrack project I'm using was created from a sequence in FCP, and when playing the original sequence in FCP, there were no audio problems.
It doesn't appear to be an issue with my amount of RAM (2GB) because Activity Monitor was showing over 70% free. The processor (2.66 Intel Core Duo) doesn't look like it's being taxed all that much. Is there some kind of buffer setting that I should change? It's obnoxious. Every time I use some other application (Mail, Firefox, Acrobat reader etc.) I have to restart the computer before opening up Soundtrack again.
Also, has anyone noticed that it takes a loooooong time to save a project?

I notice quite a bit of issues with RAM as well. I just went up to 7 Gig to have some extra for the OS and my project just hit 3.7G of RAM which of course STP couldn't handle and it wont save and sometimes beach balls.
So, I've split my project into two projects for now and will continue to do so even more if the memory footprint keeps increasing. There is some really poor memory management happening related to duplicate clips. Hopefully they are aware of it and do something OR figure out how to use 64-bit memory space like EXS in Logic.

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