I'm trying out the VirtualJV vst3 plugin and I'm getting extremely noticeable sound artifacts on pretty much every instrument. I thought maybe it's a problem with my latency settings, but there are no latency settings for this plugin and it plays the pops and cracks identically each time I play the identical notes - that means they're baked in somewhere and not coming from my side.

Has anyone else experienced this? Been able to fix it?

 

EDIT FORGET THIS:
3. Strange ground hum issue with JV-880
- It might be picking up magnetically induced hum from something nearby with a big mains transformer.
- Identify what that might be, and move your JV far away from it.

Please read all the comments: www.soundonsound.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=85189

 

Last edited: May 19, 2026 at 3:58 PM

@Meteo Xavier

What host (DAW) do you use?

 

Huh?! The OP is talking about a plugin, not a real piece of hardware. The plugin is even called "VirtualJV". He doesn't have a real JV880.

VirtualJV can have some issues with it's internal resampling - the hardware (and therefore also the emulation) runs at 32KHz, which needs to be resampled to your host's native sample rate. It's easier to resample to 48KHz than 44.1KHz, so there seem to be fewer resampling artifacts at 48KHz - if you're running at 44.1KHz, try switching to 48KHz, and seeing whether that is the issue.

The resampling algos will get improved when the plugin ultimately gets rewritten, for now it's a sort of prototype thing - it is what it is, but it's certainly useable enough here.

 

Pulsewave doesn't know how to communicate without having an LLM think for them. which is why you will regularly see them chiming in with comments that are void of context of the thread in question, or any old bollocks really. they might as well be a ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude symbiote at this point. who is parasitically feeding of whom though. has Pulsewave been infected by the LLM mind virus, or has their mundanity actually infected the LLM. it could go either way

 

the last "answer" #3 could be blamed on using an LLM, but the first two are suggestions because he assumes the crackling noise is caused by too low of a buffer setting or missing windows dependency. Don't blame AI for that, even though it is probably wrong too.

The OP basically spells out it is not clicking and crackling caused by buffer, because that kind of artifacts are never predictable. The JV880 was basically a rompler, which would point you to either the original sample having that noise in it, or a problem between the rom->emulator->DAW as @dkny already suggested. The problem is almost never actually an AI related issue. It's because he doesn't read the original post.

 

Hello @Meteo Xavier, have you installed this latest version yet?
Giulio Zausa VirtualJV (Roland JV-880 Emulator) + ROMS v1.0.0 (05.12) WiN Mac [FREE]
05/12 Fix clipping

The error likely lies not with you, but with the plugin; it is still in the testing phase. You can, of course, change your sample rate and see if that helps. One user wrote that they switched from 48 kHz to 41 kHz.

NOTE (Windows): If you are having troubles with Windows 10, it's possible you need to install the Visual C++ 2022 Redistributable.
www.techpowerup.com/download/visual-c-redistributable-runtime-package-all-in-one/

 

Last edited: May 19, 2026 at 3:39 PM

AI would have given the correct answer though. that is the main difference.

 

No, not noticed any issues.

 

Try one of these combinations of sample rate & buffer size and see if that fixes it for you:

44100: 16
44100: 128
44100: 256
44100: 512
48000: 16
48000: 64
48000: 256
48000: 1024
48000: 4096
88200: 16
88200: 32
88200: 256
88200: 512
88200: 1024
96000: 32
96000: 128
96000: 512
96000: 2048
96000: 8192

(Trying one of these is enough, either they all work or none of them work)