After countless years of making music on the computer, I still find myself losing time by ending up down the rabbit hole, trying to remove a pop from looped sub/sine etc.
Sometimes, I get it quickly. Other times, I look up and over a half hour has passed and I'm still hearing an annoying pop when the sample is re-triggered.
I'm aware of zero point, attack/release, re-trigger enable, snap, glide etc
I work in Ableton Live Suite 11
And yet here I am....

Anyhow, posting for mostly humor and hoping I'm not the only one.

 

So, what software and DAW are you using?

It looks like you haven't quite figured it out yet. Tell us what you're using—a screenshot would be helpful, too.
You'll soon stop wasting those half-hour chunks of time, provided you're willing to put in a little effort.

We'll find the problem...!

 

Thanks for the reply,

I'm using Ableton Live Suite 11
I find this happening, mostly with sampled sines/sub bass in Simpler and Sampler.
Sometimes, it's bada bing bada boom and a minute later I'm good. Others, not.
I've messed with all the normal approaches, at times and still hear that little annoying sound.
One trick I've used is to crossfade manually in arrangement view, 2/4/8/16 of the sample until I can't hear it and then put that consolidated file into the sampler. I guess the other fix is shortening the midi note just a minute amount so it's not against the next.
I'm putting this out there because after a few decades of doing this, I always find someone else has an angle on things, I missed somehow.
I'm hardly a novice but I'm also interested in learning something new, every day.

 

I'll add, this is a sample based topic. I'm fine with synthesis. Operator etc.

 

Bounce the sound to a simple WAV, stick that in a wave editor (Sound Forge, Wavelab, something like that). Inspect the waveform at maximum zoom for clicks. Edit if necessary. Put that into Simpler (one-shot, zero attack, max sustain, a few ms of release) and see what comes out.

 

Hi @Artvandelay, how about this: Create Fades on Clip Edges to avoid clicks
https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/articles/209069969-Create-Fades-on-Clip-Edges-to-avoid-clicks

 

To be clear, this only is an issue when I want like a sine sub to loop seamlessly with no rest. As far as triggering melodies with samples, it's not an issue.

 

It's funny, I was thinking about this a few minutes ago. I have the option turned off default, obviously to retain punch and attack.
But maybe for the sake of sound design this could help create a seamless track to resample.