I am getting crackling noise in the audio whenever I activate a sound from the library, even if it is a standalone instance of VE with only one instrument sounding, without even a DAW involved. The crackling sound is also in my recordings too. This is making me think it might be something related to the external drives holding the library, which is an external RAID 0 SATA drive. This is a rather recent problem, as I have been using this setup for about 2 years. I ran Disk Warrior as well with no luck. One disk does read almost 10 degrees hotter (not sure if that means anything). Some help on this would be GREATLY appreciated!
Rob
Mac Pro 8 core
External WD SATA RAID 0
Caldigit PCi card
Motu 828