Here's some troubleshooting tricks of the trade—helpful hints that are easy to implement and easy on the budget, shared by your engineering colleagues. One of the important functions of patchbays, or ...

While watching a YouTube video, you might unexpectedly run into an error accompanied by a message, "Audio renderer error. Please restart your computer." This error ...

We often get flooded with emails from readers attempting to troubleshoot why their home theater systems no longer work correctly. This assumes at one point your system was operating correctly but has ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: About every 3 weeks my audio does not work. I have Windows 11 after Microsoft upgraded me to 11. Now audio ...

In this final section I'll present some MIDI-specific troubleshooting tips, along with a brief description of the setup here at StudioDave, a few closing remarks, and of course some links to the Linux ...

Microsoft will remove the MSDT (Microsoft Support Diagnostic Tool) by 2025. This is because of the vulnerabilities found in MSDT in the past few years. Now, Microsoft has decided to retire MSDT-based ...

Under fortuitous conditions, systems may be acceptably quiet in spite of poor techniques. But physics will ultimately rule and noises may appear for no apparent reason! Once we understand how earthing ...

We previously noted some stability issues with M-Audio's Revolution 7.1 audio card (the only PCI-X compatible card currently offered by the company). Now MacFixIt reader Jeff Johnson reports that the ...

Noise issues In our continuing coverage of the Power Mac G5 noise issue, it appears that Apple technical support is recommending a PMU (power management unit) reset to some customers who are having ...

At last we reach the final installment of this series, the question & answer stage in which we'll consider some of the common problems encountered with audio and MIDI on Linux, along with some common ...