Random milliseconds of Silence in Audio playback on Mac M1

Several users using audio interfaces from the high end studio manufacturer RME Audio experience problems with audio playback in Cubase, Logic, Protools, Safari, Spotify and other apps. Some have reported that disabling system sounds help. Others have problems without system sounds. The manufacturer RME claims this is caused by Apples changes in the Ventura OS. This situation has been going on for many months and Apples support said they were not aware of this problem and suggested updating OS to latest version or swapping USB ports.

The problem is that in middle of playback some bits are lost and a short break of some milleseconds or ut to a second of silence occurs before audio returns. This has been noticed on several different computers with M1 chips.

Problem remains.

Posted on Mar 15, 2023 10:55 PM

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Apr 5, 2023 09:33 PM in response to Andreas1973

I'm having these problems also (Mac Studio Ultra and MacBook Pro M1Max).

After updating to OS 13.3 I did think the problem was solved, but after a few days the problem returned.

It's enough to make Pro Tools stop playback... even with no plugins and no load.

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Apr 5, 2023 10:20 PM in response to mattrixxAustralia

Thank you for adding your situation. Hope Apple take notice and fix this some time.

Apr 5, 2023 10:46 PM in response to Andreas1973

I have had lengthy discussions with Apple support about this for quite a while now.

I am surprised no one's come up with a solution.

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Apr 5, 2023 10:48 PM in response to mattrixxAustralia

It is sad. Seems like there are products from different brands with this problem for a long period of time.

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Random milliseconds of Silence in Audio playback on Mac M1