Distorted/noisy audio

Elk Audio OS
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Hi,

Sometimes after running sushi and loading a plugin which causes some problems (segmentation faults or other things), when I run it again the audio output sounds distorted or simply outputs some sort of whitish noise. When this happens, a full power on/off cycle is needed to fix it, a simple reboot won’t do. I imagine this is because “something” stays in the ELK board, the ADCs and DACs maybe need some sort of reset. Is there a way to “clean” the hardware without powering it off? Maybe re-initializing audio drivers or something?

Thanks!

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Hey Frederick,

The driver continuously runs in the background regardless of sushi. Unfortunately, if sushi crashes, it does not cleanly deregister with the driver and so it’s left in a dirty state. As of now the best way is to do a complete power cycle to reset it properly. However, we are working towards fixing these cases and it might come soon with a newer software version.

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ok, thanks for your answer :slight_smile: