My thoughts are that it's related to the "generic" soundcard and ASIO4ALL.

What exactly is the name of this generic card? In helping people through the years in the cakewalk forums, most of the stuttering issues were directly related to the sound card brand, the driver it used, and the settings for buffers and latency.

Stutters are often the result of the card not being able to process the data in real time and get it to the speakers on time. Other audio issues are also included in this same scenario.

If your card is some off brand, I'd suggest replacing it with a Focusrite or even a Presonus or M-Audio that meets your needs and runs NATIVE ASIO vs the A4A wrapper. I think that would be a viable solution. I don't know of many folks and none offhand that use a good brand name interface, ASIO, and have issues with pops, clicks, crops, and stutters.

The crazy thing is that an off brand car like yours can often seemingly work well for a period of time and then just start doing what yours is doing. Often, it was running right on the edge the whole time and then something happens in the software, maybe an update, or something else and it's enough to divert processing power to something else and the sound card suffers as a result. This generally doesn't occur with dedicated interfaces.

Of course.... I might be totally off base on this but I kinda think this is the problem you are experiencing and how it can be solved.

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