Fixes for silence, crackling, missing devices and streams, and the messages Routling shows.
Most problems are explained in ⋮ → Activity log.
| Problem | Fix |
|---|---|
| No sound | Follow the meters: a still input meter is the wrong channel or source; a still output meter is a missing wire, a muted Volume Knob or a Switcher set that is off |
| Sound in one ear | An ASIO channel is mono - wire both the left and the right output node |
| DAW audio is slow and low-pitched, or fast and high | The DAW's sample rate differs from Routling's. In the DAW's audio settings, pick the rate shown in Routling's device menu (Virtual ASIO) |
| Crackling | Raise the buffer size in the toolbar. Only a Windows device crackling? Raise Preferences → Devices → Secondary Device Buffer and reconnect it |
| No ASIO Channels in the menu | No ASIO driver is installed. Install your interface's driver, then right-click → Refresh Devices |
| "Failed to open device" | Another app holds the ASIO interface. Close it and try again; Routling keeps running on the built-in clock meanwhile |
| A device disappeared | Its node waits as a placeholder and reconnects when the device returns. Refresh Devices forces a rescan |
| No Routling I/O folder | The WDM driver is not installed - run the installer with it selected |
| No network streams | Set the network to Private in Windows on both PCs; check Announce this PC's streams on the sender and the same Discovery port on both. Over a VPN, add the PC under Remote PCs |
| Network audio drops out | Preferences → Network → Latency → Safe |
| A plugin will not load | It must be a 64-bit VST2 or VST3. Routling shows a dialog with the reason |
| "An audio driver crashed" / "Routling closed unexpectedly" | A driver crashed or froze. Routling recovers and starts empty that launch so it cannot crash again. Update or reinstall the driver it names |
| A session will not load | Loading needs Pro (Preferences → License). Saved files are never deleted |