Hello M.G.,

It does sound like you have pinned down the problem to memory allocation for the SoundBlaster Font Manager.

Please keep us posted about your testing about how different memory allocation values affect the pop noises and crashes.

Please remind me, how much memory does your system have?

This was a painful experience you went through to pin down this problem with the SoundBlaster Font Manager. Perhaps one consolation here is that we'll write a summary of the soundfont memory problem and solution, so that others can benefit from what you learned.

Cheers
-- Mark