I'm getting this stair-step effect apon playback and rendering. For example let's say I have a EQ sweeping a sine wave, I can clearly hear several points per second where it jumps in setting when it should be a transition. The funny thing is, when I playback in a loop, the second time it's played it is smooth as expected! And also when making real-time effects changes I don't hear any problems.

Is this a ASIO thing perhaps!? or is there a simple setting I've overlooked. I'm working with a trial version to see if it's worth upgrading from v3. I suppose I could just render realtime onto another track using my loop method (but what a bummer having to wait 2x the song length to get the final render!)