Below is a short story capturing the frustration of a producer facing this digital ghost. The Ghost in the Engine
“The audio device buffer underflowed. Try increasing the H/W Buffer Size. (AAE Error -9416)” aae error 9416 updated
Here’s what’s changed — and how to fix it for good. Below is a short story capturing the frustration
Yes. With the 2025 roadmap, Avid has acknowledged that the transition to full native Apple Silicon and the new Disk Cache algorithm introduced a regression. The error is not "dead" hardware—it is "stuck" software logic. aae error 9416 updated
The error is most frequently associated with the Elastic Audio engine failing to process audio clips in real-time.
: Using too many tracks with "Real-Time" Elastic Audio enabled. System Bottlenecks