Resonating spindle gallery

When my electronics expert friend returns from his holidays I’ll pick his brains to find out what’s possible.

Back to my resonating spindle gallery though. I’ve cleaned and adjusted everything and I’m still getting shuddering in X and Y directions (it may do it in Z too but I can’t tell). It’s as if the steppers aren’t running smoothly. I can’t think what else could be the trouble.
I’ve set the x-carve to cut a large circle in air and I can hear the motors vibrating. If I hold either y-axis gently I can feel them vibrating. It must be the motors vibrating because it’s at quite a high frequency.
Has anyone had any faults like this with the stepper motors?

Made a bit of progress (I think) on the shuddering steppers. I’ve updated the arduino Windows drivers and things seem to have calmed down. I’ll do some more tests but fingers crossed that was the problem.