Crackle problem, please help

[Maria]

Hi Everyone!
I am using DIGI9652 with Cubase SX. Since I don't have analogue I/O, I use my existing Alesis HD24 as my AD/DA converter which works perfectly well. But when I transferred the ADAT Optical cable to the tape-based ADAT XT20, I now hear crackle. I increased the number and size of the buffer, and made sure that the card's clock mode is set to 'Master' but still no change. Why is it working perfectly well on the HD24 and not the ADAT XT20 and would anyone please tell me what else shall I do to get rid of the crackles?

Best regards,

Maria

[quattro_xxph]

I have a similar problem. I just installed an Audiophile 2496 on my system which is:

P3 500Mhz
Program Drive: 10G 5400 rpm Seagate
Audio Drive: 20G 7200 rpm Seagate
Windows 98SE
192MB SD RAm
Cakewalk HS2002

Before I was using a Diamond MX400 card and everything was fairly stable. I have tweaked the system.ini, virtual memory usage, and no other programs aside from Explorer, DSSAgent and SysTray are running in the background. DMA on all drives are ON, and all Auto Insert Notifications are OFF. When I installed the Audiophile I used the latest drivers from their website instead of the ones in the cd. It installed fine but now Im getting clicks and pops when I record. I record at 16-44.1khz and I record one track at a time (no plug-ins, DXi, nothing!). I experimented with an old project which already had 7 tracks. When I recorded the 8th track (a lead guitar solo) I had some very irritating clicks and pops. I adjusted the Audiophile's levels such that it wont clip, I adjusted my mixer levels so it barely touches red so Im sure its not clipping. I checked the IRQ no and it was at 12. It said that there was another device at that assignment which is called something like "PCI steering" and I dont know if theres anything I could do to adjust that. When I look at my drivers in HS2002, I still see the drivers of my old card, so I disabled that card itself from the hardware profile and ran the CW wave profiler. Still clicking and popping!

I adjusted the buffers and latency settings on Cakewalk HS2002 to the safest and put that buffer thingy at 16 which is the maximum. I then went to "Advanced" on the Audio options of CWHS2002 and put the level in I/O Buffer settings to as high level of 1056 and even tried to raise it as much as the software will accept. Still clicking. I then tweaked the Audiophile latency buffer to its maximum level since I dont use input monitoring anyway, I can care less if the latency is ten years! Still clicking!

No syncing problems whatsoever with the Audiophile, and sound quality is clearly better than my old card. HOWEVER, there are random clicks and pops and its driving me nuts!

Right now I plan to:

-Add more RAM
-Uninstall the old soundcard completely and put the Audiophile in its slot (the old card used the IRQ no 5)
-Defrag (but I just did this last week, but I do remember recording and mastering in that time)

What else can I possibly do? PLEASE SAVE ME!!

[This message has been edited by quattro_xxph (edited 11-06-2002).]

[This message has been edited by quattro_xxph (edited 11-06-2002).]