Soundcard,programs or me

[Dave Hoskins]

Hi
4 month ago i purchased a pentium 4 ,2.8ghz, ighz ram, intel chipset, and a m-audio audiophile 2496 sound,card so its quite an up todate computer for music i`m still having problems with the audio side,setting the sample rate from 128 to 2048 makes no differance to the stuttering i`m getting, i can input a midi file of 7 channels and it will play fine, try to record a audio track and every 2 to 3 secs you get a glitch erase the audio and it plays fine, if you record the audio but without any intrument playing, it still has the same effect,i have read and read the manual for cubase sx and cubasis v5 and the Maudio 2496 manual without success, and i`m getting the same results in Band in a box,you can play biab files okay but when you try to add audio it has the same stuttering effect,i`ve tried most of the tweaks that different peple have said to no avail,i have also made sure the input sounds are not to strong,i`ve even had them so low you can hardly hear the sounds,but does not make any differance,i have tried all the programs on a win98se computer and they all play fine without problems,now is it the soundcard,the programs or me hope somebody can come up with an idea because i have not got a clue,thanks for reading this.
regards Dave Hoskins

[dees]

Your computer should be capable of handling many tracks. Here a just a couple of things that have helped me in the past that may or may not help you.

It sounds like some device in your PC is hogging the PCI/AGP bus. Make sure your video card drivers are up to date. You may want to try to lower the acceleration of the card.

Perform an assessment of IRQ usage in your box. You may want to find another slot in your computer to see if you can find a less utilized IRQ.

Try disabling different on-board devices to see if they are the possible culprit of your system bottleneck. Popular problem devices are ethernet, USB and hard drive controllers. If you can trace the problem back to these devices a Main Board bios update or PCI based replacment may be in order.

Good Luck

D

[Samplecraze]

What OS are you using? Sounds like it could be a driver issue or a buffer size problem.

[samigascon]

clicks on maudio every 2-3 seconds is usually cause for two things....

a high PCI latency setting on BIOS... setup it to 32 instead of default 64

or

what dees said... acceleration of the card... go to screen properties, and is problem solution, move the slide FULLY to the left... reset the computer and will be everything ok

Of course, setup the card for testing purpuose to a buffer of 256 or more and disable ASIO turbo mode if you can.

in cubase... disable de "low latency mode" because is a source of glitches especially when using some plugins

[Dave Hoskins]

thanks all for taking a intrest in my problem,since i put the question on the forum i have taken every thing off except cubasis 5 i have nothing else conneted like the internet or any cards,
and i have found the click within cubasis is clicking in time with the light of the hard drive,i am using win xp,hope this tells you more, thank for your help,to me it looks like a hardware problem,the hard drive is one of the lastest seagate 7200 rpm ata
regards Dave Hoskins

[samigascon]

well... did you tried what I said? If yes... just tell us what mainboard are you using

[Dave Hoskins]

hi samigascon
i`ve checked the latency in the bios and it was set to 32,i`ve all ready set the accelaration to low when idid quite a few tweaks,and the last part i`m not useing cubase ,i`m using cubasis 5 at the moment and can not find any referance to low latency mode,the motherboard is a ABIT BH7 with intel chipset and a Seagate Barracuda 7200 hard drive,the whole computer was copied from a top computer seller as a good computer for music.thanks for your advice i`m more a musician that a computer buff so its all very welcome
regards Dave Hoskins

[Bops2000]

Sounds like windows 2000, or older for starters

[Dave Hoskins]

Hi
since i last posted i`ve been investigating different things like my system according to Maudio is fine,i have tried the soundcard on a different computer and it works fine without any sign of distortion so it looks as though it i`st the soundcard,but soon as i put it back into my new computer it is unusable,so i`m still totally in the dark to what it is,any ones has any idea`s if it was the motherboard what it could be,or the disc drive,thanks for reading this
regards Dave Hoskins

[Matthew Skinner]

This link should help fix the click and pop problem..

http://www.pcmus.com/clicknpops.htm

[Dave Hoskins]

thanks Matthew i been to your site and there`s enough there to keep me occupied for some time although only having one program running and nothing else shoud cut out most things,one thing i have noticed that the clicks are in time with the hard drive light does that mean anything, thanks for your help i will try everthing thats applicable
regards Dave Hoskins

[Bops2000]

i guess the op system is moot...
thank you for deliberately wasting my time

[Dave Hoskins]

Hi bops2000
When your new on forums like i am and you don`t know what one is doing you don`t pick up one very bodys idea`s ,i`m sorry but i never deliberatly waste any body`s time, i still have the fault that i came on to this forum for and i`ve tried every thing thats been said, so if you have a different idea what it is i will be grateful, sorry for being a beginner
regards Dave Hoskins

[samigascon]

Ok, I had the same problem with the hard drive light with my SIS chipset on a AMD... I changed the from ACPI mode to STANDARD mode and everything worked all right. Later I changed that fu*** motherboard :_)

[Bops2000]

Dave
I was teasing -never take it personal.
That line "thank you for..." was from monty python.
Did you check the sound card buffer settings?
Depending on the op system, check the virtual memory settings.
Perhaps its the CACHE in the motherboard, I am just throwing out straws..

[Dave Hoskins]

Hi folks
just thought i would let you know i finally over come my problems ,first i had the wrong connectors when i changed to 80 wire 40 pin it jumped from ata 33 to ata 100 which was a good start, then we reformatted and then put a new winXP and that did the trick, something had gone wrong with my installation of XP and doing doinf what we did sorted the problems, thanks for your intrest it gets one thinking and this is probaly the best way forward
regards Dave Hoskins