Hello everyone. I recently purchased a Tascam US-1800 interface and have it installed on my Windows Vista 32bit PC with Cubase LE5 installed. Everything installed fine and it detects it as the primary playback/recording device, but I am having one huge problem. Whenever it is plugged in, there is a consistent, rhythmic popping sound in the headphones/speakers. I have gone into the control panel and adjusted settings, switched USB ports (they are USB 2.0 ports also), I've tried to update drivers (they were already the latest), tried all different settings in Cubase, everything I can think of. And it does this AT ALL TIMES, not just in Cubase. Weirdly, I ran TRacks on it's own (mastering software), because I remembered that I had some issues when first running TRacks with Audio not playing properly and was able to change the settings to make it work - and I set the Audio hardware settings to the US-1800 with DirectX (as opposed to ASIO) and loaded a .wav file, and it played it back perfectly through the US-1800.
What the hell is going on? I am at my wits end with this infernal popping. It seems to definitely be some issue with bitrate or latency, but despite all my efforts I can't get it to go away. I can't imagine it is an issue of the computer not being able to handle the interface, it is relatively new, I have 2 gigs of ram and I haven't even tried to record multiple tracks because I haven't been able to get this problem to go away (for example, when Windows loads and it makes the little opening musical sound, you can hear it playing in the bits and pieces of the pops, just all chopped up). Can anyone help? Thank you for your time, if anyone has any advice please get back to me when you get the chance.
Also, I had previously tried to set up the interface on another computer and it did the same exact thing, so if it makes any difference it is doing it on multiple machines. The other computer was also Vista 32 bit.
What the hell is going on? I am at my wits end with this infernal popping. It seems to definitely be some issue with bitrate or latency, but despite all my efforts I can't get it to go away. I can't imagine it is an issue of the computer not being able to handle the interface, it is relatively new, I have 2 gigs of ram and I haven't even tried to record multiple tracks because I haven't been able to get this problem to go away (for example, when Windows loads and it makes the little opening musical sound, you can hear it playing in the bits and pieces of the pops, just all chopped up). Can anyone help? Thank you for your time, if anyone has any advice please get back to me when you get the chance.
Also, I had previously tried to set up the interface on another computer and it did the same exact thing, so if it makes any difference it is doing it on multiple machines. The other computer was also Vista 32 bit.
