Cakewalk Problem, Help!

[tddrummer]

I've been using cakewalk to record some small acoustic demos to get a feel of the program. After recording 2 simple songs something screwed up.

I set an arm for recording, and then I press record, then I get a sort of hissing and popping that wasnt there before (i previously had a nice clear recording). It even happens with no line in plugged up, but goes away when I turn the soundcard down.

I've done several things to solve the problem, and expected a simple solution, but I'm having difficulties. I've tried uninstalling, and re-installing the program=no solution, still have popping. It is so severe that the audio I record fluctuates up and down and really sounds horrible.

The problem also happens when I import a file into cakewalk, and it dosn't occur on my other software, so I dont think it's a soundcard problem.

Please someome help! I really like this program, and really want to use it in the future. Thanks

[rayc]

Which cakewalk program?

[warble2]

As asked already, what Cakewalk program?

PC?
What operating system?
What soundcard?
Have you installed the latest drivers for the soundcard?

This is just to get started helping you.

[moskus]

Your recorded wav-files are still OK (if you play them in some other program than "cakewalk")?

Have you run the audio profiler lately?

[tddrummer]

I'm pretty shure its cakewalk music creator 3 (im at school right now)..I use a PC (dell)..im not quite shure what an audio profiler is...but I have recorded audio on the "sound recorder" program that comes with the computer and the problem didnt happen, so I'm shure it cant be the sound card, can it?

[acidrock]

Could it possibly be a hardware problem?I would eliminate that possibility right off the bat.
Also check your input routing,are you getting sound,just hiss or both?

[tddrummer]

Both, I have cakewalk music creator 2 as well and it works fine so the problem is only on this one...definetly not hardware

[moskus]

Check Tools -> Audio and look for the "Audio Profiler".

[tddrummer]

mine dosnt list audio profiler any other suggestions...i really want to fix this.

[kgirl72]

You are probably using the asio drivers. In the second tab, find where you can switch to wdm mode. You'll have to close down the program I think. Then when it opens up, it will run the wave profiler. I am NOwhere near moskus et al on Sonar, but I know this will show the wave profiler, unless I'm a nutjob. But, also, I use Sonar PE 6.2 so I may be unfamiliar with your version of software.

[moskus]

The problem is that it is not Sonar we are discussing, it's Music Creator.

For all I know it doesn't have a Audio Profiler (but I find it unlikely if it supports audio)...