Getting random digital noise with SBLive

[williamconifer]

Greetings I am new to cakewalk. I am using homestudio 2002 with a Soundblaster Live card running the APS driver and what is happening is after I am using cakewalk for about 5 minutes I get one bell like sound and then 10 seconds later a whole bunch of random digital noise and sounds. I actually heard it going through all of the drum sounds I had loaded. I have tried setting the sample rate to both 44,100 and 48,000 and the same problem rears it ugly head. If I click a button like say, setting an audio input from the SBLive synth to none the sound stops and then 5 mins or so later starts up again. In other words no channel has an input set to the SB Synth and I still get the noise. I can record in Acid Pro with no problem. What's wrong here?

Thanks

[Paul881]

Presumably, if the "random" sounds are not coming from HS2002, it must be from another program that is playing/acessing simultaneously thru your s/c. Are the sounds real or are they just white noise?

Please describe your exact set-up, it might help some of the guru's on this forum to track your problem down.

One thing you could try is deleting all programs running simultaneuosly with HS2002 (ALT/CTRL/DEL and then "end task"). You must leave "explorer" and "systray" running but "end task"all the others.

Best of luck!

[Blue Bear Sound]

Sounds like you have midi devices responding to midi events coming from CW.... set specific midi channels for any external midi devices you have.

Bruce

[williamconifer]

Thanks for the feedback. Here is what I am running typically: CW HS2002, Acid Pr3.0, Soundblaster Live card running the E-mu APS driver. I usually have the APS mixer running and the APS sounfont bank manager running. When working in HS2002 I usually deselect the SBsynths A&B in ACID (preferences|midi) to avoid a conflict.

Late last night I gave up on getting the exact sound I wanted into the computer so I closed down HS2002 and just recorded audio directly into Acid. After a while (30 mins or so) i started getting the noise. The noise BTW is spurts of white noise, ditgital distortion, and super fast and short snipets of sounds that are loaded into the card.

The reason I was running acid along with HS2002 is that I was listening to my project in Acid and then recording Midi into HS2002 then rendering to audio for loops to use in Acid. Tis a cumberson way to do it.

Question for BLUE BEAR: You said "set specific midi channels for any external midi devices you have. " When you say external do you mean outside my computer? The only external midi device is my roland keyboard controller which inputs into the compter. Please be painfully obvious, I am a computer geek but Midi is still real new to me.

Thanks again.
Jack