Annoying Popping!! PLEASE Help.

[Fender]

Hi.I'm working on some important recordings and I'm getting a pretty serious problem. I just got cubase 3.7 and am using a darla card. I got all my plug-in's installed and this is the problem: Later in my session in Cubase I get this loud popping and clicking type noise in my speakers. when this random thing is happening I can't record or play back. I checked the preformance option and it keeps on saying the CPU is working so hard and is over worked, in the red zone. When this happend I have to restart Cubase but then later it starts again. Its starting to drive me insane and it doesn't look good to others. Could it be some of the plug-in's I'm using? Please if someone knows what could be wrong, please take time to reply to this.

Thankyou.

Adam.

[Emeric]

Your on the right track. It most likely is one or more of the plugin's causing the problem. I run into this with the timeworks reverb - gave up trying to use it. Turn off each plugin one at a time to determine which one is causing the problem. Also, is your machine capable of running several pluggin's? What are your system spec's. Reverb is the most CPU intensive plugin. Lately I've been applying reverb and then exporting the processed track to another empty track and turning the resource hogging plug-in off.

Emeric

[Fender]

Hi, thatnx for your reply. Yeah it seems when I have a lot of reverb etc it does it. So your saying I should get the tracks with reverb, and mix them to a track with the reverb saved into the wave? I think I understand. I'm using Blue line reverb and some other compressor ones. Do you have any recomendations for good reberb and compression? Thankyou. Oh I am also looking for a graphic EQ.

Thankyou.

Adam.

[Spider]

as soon as i open cubase , i get these loud popping and crackling sounds coming through my monitors ... This is as soon as i open cubase , so theres no actual wavs loaded and no plugins either .. I have all the plugins loaded into cubase just not using them .. The performance says the cpu isnt even starting to break a sweat .. But this problem occurs when nothing is happening , ill just open cubase , turn up the monitors and there it is .. It goes as soon as i disable audio under the audio tab in cubase...any ideas , this is really driving me nuts.. thanks all....

[Emeric]

What sound card are you using? Have you tried opening up another audio type program to see that it isn't the card itself generating the noise and not Cubase.

[Spider]

ive opened up cool edit , thats fine , samplitude , thats fine too , then theres logic .... although its not doing the exact same thing as in cubase since ive installed cubase and all the plugins it just keeps crashing.. Could it be some of the plugins ive installed causing the problems?? ive just installed a shitload of new plugins ... heaps of waves plugins , cakewalk plugins , ..... in logic , as soon as i try to use one of the new plugins it just crashes.. Could i be having a direct x problem ?? well thanks for that ....by the way emeric , im using the guilemot isis card.. has anyone heard of any problems with cubase and isis??

[Emeric]

It could be one plugin causing the problem. I've had nightmares with the Timeworks Reverb plugin. Could be other things though.... tough call.

Try a clean install with minimal plug-ins and see if you can narrow it down.

[Spider]

sounds like the go emeric , i seem to have nightmares with even a standard reverb that comes with logic. But ill try the clean install (i tried it before but didnt delete all the plugins) then like you said ill just narrow it down .. im running timeworks plugins , so it could be a good place to start. What about direct x ?? Im running win 98 , i havent downloaded any direct x updates .. u think this could have something to do with it ? i think direct x 7. is out now isnt it?? well ill keep u posted on the results... cheers for that..
spider

[amnesty]

I also had a problem with crackles and audio artefacts - and having a crackingly fast specialist music PC I thought that something was terribly wrong. However, like one of the other chaps said, the plug-ins are extremely CPU exhaustive and it would be wise to use the DSP fx on your soundcard if at all possible and then simply route it back into VST via an ASIO input.
Spider - it may sound unusual, but have you checked whether any MIDI equipment you're using has a dodgy signal? I went through a stage of having this annoying ticking sound in the background. Even though midi is not sound in itself, it can cause clicks if there is a clash in data stream resolution somewhere (could be anything - mine was a loose pitch bend wheel!) - try checking all your midi connections by elimination methods - you can usually tell if it's midi because the clicking is regular(24/25 fps etc.) Start by booting up your main sequencing package, but leave all your outboard midi devices OFF. If there's still interference, disable the soundcards inputs, then the outputs. If it's still there, smash the place up.

Hope you sort it out soon 'cos I know what a bleedin' nightmare clicks are...Cheers.

[Spider]

well after re-installing cubase and uninstalling all the plugins ... all seems good .. Ive only installed the waves pack and it sounds good. I get a horrible error when trying to use the maxbass plugin, just basically says it cant find it and asks if ive moved it... of course i havent u stupid machine! But this will happen only on occasions, but it only happens in cubase .. Soundforge is fine with it , so is logic and cool edit.. Anyone else had probs with this plugin? But i think my problem was plugins.. but seems good now.

[MrLip]

I wish Fender would post his recording of Breathe. I've been waiting for like half a year to hear the finished song...