Alternative to M-Audio?

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Aha! Excellent point:D Now we're getting somewhere :)

No as far as can tell (just checked) its not doing it with CD's, just mp3, wavs and such. So, I think we have nailed what my problem is. Now to fix it.

In addition, from a few tests I just did, there is a clicking problem in winamp, but its not half as bad as in cubase. Something else I noticed was that it wasn't changing sample rates as I played files with different sample rates in winamp. Eg, first I played 96khz file, looking at the control panel I could see it was at 96. Then I played a 48khz wav, but control panel was still saying it was in 96. Tried to change the sample rate, but had to close winamp for it to let me do that. Same for a 44.1khz wav. Then, while I was playing a 44.1 wav, I tried to change it and it wouldn't let me (of course thats not a problem obviously). I dunno what the hell thats all about but.....

After days, you guys helped me come up with an idea that I didn't think of..I also have a little old IDE drive in my PC as a backup install of windows, should everything else die. I put a bunch of wav files on there. Opened Cubase, opened a new project, stuck those wavs into new tracks (makinng sure NOT to copy it to project folder so that it would play from the IDE drive). Performance was waaaaay better. No pops, no clicks. Unfortunately my guitaring hadn't much improved since the last listen. Can we fix that now? :p

Not sure why it was working before and just packed in, but thats something I guess I need to look into...

So. We nailed it :D I know what my problem is. Its my hard drives. Probably the RAID. So I'm going to take BushTheChrists advice and try putting my HD's on separate IDE channels. Is that possible with SATA? And how?

Thanks guys. I really appreciate your help with this. I have been to hell and back with this damn thing and you guys have just helped take a massive problem off my shoulders. Hell maybe I'm being a bit hasty, as it isn't entirely fixed yet, but I know its not my audio card thats screwed, and that the problem is much more fixable now that I know what it is thats probably causing it. :D Many heads are more powerful than one and all that :)

Once again. Thanks. You guys truly are gods amongst men :D
 
i think the sata drives are already on there own channels because you dont
set them to master and slave the bios would confirm this.

unless the computer is on the low spec side you could forget the raid alltogether and do one drive windows and one audio.
 
what type of raid do you have? is it hardware or software raid? it doesn't make any sense that a hardware raid would screw up a workstation because video workstations practically depend on raid... software raid on the otherhand I could definatly see giving issues... possibly onboard raid too... but if you have a controller card it should be good...
 
zekthedeadcow said:
what type of raid do you have? is it hardware or software raid? it doesn't make any sense that a hardware raid would screw up a workstation because video workstations practically depend on raid... software raid on the otherhand I could definatly see giving issues... possibly onboard raid too... but if you have a controller card it should be good...
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No controller card as far as I know. I just install drivers for it during (or just before) windows installation, and thats that. Apart from updating them.
 
axeman_ukl said:
i think the sata drives are already on there own channels because you dont
set them to master and slave the bios would confirm this.

unless the computer is on the low spec side you could forget the raid alltogether and do one drive windows and one audio.
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See thats the thing. I did try to set my hard drives up so that they weren't functioning as one drive. I deleted the raid set and just left them as 2 separate entities. What I found was that I could only see one of the drives? I was hoping to forget the RAID at that point, but ened up striping them again.

Thing is, I have to install RAID drivers for windows to see the drives in the first place. Have i set this up all wrong? How should I go about setting them up without RAID?
 
when you instal windows on one drive if the other drive is not there goto
control panel....administator tools...computer management......storage.....
disk management

in there you should see the drive and format it. this should make it visable and active.

if the drive is above 40gig then i would favour the ntfs file system when you format it

if your windows drive is a fair size i would split it into 10gig for windows and the rest for audio storage(back up for you songs) and run the second drive
as your audio drive
 
Thanks :)

I think basically what I'm gonna do is, as both my drives are like 160gb each, Partition the first drive. Put an install on each partition. One (about 25or so gig) for just audio/recording etc, with no working internet etc. And then one on the other (bigger) partitonfor all the other shit, like net, installing and playing games, movies etc. Have one sound card enabled in one, and one enabled in another. Hopefully this will at least keep my audio install nice and clean. Then I will use the other drive as my audio drive. That way the bigger partition on the first drive keeps all the crap to itself.

I can't help but think if I had kept the 2 things separate in the first place maybe none of this would have happened. Yeah I know, internet and audio pc's don't mix, and I was meaning to change it and rebuild but it took a kick up the arse for me to do it.

I have a fair bit of space to play with here so any number of interesting configurations are possible :)
 
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