Audio pops after inserting film (SX2)

[mr_coffeekiller]

I have a more than capable computer made by Phill Rees. However, the other day I was testing the water of writing to images and I got hold of a short clip, about 2:30 and loaded it into cubase on an image track. Now, when I use reason via rewire there's audio pops/crackles quite frequently and it wont go away! Cubase is fine on it's own but I need reason for strings, drums and synths. Even without the film and a fresh project set up the interference is still there.

Would loading up the clip have inadvertantly changed any of the audio settings or will I have to re-install everything?

 

[manning1]

audio pops and crackles/other audio performance anomolies are caused by many things and ive covered the main reasons many times on this bbs.
as i'm a computer engineer. search under my name and read my back posts over the past year.
basically either you dont have dma enabled on your hard drives OR if your running just one hard drive (read up on drive contention) (two hard drives is recommended. one for win - one for audio tracks - so no contention).
other reasons are too many dervices in your pci slots thus the pci sound card is locked out by other processes eg..a fancy graphics card or high speed net cards can also be a problem. as can fancy video capture cards or tv tuner cards ive alse seen problems caused.
for a trouble free life eg...my own daw.
1. it never sees the net and has dma enabled on hard drives.
(ps..also try and use drives with 8mb cache. also 512 to a gig of ram for memory).
2. i put nothing in pci slots other than the sound card thus allowing the sound card free rein over the pci bus.
it would help me to help you to know in detail your pc confign including what you have in pci slots. i'll look it over and see if i see anything glaring that stands out if you pst details.
another ps...watch your power supply doesnt cause problems if you start adding a lot of peripherals to your pc. ive seen this many times.

 

[mr_coffeekiller]

I dont think it would be my system as nothing was changed/taken out/inserted apart from the film clip into cubase... would that affect the computer in any way?

 

[manning1]

if your saying you DONT get the anomoly UNLESS you add a film clip..
ie...when in normal multitrack playback/record mode ....
then this could indicate a video process locking out the sound card audio process/program in your pc. without knowing more info on your pc i cant comment further. the film clip itself REMEMBER is a process ...like everything else on your pc. and resources get allocatted by win to deal with it.
as resources pile up that are operating on your pc - often it only needs one more process to take the pc over the top as it were.
think of a beaker of water - simplistically ....if the beaker gets too full it overflows. ie...there is a limit to the number of resources that can operate.
and depends on how powerfull your pc confign is.
to be perfectly frank with you ive debugged a number of pc's where - as soon as sophisticated video features are added, problems result for the audio side. particularly on lower power machines.

 

[Clit Torres]

Also, check to make sure that "Release ASIO Driver in Backround" is unchecked under your Device Setup>VST Multitrack.

Just a thought.