Hello everyone!
This is my first post, but I've been reading this forum quite a lot to decide what equipment to buy for my very simple home-studio. This is really a great site! I decided on the fast track pro. I've read that there are some bandwidth limitations with usb devices, but I figured it wouldn't be much of a problem for me, because I only want to record one track at a time.
I received my Fast track pro almost two weeks ago and after hours and hours of searching on the internet, tweaking my computer and XP I still have a very annoying problem when I record something. I hear these ramdom crackles. Playback and monitoring (on the decive) work great, until I press the record button. And I really tried (almost) everything. Now as a last resort I have some options left: change my motherboard, buy new (better) RAM or change PCI Latency settings. Because I'm on a small budget I would like to try if setting the correct PCI latency will fix the problem. The only thing is: all posts I've read regarding this subject are about PCI Audiocards.
My question is: What are the (more or less) correct PCI Latency settings for USB Audio? On my tweaked system I disabled all devices I don't use: the ethernet card, onboard audio, parallel and serial ports and also the USB ports I don't use. When I open Powerstrip I can change PCI latency settings for these devices: Two USB Controllers, IDE controller and Graphics controller.
This is my computer:
ASROCK K7VT4A+ (VIA KT400A)
AMD XP 2600+
512 mb RAM
40Gb @ 7200RPM and 120Gb @7200rpm (NTFS)
NVidia FX5200
Windows XP SP2
I really hope someone can help me out. Thanks in advance!
This is my first post, but I've been reading this forum quite a lot to decide what equipment to buy for my very simple home-studio. This is really a great site! I decided on the fast track pro. I've read that there are some bandwidth limitations with usb devices, but I figured it wouldn't be much of a problem for me, because I only want to record one track at a time.
I received my Fast track pro almost two weeks ago and after hours and hours of searching on the internet, tweaking my computer and XP I still have a very annoying problem when I record something. I hear these ramdom crackles. Playback and monitoring (on the decive) work great, until I press the record button. And I really tried (almost) everything. Now as a last resort I have some options left: change my motherboard, buy new (better) RAM or change PCI Latency settings. Because I'm on a small budget I would like to try if setting the correct PCI latency will fix the problem. The only thing is: all posts I've read regarding this subject are about PCI Audiocards.
My question is: What are the (more or less) correct PCI Latency settings for USB Audio? On my tweaked system I disabled all devices I don't use: the ethernet card, onboard audio, parallel and serial ports and also the USB ports I don't use. When I open Powerstrip I can change PCI latency settings for these devices: Two USB Controllers, IDE controller and Graphics controller.
This is my computer:
ASROCK K7VT4A+ (VIA KT400A)
AMD XP 2600+
512 mb RAM
40Gb @ 7200RPM and 120Gb @7200rpm (NTFS)
NVidia FX5200
Windows XP SP2
I really hope someone can help me out. Thanks in advance!