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Hey fellas, I'm rapidly losing patience with audi pops when I'm running my Cubase.

I need to know how to find the origin of the noise. I knwo some applications will feature a de-bug screen ina direct x diagnostic, which I would love, becuase so far I have tried the following:

Re-installed Cubase SE 3
Re-installed my Tascam US 122 Drivers (updated)
Checked all monitor connections
Disabled Internet
Disabled Virus check
Replaced the cable connecting my interfact to my PC

I know i'm sounding like a complete whiney bitch but I'm sure you guys know how annoying this is.
 
I know your pain....

Does it happen just in Cubase?
Or all the time?
If just in Cubase is it only when something is playing?

Have you checked your latency? Your buffer size might be too low, causing pops and clicks.

Are you using some kind of peripheral (like a keyboard) a lot when the popping is occuring. The keyboard is one of the highest priority parts of your computer, and frantic typing whilst playing music can cause pops and clicks as the keyboard gets prioritised over the sound card, the card is more likely to lag than the keyboard if the system gets bogged down for a split second.

Is it pops and clicks or more like digital buzz?

Sorry to answer questions with questions. :)
 
Definately check your buffer size, it's the cause of most pops and clicks.
 
legionserial said:
I know your pain....

Does it happen just in Cubase?
Or all the time?
If just in Cubase is it only when something is playing?

Have you checked your latency? Your buffer size might be too low, causing pops and clicks.

Are you using some kind of peripheral (like a keyboard) a lot when the popping is occuring. The keyboard is one of the highest priority parts of your computer, and frantic typing whilst playing music can cause pops and clicks as the keyboard gets prioritised over the sound card, the card is more likely to lag than the keyboard if the system gets bogged down for a split second.

Is it pops and clicks or more like digital buzz?

Sorry to answer questions with questions. :)
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Hey man!

Uhmmm it could be buffer size, I've an Ableton live demo which I'll try out. It happens both whilst recording and playback; even when I'm playing back a midi track that sounded fine, it'll pop intermittently. When I play back the same piece, the pop might appear somewhere else. The thing is, I managed to record fine for a few weeks, and I havn't changed any programs on my machine. And no, I dont use the keyboard or peripherals. I know in advanced options I can change the Audio priority. What should this be? What should my driver be, 16 bit ASIO? Thanks guys
 
You might aswell go with 24bit ASIO if you can. I would definitely advise seeing if increasing your soundcards buffer size would help. A buffer that is too low is the cause of pops and clicks 90% of the time. I would say that should be your first port of call if you havent checked it already. just whack the buffer size up a fair chunk and see if the pops go away. If they do, then you'e found your solution, then you just need to gradually lower your buffer size to get it as low as you can without pops and clicks, obviously so you can get the lowest latency possible.

When deciding on what asio driver to use, try to use the one that came with your soundcard. I know that the ASIO drivers that came with Cubase are pretty lame.

It may seem wierd that its suddenly doing it, but you know what pc's are like. I suffer with stuff like that from time to time, it may be something as simple as you might have accidentally changed something at some point. I do silly things like that all the time :)

Also I'm not sure about priorities, I've never really messed aroud with anything like that. What advanced options are they in? And what soundcard are you using?
 
Get yourself another hard drive that is dedicated to recording audio to. They are cheap and will most like provide the relief you seek.

If you record to the same drive your programming is on you are setting yourself up for trouble because you have to share resources.
 
NYMorningstar said:
Get yourself another hard drive that is dedicated to recording audio to. They are cheap and will most like provide the relief you seek.

If you record to the same drive your programming is on you are setting yourself up for trouble because you have to share resources.
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Yeah im gonna have to update to a pentium processor and more than 512 ram but I am careful to close down background programs.
 
TelePaul said:
Yeah im gonna have to update to a pentium processor and more than 512 ram but I am careful to close down background programs.
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If you have less than 512M Ram that might be your problem.
 
TelePaul said:
Yeah im gonna have to update to a pentium processor and more than 512 ram but I am careful to close down background programs.
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two hard drives is pretty important. i would make it first priority

fraserhutch said:
If you have less than 512M Ram that might be your problem.
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bologna i say.
 
Ram might be a problem but it depends how many tracks you are running. I tihnk you could get away with 512 as long as you aren't running like a ridiculous amount of track. A good way to test if RAM is the cause might be to disable all tracks but one or 2, and see if it pops still.

What are your system specs?
 
The system requirements for SXE state 512M. I would NEVER run with the bare minimum requirements specified by the developer.

You want to get your OS, Cubase, and a number of tracks in 512 M and have it run hiccup free?

Good luck to you.


legionserial said:
Ram might be a problem but it depends how many tracks you are running. I tihnk you could get away with 512 as long as you aren't running like a ridiculous amount of track. A good way to test if RAM is the cause might be to disable all tracks but one or 2, and see if it pops still.

What are your system specs?
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fraserhutch said:
The system requirements for SXE state 512M. I would NEVER run with the bare minimum requirements specified by the developer.

You want to get your OS, Cubase, and a number of tracks in 512 M and have it run hiccup free?

Good luck to you.
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Fair point. I didn't really think of that. My bad. I am in complete agreement. I was thinking from a different perspective. No, I wouldn't run anything at bare minimum either.

Thats said I don't know why you're wishing me luck. Personally I have a gig and wouldn't settle for less than that in my PC. And that does me fine. :D
 
yeah obviously we're at a stage where pcs are upgraded every 56 days or so. I cant keep up with that but I'll look at a new computer next year. However im no virtuoso in the studio; more often than not a handful of tracks suits me fine so i dont think its a RAM issue.
 
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