I am in (DMAN 2044) hell...

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amonte

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Hi,

I am having some real problems with the Midiman DMAN 2044 sound card. I have contacted tech support on several occasions and the clearly do not want to help. They simply ignore my messages. So, once again, I need some help - here are the specifics:

- Pentium 233 MHZ
- 13.5 GB Hard Drive, 86% empty
- 64 MB or RAM
- DMAN 2044 Card
- SoundBlaster AWE 64 Gold
- Cakewalk Professional 7
- NTrack Studio
- Windows 98

This computer has been optimized for digital audio recording, according to the documents posted on optimization for recording. If you would like specifics please let me know.

The problem is that whenever I play back the audio through my DMAN, it sounds like it is being clipped, goes out of phase (even though the tracks were not recorded at the same time), has static, and overall really just sounds terrible. At some points it reaches unlistenable states. But I have found that when I stop the playback, then start it again, it cleans up, only to go bad again about 5 seconds later. The problem occurs on a decling scale - so the audio starts clean, then gets progressively worse as playback continues. This even occurs during the recording phase, so to get past this, I have been using my AWE card for the playback and my DMAN for recording. THis has worked fine so far, but I am concerned about latency issues between the two cards.

Please keep in mind the following when you post a reply:
1. The hard drive has been partitioned
2. The jumpers on the DMAN 2044 are pulled OFF - so they card is set to +4dB instead of -1dB.
3. I am sending the outs of the DMAN card into a small foxtex mixer, which is hooked up to a set of PC speakers. I don't believe the issue is with the mixer or speakers, since the SB plays back fine.
4. I have already tried reinstalling the card, moving it to a new PCI slot and reinstalling the drivers.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Jer
 
could be hundreds of different things. Are you running any plugins? is the playback garbled without the plugins? Try raising the buffers in your software, see if that helps. Defragment your harddrive and see if that helps. What speed is your hardrive? The speed of the drive matters the most. More RAM would be better too, but... (64 is fine for awhile at least :D)

hmmm... what else, update your drivers... (and then there's more)

Optimizing your Computer for audio is a big task, every DAW is going to be different, you just have to experiment.

-jhe
 
"3. I am sending the outs of the DMAN card into a small foxtex mixer, which is hooked up to a set of PC speakers. I don't believe the issue is with the mixer or speakers, since the SB plays back fine. "

umm..this is prolly dumb to point out , but do you think possibly the line outs of the dman and then amped by the mixer are a little too much for the computer speakers to handle and they are clipping?

- eddie -
 
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