Is a new RAM the only thing I need?

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Thanks to all for the advices and the links. Actually, I don´t want to tell the name of the plug-in that drove me nuts yet, until I don´t cross-check carefully to see if this is a problem due to my poor computer resources.

I respect sofware developers, and may be if I blame on them now I will have to regret of it when I update my PC.

Today I went to the store to buy a new RAM and I exit the store thinking on buying a whole new computer from them . I am the best client on the world. It seems that my PC133 slot is not compatible with the newer 256 or 512 RAMs that fit on a PC 133 slot. May be I am the most idiot client in the world, because I cannot figure it out why they are not the same type. I went to the page NY Morningstar recommend me and apparently they are compatible. I will check it again in another places.

Again, thank you guys.

Alejo.
 
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ScienceOne said:
When i play back, the sound and the little .wav picture are out of sync. WHAT THE HELL. Im using cubase sx.
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Are we using a cracked version? The reason I ask is because that is a typical problem with the cracked versions and there is no point to chasing our own tails. If not, we need more info. What's the operating sys? When did it start happening? What about 7 tracks, 6, 5 etc? Are you recording clean or with plugins? You know, the more info you give the better shot at figuring this out.
 
Not cracked. I repeat, not cracked. I've learned my lesson with that.

Haven't tried it with fewer tracks cause i need all 8 for the proper drum sound on these rock drums. This is the first time I've had this problem because I've never tried to deviate from 44.1 khz before. No plug-ins used, yet, but i wouldnt see how how that would result in this particular problem. I am operating under Windows xp, pentium 4 rpocessor, 512 mb ram (sd), 160 gb storage on two drives.
 
What type of soundcard are you using?

Are you seeing the pops in the waveform or are they just happening at playback?

Have you gone to www.musicxp.net and done the suggested tweeks?

I don't know if it would cause the problem, but I run a two HD system and it seems to me when I added the second HD I set both to be masters and have my CD burner as a slave and my disk drive as the other slave. You want the HD's to have all the attention of your computers resources...the other stuff can wait. Again, I don't know that this would cause the trouble...just thought I would bring it up in case you don't get to the bottom of this with the other suggestions.
 
Hi.

Kryogh has explained in the thread "Help..." that there is some incompatibilities between VIA Chipsets and Delta Sound Cards. May be that is your case.
 
ScienceOne said:
This is the first time I've had this problem because I've never tried to deviate from 44.1 khz before.
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What did you deviate to? I agree with Bass Master saying to set your extra harddrive as a master. One extra question, what video card are you using?
 
Okay....... Update on whats happening with my DAW.

I changed the Master and Slave situation around on my Hard drive and CD Writer. I thought "great- no crackles!" Then I plugged the breakout box in and realised it was still crackling :( .

I've begun thinking about the drivers for the card (The newest drivers available are 2 and a half years old now since that was when Gadget Labs closed for buisness). A friend of mine bought around his Cool Edit Pro which I loaded up and started recording on. Pops and crackles on that too. So its not the ASIO drivers then.... I changed the sample rate on the drivers too. at 44.1 there was still the popping, but at 32000 there was none. Great! Except when I record all that comes out is static. What the hell is wrong with these drivers?

I checked the clocking. 'Internal clock source'.

Finally, getting pretty crazy, I started thinking about my monitor. The leads I have going into the breakout box are running next to my monitor (parrallell to) for about half a foot. Could the monitor be causing the problem? Also, my breakout box is mounted above and about a foot to the right of the monitor. Surely the electrons coming out of the monitor wouldn't be getting that far? But then again, it is a Particle Accellerator :) (I'm revising for my physics exams btw).

The only thing for me to do now is to take everything out of the computer and see whats causing it, one by one. Gonna be an arse, but I'll have to do it when I get time. I'll get back to you when its done.

Short of that, I'm going to have to upgrade to a better card, machine and OS I guess. Pretty pricey when your a poor student like me. I guess it'll pay off when I can begin to record bands and charge them. I'll probably get a Delta 1010lt. They seem pretty stable well used cards. Then I can upgrade to XP.......

I've heard 98se has a lot of PCI problems inherent in it. XP looks like the way to go, but my current card is so old, they don't do XP drivers! Either way I look at it, if I can't get this card working, its going to be an expensive, but neccessary upgrade.

Anyway, cheers for the help Bass Master and everyone!

Keep the tips and suggestions coming in! I'm not just gonna give up on this :). After all, the card was designed to work best in 98se with Cubase, so thats what I've got.
 
Neil-

(If you want to skip a big prelude- probably irrelevant for your problem in this thread- just go directly to the last two paragraphs)

I am working for CERN, the largest Particle Accelerator in the world (we love to say that) ;) . As you probably know, the particles are guided on a cylindrical tunnel of 27 Km that is built 100 meters below the ground level.
This is the story: On the old days, when they were studying lepton collisions, the found the leptons to be out of track in certain and well-defined moments of the day. To guide those little things you needed a strong and constant magnetic field and a very precise alignment of the electromagnets. Any discontinuity will provoke the particle beam not to collide with its peer, which come in the opposite direction and also close to the speed of light.
Well, as I told you, the particles went crazy during very precise hours of the day, but suddenly one day they behaved perfectly during two days. Why?. All the Nobel Prized guys, engineers, technicians and students smashed their brains to find and explanation, before and after. And the explanation was on the newspaper.
During these two days French railways were on strike! Every time a French High-Speed train -powered by huge electric motors- passed over the Accelerator, it created a discontinuity in the magnetic field able to distort the particle track and direct it to hell.

Europeans... we love strikes.

The train was 100 meters away from the Accelerator and separated by thousand of tons of soil ans rocks, your monitor is one foot from your breakout box. Many particles coming from your monitor are flying now, and many other particles coming from your Cubase project have reached your neighbour’s minestrone soup for sure.

Interferences… don’t get crazy with them!

Try disconnecting the monitor when playing the song to see what happens. If the problem is solved that way, try to deactivate the hardware acceleration o limit it to a minimum value.

Sorry again for this dense story. I don´t pretend to be a smart ass, I only found some funny coincidences that I like to share.

I really wish you the best in your exams. Good Luck!
 
Alejo said:

I am working for CERN, the largest Particle Accelerator in the world (we love to say that) ;) . As you probably know, the particles are guided on a cylindrical tunnel of 27 Km that is built 100 meters below the ground level.
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OH MY GOD.

Your like my idols! I've just been reading about you guys. Its gonna sound really sad, but I'd really love to visit your place sometime. The past year I've been studying sub-atomic particles and how charges are used in CERN and other particle accellerators to manipulate them into collisions. E = q/ e04(pi)r(sqrd), F=BIL and all that stuff.

The stuff you guys do is amazing. Unreal. Its the future basis of any really ground breaking scientific discoveries.

Wow. Can't get over it. Someone from CERN......

BTW, in what part of CERN are you involved in?

(I apologise to anyone here has not interested in Science, but CERN is the Physicists Mecca-particularly me)


Anyway, I'll give what you said a go, but thinking about it, I'm not sure if it will make a big difference. When I record my Telecaster (single-coiled guitar) I turn the monitor off to avoid the electrons creating a buzzing in the pickups, yet there are still pops in the audio.

Thankyou for the suggestion anyhow. Keep them coming!
 
I just reread that last post I made and I just wanted to say I'm not actually that much of a Geek, so don't get me wrong...... :S
 
I also apology to anyone who think this is not a proper topic for this thread, which is true.

So, to finish with this spam, -and if you are still interested- search for me on the web page of CERN and send me an e-mail. I will be very glad of telling you everyhing you would like to know about this place. Also I will put you in contact with real phisicists (I am only focused in superconductors and cryogenics). My name is Alejandro Bastos.

I realy hope you may have a chance to visit us!

Cheers,

Alejo.
 
Neil...another idea I just read:

Go into SX and go to:

devices/device settings/vst multitrack/expert/audio priority

set it for: very high

See if that helps at all.

Hope your exams went well.
 
Wow - I thought this thread had been abandoned.

Cheers for the input Bass Master - already tried it though :) .

I am resigned to my fate to have popping until I can change the card............

On a different note, I went pretty crazy with my computer yesterday and stripped it down and put it back together. I then wiped the hard drive and installed my brothers copy of Win 2K on it. Sorted out drivers for everything and went to go, but the drivers for the Gadget Labs Wave 824 are abysmal. I couldn't even get Cubase or Windows to properly recognise the card.

So, I downloaded the XP upgrade tester from microsoft and it said my system was good to go to XP. What the hell I thought, lets do it. Got my dads XP disk and installed XP, but didn't recognise the card again. But I knew that because there are no XP drivers. Hmmmmmm. I was just angry.

Can't stand Win 98 and this infernal popping any longer though! Just gonna have to take the plunge and get the 1010 when I have enough money.

Can't stand all this crap with computers....... A mate of mine saved for ages to afford SX, then when he installed it he had popping problems, but not with Cubase 5 which he had upgraded from. Crazy!

Anyway, I am rambling. Cheers for all the help, but I am probably gonna just set fire to the card and breakout box eventually out of anger and frustration!

The exams are going well - last one is on Thursday then surfing in France for a week...... :)

Cheers again.


Neil
 
Hey Neil, I wish we could have solved this for you with the card you have now, but you are probably wise to go ahead and update.

Stick with XP, I think you will find it is the best OS for music yet, although I have read that you may want to do a clean install rather that an updated install of XP to make sure it is a clean install.

Hit a wave for me bro...
 
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