My soundcard problems seems to be endless

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My soundcard problems seems to be endless. When I fix something, new problem shows up

And the problem. When I'm recording electric guitar with Sound Forge 5 result is clear and good (as you could expect from Audiophile). Now I need a right beat. I open Logic and play the midi file and record: sound is distorded,clipping and sounds awful. Same happens when recording just with Logic without Sound Forge. I've locked the samplerate so that shouldn't be the issue. I've tried 16bit 44.1Khz -> 24bit 88.2Khz and all these rates have same problems. I've messed with all buffer settings and my options are: horrible and totally useless. I think my problem is software issue and all I need is the right setups and configuration. My hardware should be fine.

Here's what I'm using:

1000 AMD Athlon
512 Mt ram
30gt HD (7200 RPM)
Audiophile 2496
Audio Buddy
V-amp2
Logic Audio 5.1
Sound Forge 5
Gigastudio 96

(Drivers are updated and I've optimiced my pc.)

One solution might be a second hardrive. Gigastudio, wich is software sampler, uses a lot system recources. Maybe it is too much to stream giga files and high quality recordings at same time. Althought I can't record even one single clean track with Logic (no other apps on).

So help me out again!!! I'm starting to get really frustrated. I've had problems for a almost half year now

 

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*bumb*

Please? Pretty please?!?

 

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I don't use Logic, so forgive me if I;m waaaaay off base.

You're playing the MIDI file in Logic and recording it with Sound Forge? I'm thinking this is a software issue like you said (but I'm no expert). I don't think the sample rate or buffers would have anything to do with it if you're recording guitars into SF without problems... and if the guitars record fine, it probably isn't the soundcard...

Maybe the master fader/output level in Logic is set too high? Check also the recording levels on your soundcard's mixer.

When you're playing the MIDI file, set SF up to record. Click the option box that will let you monitor the recording levels... if it's clipping out then you'll need to either reduce the output level from Logic or reduce the recording level on the soundcard mixer (depending on which one is the actual problem... it could even be both). Depending on what I'm doing I often have to adjust these levels. Recording the audio triggered by MIDI on my setup (basic PC setup) requires just this sort of tweaking or the audio being recorded is way too hot--distorted, clipping, totally useless.

Hopefully this helps! Good luck!

 

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You are right. It's not soundcard. IT IS LOGIC!!! I managed to record clean track with Sound Forge. I imported it into Logic and there's that distortion again. And NO, recording isn't too hot. Levels are fine but some DAMN reason Logic can't handle audiofiles. I've checked all audiodrivers and I'm using only AP Delta's Asio drivers. Don't know what's up. I can't play single track with it. I can't record with it. AAAARRrgghh!!!

Hope my new hard drive fixes my problems, but I'm not sure. I'll say this one more time: I have no other apps on, just Logic. I record with it ->distortion, I play audiofile with it ->distrortion.