Pitch is slow

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Ok Guys,

I've just been doing some experimenting here... I recently installed a DMAN 2044 and am running it along with my other sound card - Soundblaster PCI128...

My Cool Edit Pro software just arrived yesterday and I've been wanting to play around abit even tho my mixer has not arrived yet...

I've been recording from cassette into Cool Edit Pro using the DMAN ... When I play it back using the Soundblaster card - the pitch is waaaaaaaaaay too slow... What gives?

If I had some more adapters, or my mixer I could listen thru the DMAN but just thought I'd try this for now

Thanks again for this wonderful site Dragon!

Melissa in Tennessee
 
Do you mean the pitch is too low or the speed is too slow or both? And is this slowness perhaps off from the right value by a factor of 2?
 
Wow, even I never heard of this one! I'm sure, though, it has to do with the fact that you're recording on one and playing on the other, and somehow the clock is getting screwed up. One card (as I believe drstawl suspects) might be set up for different resolution (i.e. one is set for 44.1 Khz and the other for 22 KHz) in Windows. I think the reasonable thing to do would simply be record/play only on your "good" DMAN card and use the SB for games and Windows sounds only.

Glad you like the site, Melissa...thanks!
 
Good friggin' luck...
I have had similiar problems with Cool Edit Pro and have had little help from Syntrillium... One day a file will play fine, the next day it will be slow... And check this shit out: A few days ago I was was running a cool edit pro session to try out my new monitors... it was a song that I finished months ago... and I left the session open and went to take a nap... an hour or so later I came back to the computer and pushed "play" and the session was playing back at a slow speed...
I got no clue how that happened...
Cool Edit Pro behaves erraticly to say the least... I opened a big can of worms on another BBS by suggesting that it was full of bugs... I'll say this... Everyones version of Cool Edit Pro seems to behave differently... And the manual is little help.
I'd venture a guess and say that it is playing back the file at the wrong sample rate... but I'd be at aloss to tell you how to why... In the waveform editing screen in the "edit" toolbar you can adjust sample rate and type. try this... also make sure you save the waveform in Windows PCM (WAV.) format. Good luck...
 
drstawl- actually the speed is too slow - my voice sounds fine when I listen thru headphones on the DMAN, but when I playback thru the soundblaster, I sound kinda like a guy - lower, slower voice...

Dragon - I plan on using the DMAN strictly for recording/playback once the mixer's here - I just thought I could go ahead and play around with the Cool Edit Pro and get some of my voiceover demos (cassette) transferred to hard drive so I can convert to MP3 for sending out to commercial producers.
How the heck do you synchronize the clocks of the soundcards anyway??

SN-8 - I really hated to hear your report about probs with Cool Edit Pro and lousy support from Syntrillium... We used Cool Edit at the lat radio station I worked at and it was sweet, which is why I went with it here at my home studio...

Do you think your problem could have been caused by low hard drive space/memory or something?? Sheesh, I hope I won't be sorry about forking out the $$ for the software... It definitely wasn't cheap...

Anyone have any ideas where I can get a good deal on an Electrovoice RE-20 mic?? Would love to find a used one in good condition if possible.

Ya'll come back now, ya hear :)

Melissa in Tennessee
 
It sounds like your soundblaster is playing back at the wrong sample rate... a real sound card shouldn't do that.
I don't mean to sound like I am sorry for going with Cool Edit Pro... from what I understand other programs are just as flakey. Most of my problems are most likely due to ignorance which I will blame on the shitty manual. 236 pages of crap. I have yet to find anything helpful in it.
 
SN-8 - at least you have a manual!! My software did not come with a manual... However, Sytrillium will send me a manual if I send them a copy of my receipt from where I bought the software...

There is a "how-to" guide on the cd-rom itself tho.

Melissa in TN

[This message has been edited by lisstune (edited 09-27-1999).]
 
OK, I'll bite...why can't you just play back through the DMAN now? I'm glad to hear that it sounds like I was right about the clocks though...anyway you can't sync them unless they both have clock input/output connectors.

P.S. to Melissa: You have great BBS manners, welcome here anytime!
 
My software didn't come with a manual either which would have extremely pissed me off if I hadn't downloaded it from their website already. You have to request that they send you a manual and you will eventually get it or you can download it and have a huge stack of paper that will get all mixed up and you burn out a black ink cartridge in the process of printing it. The manual isn't very helpful to begin with. They give you some sort of tree-hugging hippy crap about saving the environment so they don't ship a manual unless you request one. O.K.
Theres a CD-rom tutorial that is more helpful than the manual. I'm not sure if it is free or not but you can get it from their website. I don't know where mine came from... I must have gotten it free in a magazine or something... It didn't come with the software but I have it... I don't know...
You're from Nashville, huh... I'm from Little Rock but I moved away from that hell-hole... Cheers!
 
Does this "good" soundcard record and play at 48Khz sample rate maybe??? :) Willing to bet that it is defaulted at that. I am not sure if the SB card can support 48Khz files.

Ed
 
Howdy again,

Dragon - the reason I can't play thru the DMAN now is because don't have the right adapters (yet)... For now, I was just going to use these 40 watt Labtec computer speakers as my monitors and the jack is one of those mini-plugs... I need a "Y" stereo mini-plug adapter (mini-plug into 2 mono 1/4" to plug into DMAN)... At least I think that's what I need :)

Hubby has a gazillion adapters, but unfortunatly he's not very organized with some of his audio stuff... I could go out to Radio Shack and buy the ones I need but sure as I do I'll find some of his that I can use... Was putting off a visit to Radio Shack until the mixer arrived and I found out what other cords, stuff I'll need...

Ed - I have the sampling rate set on both cards at 44Khz... Thanks for the suggestion tho.

I was hoping my mixer would arrive today - can't wait to get things all set up (and then I'm sure I'll have even more questions for all you Audio Gods :)

Thanks so much for everyone's help!!


Melissa in TN
 
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