Pops added whenever I do ANYTHING in Cool Edit!!!!!!!!

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Yes, hello all! I am not going to have a good holiday if I can't figure this out: all of a sudden, I've started to have pops introduced into my wavs while using Cool Edit. I mean, I can't do anything without this happening! Copy and Paste = POPS, Amplification = POPS, erase = POPS!!!!!!!! You get the picture. Everything is fine, then after I've done something, there are pops that you can see just sticking out and peaking. This also happens live (in real time) as I play into it now (at first it only happened while pasting). It's getting worse!!!! I would figure it was my card if it only happened here, but since it happens most often when just dealing with data, I can't figure it out. I even unistalled and reinstalled C.E. after defragmenting/error checking my hard drive. Nothing. If anyone knows what is going on, PLEASE POST HELP!!! I will love you forever and send you a free album of poppy indie rock. THANK YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!
 
I am running into a analog mini-mini jack of a Sound Blaster soundcard. I am running out of a Roland VS880. This also will happen if I choose my CD player as a source. The other day I was TRYING to make a mix CD, and I was playing the songs using the CD player while recording with Cool Edit. Same thing happened. So I think it's purely something digital. Something in the brains of the computer. Not the card (especially since this happens when doing something as trivial as erasing a second of silence at the end of what was a perfect wav file to begin with).
 
I've seen similar problems when trying to erase a small section of an .mp3 file using Sound Forge XP. It only really works on .wav files.
 
This might be a hardware thing. What kind of cards you got in there? And if it's "all of a sudden"...what did you do to the computer just before this happened?

How loud are the WAVs, BTW? If they're anywhere louder than -3 dB, could be digital distortion. Also...have you removed DC offset?
 
Wow! Dragon himself! We're bringing in the big guns now!
But seriously, I have a Sound Blaster 16 plug and play or something like that. I had really hoped that it was the card, since I'm buying a new one for Christmas. But it seems to happen at times when the card shouldn't be involved (but maybe that's the problem - the card gets involved when not asked!). I've racked my brain for what the hell I did before this, and there's only one thing. I mixed the 4 CD "Ziareeka" album by The Flaming Lips to 1 CD in stereo using mix paste! My wife and I joke about how that was just too much for the computer! And maybe it was!!! I mean, it was a lot of copying and pasting. 8 channels per song. I don't know.
The wav volume is usually pretty quiet while I'm working on them (then I normalize at the end), so it can't be distortion. It's most definitely file corruption.
As far as I know, I haven't touched DC offset. My wavs look normal, so I don't think that's it.
Actually, I think my whole computer is just melting down. There's a lot of other problems happening outside of Cool Edit now. Cool Edit was just the first target. I either have a virus, or it's just dying. I'll probably be getting a new one along with that soundcard soon. Since there seems to be no "oh yeah, here's what's wrong...." from anyone who knows about this sort of stuff, I'm guessing it's one of a kind. Those bastards at Syntrillium told me to take a hike! Sound Forge is singing a sweeter song now....
 
Those bastards at Syntrillium like to blame everything on your soundcard. I have this vision of their tech support: a 19 year old kid sitting around in Birkenstocks and a tiedyed Phish shirt amid a cluster of waterbongs and empty boxes of CHEX party mix, reading the emails and then consulting the magic 8 ball.
 
This may be a really stupid question, but have you tried rebooting?
 
Well, so much for the Cool Edit Pro fans...

Anyway, I find it hard to believe that by now Windows hasn't crashed, so I'm sure you've rebooted :) But if not, I'd clean out the temp directory at least.If you hadn't said you had defragged, I would suspect that right away, though (apart from general SoundBlaster hardware distrust).

BTW, I strongly recommend Norton Utilities. They have the best and fastest defragger I've ever seen, and WinDoctor really does seem to solve maddening config problems. And they're not paying me to tell you this...in fact, in spite of my day job (wherein I get $1000s worth of free software every month for review), this is one of the few things I pay for myself.


[This message has been edited by Dragon (edited 12-20-1999).]
 
Have you tried increasing the size of your buffers?
These pop can also happen if you are overclocking your CPU.
 
Oh hell yeah I've rebooted! This has been going on since September (9-9-99?????), and it's just been getting worse. So, of course, the computer has been restarted tons of times. Also, I even uninstalled and reinstalled the program in hopes that a file was corrupt. Nada. The Sound Blaster has been great to me the whole time. Got some $ for Christmas, so hopefully an upgrade is in order. I check on those buffers though. I haven't touched them, and I've recorded two records with no problems before September, so my computer changed the sizes by itself if that's the case (this started before I reinstalled, which could maybe change those I assume). Onwards and upwards - Hopefully.
Oh yeah, and I did clean out my temp just in case, back in October when this was first starting to seem like a real problem. Even though it didn't work, I'm happy to see that my instincts are at least right when it comes to troubleshooting.
 
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