pops in recording and lock up

[icarus]

I occasionally get little pops on my cakewalk pro audio 9 recordings even though I think the levels are good. How can I get rid of this. Also, does anyone else ever have problems with your computer locking up only while using cakewalk. I've got a pentium 4, 1.3 Gig and CW is the only thing that ever makes it lock up. Any suggestions.

 

[gnarled]

Using the search engine at homerecording.com's bbs has been known to get rid of audio clicks.

 

[badgas]

Hey Icarus.
I'm having the same problem.
I've kind of solved it though.
I'm sure that Cakewalk is a resource hawg. So before I use cakewalk, this is what I do.

I run defrag on all my drives. Get everything nice and neat.
Then I reboot.

After I started doing that the lockups seemed to become less frequent.
I'm suspecting my sound card.

My sys is
800 MHz
256 MB ram
2 twenty Gig Drives.
SoundBlaster Live.

I get an error message sometimes that yells about fault stacks in the audio. That's why I think it's the sound card.

So until I can get a pro type card, I defrag then reboot so everything is clean and fresh for the recording progam.
It ain't no permentate fix, just a temp.
Hope that helps.

 

[elbenj]

If the pops are in the same exact place everytime..then its in the recording if it seems to change location..then something may be interfering with the audio stream...like other programs in the background or Usb devices....or you have a clock error somewhere..make sure everything is set to the sample and bit rates throughout your monitoring and playback system.

 

[crosstudio]

as elbenj said, if it's the same spot every time then the pop got recorded onto the audio. what kind of soundcard are you using? does it have the ability to sync to an external source? if so, make sure that either the soundcard or the external are set to master, but not both. normally, the external is set to master during recording and the sound card is set to master duing playback.

if that doesn't solve your problem, then go into control panel and check to see if your sound card is sharing an interrupt (IRQ) with another device. If so, try rearranging the cards in the PCI slots until you get the right configuration, because some slots on your motherboard are set to share IRQ.

FYI, I've found that using the ACPI configuration in Win2K is crap. It puts all your peripherals on 1 IRQ, and they do not play well together for me. your mileage may vary.