slurring in playback

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ok acidrock,

I tried the sound recorder and it worked fine so I guess that answers that question. And yes, I turned off all the extranious programs (did the ctrl/alt/del trick) and it still didn't eliminate the problem in cakewalk. As I said in one of my threads earlier, I've played around with the latency (buffer) setting, gone up, gone down from the, I presume, default setting and none of that helped.... So, I'm still stumped....
 
oh well...

I seem to remember when I had that problem that I ended up reinstalling cakewalk, and it hasnt happened for a while now.
 
re: oh well

drflanger,

I've reinstalled cakewalk 3 times and it hasn't helped, I still get the little skips and slurs. Like I said earlier tho, it only occurs in cakewalk itself, once I export it, it plays back perfect. It does make it hard to do any kind of mixing in cakewalk tho....
 
aceteleman - I'm gonna try and get back into this thing. Can you describe exactly what it is you're doing.

If I understand correctly, you are recording a single, stereo wave file from a cassette deck into Cakewalk 7. Then when you play the file back (no effects, no panning, no nothing) it slurs on you. But when you export a wave file from Cakewalk, the exported file plays fine in other programs (e.g., Windows Media Player).

If that is the case, then obviously the file is recording fine and the problem is only something to do with playback in CW 7.

I'm not familiar with CW 7, but go to Options -> Audio. Do you see something related to Recording and Playback timing? Are they both set for your sound card, and both set to the same thing?

Is the project set for 44.1 sampling rate and 16 bit depth?

What sound card are you using?
 
sound card

dachay2tnr said:
aceteleman - I'm gonna try and get back into this thing. Can you describe exactly what it is you're doing.

If I understand correctly, you are recording a single, stereo wave file from a cassette deck into Cakewalk 7. Then when you play the file back (no effects, no panning, no nothing) it slurs on you. But when you export a wave file from Cakewalk, the exported file plays fine in other programs (e.g., Windows Media Player).

If that is the case, then obviously the file is recording fine and the problem is only something to do with playback in CW 7.

I'm not familiar with CW 7, but go to Options -> Audio. Do you see something related to Recording and Playback timing? Are they both set for your sound card, and both set to the same thing?

Is the project set for 44.1 sampling rate and 16 bit depth?

What sound card are you using?
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I'm using a Sound Blaster PCI 128 card..... I didn't see anything in audio options relating to record and playback settings other than queue buffer settings and it is set to 44.1 as is my sound card....

I've tried several times to adjust the buffer settings, at someone else's recommendation, but it hasn't seemed to help. I've been wanting to use cw to try doing a mix from my 8 track but don't know how well it's gonna work with that problem, kinda hard to hear if the mix is right with that going on....
 
btw dachay2tnr,

your assumption is correct about what I'm doing at this point..
 
I'm out of ideas, A-man77. It appears that a lot of the tweaks are not available in CW7. As I am sure you know, that's a pretty old program, as is the PCI 128 card.

What OS are you running. With that set-up I would hope you are running Win 95, or at the worst, Win 98. Any OS newer than that could possibly be part of the problem.

It still sounds to me like either a latency issue, or a clock sync/sample rate issue as Acidrock suggested. Maybe you can do a search in your CW7 help file for "clock" or "timing" or "latency" and see if it leads you anywhere.

Good luck.
 
dachay2tnr said:
I'm out of ideas, A-man77. It appears that a lot of the tweaks are not available in CW7. As I am sure you know, that's a pretty old program, as is the PCI 128 card.

What OS are you running. With that set-up I would hope you are running Win 95, or at the worst, Win 98. Any OS newer than that could possibly be part of the problem.

It still sounds to me like either a latency issue, or a clock sync/sample rate issue as Acidrock suggested. Maybe you can do a search in your CW7 help file for "clock" or "timing" or "latency" and see if it leads you anywhere.

Good luck.
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dachay2tnr
been there, done that, not much help in HELP or the user guide..
 
Go to options/global, click on the Advance tab and make sure that under Synchronation, Trigger and Freewheel(best when sound clock has a word clock input) is checked. Hopefully that is yor problem. I had the same problem and that fixed it.
 
A slightly different tactic...........

Do you have a voice modem? Either external or built into the motherboard?

Even if you aren't using it, there may be drivers installed which are f*@king with your SB live drivers.

Have a look at CONTROL PANEL-MULTIMEDIA and disable anything in the DRIVERS section that looks like a fax, voice or modem driver.

Reboot and retest

Ciao,

Q.
 
Cudmasters Los said:
Go to options/global, click on the Advance tab and make sure that under Synchronation, Trigger and Freewheel(best when sound clock has a word clock input) is checked. Hopefully that is yor problem. I had the same problem and that fixed it.
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Don't have any of that in my version of CW (old version Pro Audio 7) starting with no ADVANCED tab nor are any of the other items anywhere under global options.... Thanks for trying tho....
 
Well, check you have set your clock as "audio".

Start a new project. Go to Options - Project options - Clock - Source and check that AUDIO is the one you have selected.

That's the way to do it in Sonar. If I remember correctly, it's the same in PA 7. Always use this setting if you plan to do any audio in a project.

And from the HELP files..

Source
This section lets you choose what device SONAR uses as a timing source, and has the following options:

Internal--Choose this option to use the clock on the computer's motherboard.
MIDI Sync--Choose this option to sync SONAR to an external MIDI device.
SMPTE/MTC--Choose this option to sync SONAR to an external device that generates either SMPTE time code or MIDI time code.
Audio--Choose this option to use the clock on the computer's sound card.
 
Thanks janic,

I'll give that a shot and see what happens.. Keep yer eye peeled here and I'll let ya know if that made a difference....
 
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Ok Janic,

I went in a checked AUDIO and it seemed to help 'SOME' but not totally, still getting a little bit of slur on playback but not nearly as bas as it's been....
 
And you did it on a new project with a freshly recorded piece of audio, yes? It won't work if you just change the clock on a pre-recorded project.

ps. remember to turn off the metronome too, not that it will help your problem at all...
;-)
 
Janic,

Yep, new project, metronome not on.... Like I said, it seems to have helped some because it's not nearly as bas as before but still there slightly....
 
Damn. What could it be?
Have you tried recording in other software?
How about even defragmenting your hard drive?
Have you tweaked your machine for doing digital audio?
 
Re: A slightly different tactic...........

Qwerty said:
Do you have a voice modem? Either external or built into the motherboard?

Even if you aren't using it, there may be drivers installed which are f*@king with your SB live drivers.

Have a look at CONTROL PANEL-MULTIMEDIA and disable anything in the DRIVERS section that looks like a fax, voice or modem driver.

Reboot and retest

Ciao,

Q.
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Have you tried this - fixed a similar issue a wee while ago.....
 
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