sound "Skipping"

[Chris45]

Hello,

Well if youve seen my previous threads you will know that ive been having a load of trouble with my set up having no sound. Well i know have sound, BUT its still not right. Basically it kind of "skips" like playing 1 second of the track and skipping one second then playing the next second and skipping, and so on. I thought this could be the sample rate settings for the soundcard but i changed it and nothing has happened, its currently set to 44.1khz.

Any ideas why this is happening?

Cheers

 

[DonF]

In the Delta control panel, is the clock source set to "internal" or "external"? Should be "internal" unless you have a good signal connected to the S/PDIF input.

Just a shot in the dark....

 

[Chris45]

Its set at internal, im using iTunes for my playback at the moment, this shouldnt effect it in anyway should it?

 

[DonF]

Anything that might be hogging your computer's resources would be suspect. I don't know anything about iTunes.

Does your Delta control panel have a setting for DMA buffer size? If so, what's it set at? (I'm asking because what you describe sounds a bit like "buffer starvation".)

Don

 

[Chris45]

No it doesnt, i checked in iTunes and it shows buffer size : Large, medium, small tried all of them, nothing

 

[DonF]

(We are stretching my understanding of Mac sound a bit thin here.) I recall that the Delta on Mac uses something called "OMS". Does OMS have any configuration you could tweak?

 

[DonF]

No it doesnt, ...

In the manual it looks like there's a "DMA Buffer Size" control on the "HW Settings" tab of the Delta control panel, beneath the "Master Clock" group box, and above the "Sound Manager I/O" group box.

 

[livilaNic]

I have a different card but I was getting the same problem. My problem was I had 2 Hard drives and the system was sharing driver resources (system files). I'm not sure if thats your set or not just wanted to throw that out.



L8er,
livilaNic

 

[Chris45]

In the manual it looks like there's a "DMA Buffer Size" control on the "HW Settings" tab of the Delta control panel, beneath the "Master Clock" group box, and above the "Sound Manager I/O" group box.

I looked but i cant see anything, in the manual its using OS9, im actually using OSX so i assume they took this out for some unknown reason!

I have a different card but I was getting the same problem. My problem was I had 2 Hard drives and the system was sharing driver resources (system files). I'm not sure if thats your set or not just wanted to throw that out.

Im pretty sure this is the problem, i checked it in the manual under troubleshooting and it says "Problem: Repetitious sound. Possible Cause: An IRQ resource conflict. orften this will result in a small segment of sound (0.5 to 1 second) repeating itself over and over again."

This sounds like my problem but its not repeating, just playing little bits of track at a time with gaps in it. I also checked how to fix this but it only shows what to do with windows. Any one know how to resolve this?

Thanks again