soundcard troubles

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ok I picked up a SB audigy card cheap a while back, then learned afterwards that the '24' bit recording is in actual fact 16 bit and a few other things that would have put me off buying it but anyways didn't cost me alot of money....

To get to the point, after installing it last night and listening to music it was fine, sounded a little bitter cleaner than my old card (build in motherboard soundcard) and today I tried to do some recording with it in Audition, and it records fine, however when I go to play back about 30 seconds into playback it starts playing up, (starts making a flap flap flap noise like when you're a kid and you peg a playing card onto your bike wheel to make it sound 'cool' if anyone gets me :P, and speeding up sometimes chipmunking a little bit.
The actual waveform itself appears to be fine and intact and the signal coming through is fine from the cans when I'm monitoring etc, so It appears to be a problem with playback. (If i stop and start it from the same spot it will be fine, for another odd 30 seconds).

Although, it seems to work fine in Audacity, but I'm thinking it could be because Audacity doesn't use as much RAM or something like that (wild guess). Could it be that Audition is 'overloading' the card?
I'm confused how a really crappy motherboard soundcard can work better than a well (less) crappy soundcard? I've tried pulling the bitrate in Audition down to 16bit but it hasn't helped......

Any advice greatly appreciated, and I know I'm better off buying a better card however as student with little income at the moment I'm just going to try and persevere with what I've got....
Thanks in advance,
cheers,
Matt
 
sounds like maybe you messed around with the buffer settings in audition at some point.
 
I've tried playing around with the settings in the 'Audio hardware setup', the buffer size of the card looks like its set to 2048 samples..... Not sure what the 'full duplex/ Start input first' means or if its relevent....
Any idea how to ajust the buffer settings?
I've just chosen the old card as the sound output and I'm still getting the problems.....I'm thinking audition may be to blame?
 
full duplex means both inputs and outputs can be accessed at the same time... i'm thinkin your problem may have more to do with the 2 cards and thier drivers dont want to coexist... you may need to uninstall everything... reboot.. install the new stuff...
 
You should only have one card enabled at a time...

You can have more than 1 installed but only one should be enabled. You can disable the other one by going to the Device Manager.

Close any audio apps (Windows Media Player, Audition, Audacity, etc.) before doing this.

Afterwards you should be able to open Audition and it will automatically detect and use whatever card is enabled. Shouldn't have to reboot.

If that doesn't work then play with your buffer settings.
 
Tried disabling the old card an enabling the audigy......still no luck....
I'm utterly confused.......First I disabled the audigy and enabled the old soundcard and I could playback music in Audition no problems.....Then I did the reverse and I start having the same old problems again.......
I can't seem to find where I ajust the buffer settings?
Cheers
Matt
 
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