TASCAM US 1800 Clicking and Popping

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I got the USB controller but I couldn't get the US-1800 to work with it. The control panel kept saying something like "no device connected". Now I have it connected to the onboard USB port and the rest connected to the PCI USB controller.

In Audition I now have the US-1800's driver selected. I tried making a session with lots of tracks of white noise and giving each track an effect. I didn't hear any clicks so that's positive.

Now I still have had some hangups. In one instance while using Foobar I accidentally opened 715mb of 96kHz flac files at the same, each launching it's own instance of Audition. It made the US-1800 get in a loop. I tried using different audio applications at the same time, to see if could cause a hangup to verify what made it happen. The only way I managed to crash it was opening the flac files the same way again, this time it caused the US-1800 to only put out noise.
I still don't get why a few times the US-1800 just stopped doing anything, I wasn't doing messed up things like opening Audition nine times. I do sometimes have different audio applications open but I guess this shouldn't be a problem. At least, I didn't manage to let the US-1800 intentionally crash this way. I'll keep a close eye to what's going on if it happens again.

You didn't have ever had issues like mine?

edit: maybe not the right thread, not having issues with clicks/pops. OP hasn't been here for months anyway.
 
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Naw man, though I am not using multiple sources so much with mine. In Cubase, there is a setting in Device menu to 'Release Driver when Application is in Background'. Maye there is something like that in Audition.

Don't worry about the thread jack. No biggie.
 
Yes, Audition has a "Release ASIO driver in background" tick box. It's on the Edit/Preferences/Audio Hardware menu--but only when you have ASIO selected under "device class".

Since ASIO can only work with one device at a time, it's best NOT to have this option ticked unless you have some kind of specific reason. Having it selected results in your recording or playback switching off if you leave the Audition window.

As for clicks, they're most often caused by having things running in background when doing audio stuff. The very first thing to try is to shut down completely any internet connection and completely close any anti virus or malware protection you have--AV software is usually configured to be able to over-ride other processes as required and this can play havoc with DAW use.
 
I didn't have any clicks since I choose the US-1800 driver in Audition. That was with 9 tracks with CPU heavy effects like reverb and chorus. I was even running both AVG antivirus and Vuze with 120 torrents. If I have any more issues I'll let you know. :)
 
Yesterday the US-1800 got in a loop again, while Foobar2000 was playing music. I copied some files (1,4gb) from one place to another on my internal HDD (SATA2 Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000) when it happened. The only reason for this to happen I can come up with is that the audio files I was playing were located on the same HDD. So maybe the data stream from the HDD got interrupted and this crashed the US-1800.
Maybe a cause of lousy drivers, my cheap motherboard (an ASRock) or karma. If it's a problem with the Tascam's drivers I guess there isn't much I can do. Any suggestions?
 
I have to ask, why are you using Foobar, and for what purpose, and what does "US-1800 got in a loop again" mean? Foob is just a media player like Windows Media Player right? I am not familiar with it so excuse me if I am ignorant. I have never experienced, or heard of, an issue with a Tascam driver that I would describe as a 'loop'. Maybe it is a language translation thing.

Anyway, please explain, as I am curious to find out what the problem is, and willing to help. :)
 
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I have to ask, why are you using Foobar, and for what purpose, and what does "US-1800 got in a loop again" mean? Foob is just a media player like Windows Media Player right? I am not familiar with it so excuse me if I am ignorant. I have never experienced, or heard of, an issue with a Tascam driver that I would describe as a 'loop'. Maybe it is a language translation thing.

Anyway, please explain, as I am curious to find out what the problem is, and willing to help. :)
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I'm no native English speaker so I may be unclear sometimes. :p

Foobar is indeed a media player, so I use it for playing music. With "loop" I mean a short audio segment, few hundred milliseconds I guess, repeats over and over until I switch the US-1800 off and back on. I don't really know if there's better terminology. It's like a vinyl record skips and keeps repeating the same segment.

Sometimes when the US-1800 crashes it "gets in a loop" or it just stops playing audio. Two or three times I even had the US-1800 only putting out static noise. It seems to happen most of the time when I do something that accesses my HDD, like opening or copying files or extracting files from a compressed archive.
To be sure; it's an internal SATA2 HDD. The US-1800 is the only device connected to the onboard USB ports (couldn't get it to work on the PCI USB controller)

Sometimes I have no issues for hours, sometimes two within an hour. I have no other stability problems with my PC. I hope you have any suggestions.
 
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It seems to me that the issue may be with something other than the Tascam (something with the PC). Though I am no computer genius by any means. It is possible that the Tascam is faulty, but I don't understand how a interface would cause looping is a streaming media player. And the USB controller not working makes me wonder as well. I suggest posting a form of this question about your issues in a computer forum or in the one here, and see if someone else may have a different perspective on your issue.

Wish I had an answer, but I have never heard of issues like this from the 1800. Until now anyway.
 
Greetings from the UK! I found this forum last night when I was googling solutions for almost the same problem with my Tascam US1800.

It's now a year old and has been running the Cubase LE5 that comes with it without all the hassle previous posters have mentioned. However, what I'm now getting is the aforementioned popping and cracking as if it was some kind of reverb-like effect (i.e. it mirrors the sounds it follows). When the recording or playback finishes, the cracking goes too. If I'm in the middle of recording something it's a pain to put up with but it is still possible to keep going until a suitable point to stop. The cracking doesn't find its way onto the recording (so I guess it's only some sort of monitoring/playback problem) and I get round it by switching the unit off and then back on again and I'm usually good for another ten minutes or so before it all starts up again.

So my question to you good people is can anyone suggest a means (probably a bit of maintenance, I guess) of getting round this please? Thanks for your time.
 
I guess i can be added to this list now... Today, my us1800 started making w weird popping and crackling sounds all of a sudden. Yesterday, i downloaded the addictive drums demo and today, tried out a couple n new free plugs.

Now, everything is good until i record something. Then it starts making those sounds and allows right down. three input signal gets delayed a ridiculous amount and it stays this way until I turn off the device and then back on again.

I tried reinstalling the driver, to no avail. Any ideas?
 
You using Cubase? If so, what does the VST Performance meter show? Far left meter on Transport or F12.

Sounds to me like you may have an ASIO bottleneck. Meaning, you may be asking too much of your system. Be aware that some free plugs can do freaky s**t too.
 
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