UAD-1 Causing Pops and Clicks? Any other ideas?????

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Ok, I'm really sorry if there is another thread on this, direct me to it if you can. Here's my problem: after recording a few tracks the other day, the next tracks I recorded began to have many pops and clicks in them, as if they were being played on a crappy record. I have a good bit of new gear that I'm trying to get used to (including a UAD-1), so I'm not sure where it's coming from. The clicks and pops do not change with each playback, so I know they are recorded on the wav files. I assume the increase in the pops and clicks is due to the higher number of tracks (but I'm only talking eight or nine here, not thirty-two!) When I raised the latency on my Delta 1010lt, I had fewer noises, but some were still there. I don't know why, but I think it might be my UAD-1. I know there is the "Extra Buffers" setting in the UA configurations menu, which I have left at "0" because I don't know how many "Extra Buffers" I need. It only goes up to 15 and my card is set at 384 samples. Will adding extra buffers help me lose these pops? I've never had this problem with this soundcard or program concerning latency before, but I am using a new computer so I'm not sure if the problem lies there. Here's my gear list just in case you need to know anything:
Turnkey PC w/ AMD 64 2400 processor and 1 GB DDR RAM
Windows XP
Cubase SX 1.0
M-Audio Delta 1010lt Card
Focusrite Octopre
UAD-1 Project Pak

Thanks for the help, everyone.
 
you have an excellent computer. i'm a puter engr.
ram etc excellent. if your getting clicks and pops ....it could be many reasons. lets start with basics. do you have any high power gaming,
network, or tv tuner cards in your pc ?
give me some details on whats in your pci slots.
also your drives. tell me about them.
 
take out the UAD-1 and see if that works... if it does its probably a IRQ conflict with the sound card and UAD card. Then try placing the uad-1 in different slots until the noise goes away. If it doesn't try moving both the sound card and uad-1

Other then that format reinstall :D
 
Ok, I'm not a gamer. I am, however, a college student on a network. My video card is an ATI Sapphire. I have one Western Digital 120 GB 7200 RPM IDE drive and another identical one with 160 GB, both are on separate cables. The only PCI cards I have installed are my 1010lt and the UAD-1 card. Gigabyte K8 motherboard, Plextor DVD-RW drive, Antec Sonata case. I built this comp for recording, it's the first one I've ever built from the ground up, so maybe I've messed something up. However, I haven't had problems until now. Could I just set my latency to a billion samples and correct for the delay later?
I just need a quick fix because one of my clients needs a mix by Wednesday and we still have to do a couple overdubs. Thank you again for any and all advice.
 
Known issue with Stieny...

When RECORDING, use your interface's ASIO driver (better latency).

For everything else - Mixing, rendering, etc., use the "Generic ASIO Mulitimedia Driver."

Don't know why it works, but it works. At least on 2.x Cubie and Nuendo.
 
science....try disabling the network card in windows while recording and tell me if that clears things up. by the way matrox video cards ive found are best behaved for digital audio. this is a clue. think about it.
 
Well, wouldn't you know it. I uninstalled the UAD-1 and the 1010lt and spaced them in PCI slots as far apart as possible. I guess being on separate IRQ's fixed the problem because there were no pops, buzzes, clicks, or snaps tonight. I'm wondering how many other little things like this I can do to improve performance/sound/my sexlife.

I've been using ASIO for a while, without it my latency is over half a second!

Does being hooked up to the network have a severe impact on performance? I guess it makes a lot of sense, maybe I should disconnect my ethernet cord when I record. Think so?

Do you like Matrox? The only problem with my radeon is that it has a fan on it (noise :-( )
 
if your working fine now, no need for further things to do.
ive just seen fancy gaming cards like ATI give all sorts of probs hence the clue.
you REALLY should do some research on pci bus technology.
i always advise people to decide ....if they want a serious daw ,
use a seperate machine for internet and gaming. this is what i do.
my recording daw never sees the internet or a gaming card.
if your a scientist ( i was trained as one) you probably know collision principles etc. in a weird way - same thing with the pci bus..
fewer the pci cards, the fewer the possibilty of conflicts (collisions).
in my recording daw NOTHING goes in the pci slots except the sound card.
thus no possibility of conflicts.
 
Yeah I dream of another machine, but like I said, I'm just a college kid. On a college kid budget. The only things on my PCI bus are the Delta and the UAD-1, unless the AGP port video card runs on the PCI bus. I don't really know much about motherboard architecture. Any tutorial websites that you know of?
 
just look around for a used system for 150 bucks for internet and gaming.
amd sempron systems NEW which are very powerfull are now 300 bucks where i live.
on the pci bus use google. put in something like computer engineering pci bus in search . to draw an analogy think of an interstate hwy. its simplistic..but only way to describe it. the more cars on the hwy more chance of collisions.
 
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