Uniform frequency glitching

[midnexus]

I'm beginning to seriously doubt that this issue has anything to do with Cubase or my soundcard drivers or anything conventionally handled in this forum.

What makes this most frustrating is that my setup was working fine before, but now when I play back and record the sound glitches constantly and at a relatively predictable "rhythm."

Recently, a hard drive of mine died and has been dropped out of my configuration... I think I see these processing glitches all the time in something as simple as watching a mouse pointer track when I make it move in rapid circles.

In Cubase it matters not whether direct monitoring is enabled or not, in Windows (XP) it matters not whether I have the system geared in any particular fashion to map thru the Delta 66 or not...

I'm going to go ahead an post this in case anyone here has insight, but I'm pretty sure this problem extends beyond the ordinary scope of this forum. Thanks.

 

[Bass Master "K"]

how would you best describe the sound glitches?? Is it clicks, static, popping, a sweeping hissing? What does it sound like, and exactly how "predictable" is it?

 

[MILLSY5]

you mentioned it happens when you move the mouse pointer around. Does it generally only happen when the graphics are scrolling??



K

 

[midnexus]

how would you best describe the sound glitches?? Is it clicks, static, popping, a sweeping hissing? What does it sound like, and exactly how "predictable" is it?

Hmm... not sure if I've heard enough of the above to distinguish, but I think I'd intuitively go with pops? The sound plays back and then pauses and there's milliseconds of extraneous noise (digital distortion?) that precede the real sound when it plays back again before it 'pops' again.

How predictable? I suspect that its synched to my cpu cycles or something like that as it happens pretty much rhythmically at least once per second and doesn't ever smooth out.

you mentioned it happens when you move the mouse pointer around. Does it generally only happen when the graphics are scrolling??

It doesn't happen ONLY when the mouse is moving, I'm saying that the same processing delay occurs ALSO when I'm just moving my mouse around when Cubase isn't even running, not just when Cubase is playing back... the mouse pointer momentarilty freezes and then catches up to where it should be in the exact same way playback glitches and comes back.

As I mentioned I don't think this is a Cubase problem, but that's where this h/w issue is most noticable. The only significant thing that's happened to my system between Cubase playing back fine and now is I lost 1 of 2 hard drives, which has been eliminated from my configuration. It was a slower, smaller, inferior slave drive and never had anything to do with my audio.

Thanks for the replies; I'm going to try a repair of XP if that does anything but I've already pretty much resolved myself to looking for a new system.

 

[5 String]

I've been fighting the glitches lately, experimenting with various configurations.

I got a rhythmic glitch when playing back from a disk on Secondary IDE.
I had this plan to record to the primary and play back from the secondary. Didn't work
I've got a sparate IDE RAID chip on my mobo but I was trying to see if the main IDE would work any better. It doesn't

 

[Halion]

A long shot but might be worth checking out:
Maybe there is something in your computer that's not shielded well, or that emits high levels of magnetic interference. That, coupled with a semi-busted part on your soundcard could made cause a rythmical tick?