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mr flames
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hi guys
I've got a problem that's been driving me mad. I've been using cakewalk for hard disk recording for about 4 years and I've rarely had problems, but this one's not going away.
I've just got given another pc for a little bedroom studio setup - nothing special but good enough for some recording: PII 233, 196meg RAM. I took my old soundcard - a soundblaster live value - and my existing hdd and installed them into the box. Both of these were working fine before, as was the pc with the previous owner, and he ran cakewalk on it with no problems.
My problem is that I'm getting a little clicking static sound when I play back my recordings. It's not an input problem, as it sounds fine when I'm recording, and it's not a playback problem, as existing cakewalk files play back fine and the clicks are actually recorded on the wav files. Also, if I record from the same source in SoundForge or any other recording program, it records fine with no static clicks!
I'm running windows 98se, cakewalk 9.0, the harddrive is a pretty new 4gig Seagate with two 2gig partitions. I've enabled DMA (Direct Memory Access) on my hdd, reinstalled cakewalk, reinstalled my soundcard, and I'm still getting it. The problem seems to reside in the communication between cakewalk and my hard drive - it's not getting it down to the drive properly for some reason. If I can't fix it I'll probably do a low-level format on the drive and completely set up my system again - but I'm not really in the mood for doing that...
Any ideas would be much appreciated.
cheers,
mr flames
I've got a problem that's been driving me mad. I've been using cakewalk for hard disk recording for about 4 years and I've rarely had problems, but this one's not going away.
I've just got given another pc for a little bedroom studio setup - nothing special but good enough for some recording: PII 233, 196meg RAM. I took my old soundcard - a soundblaster live value - and my existing hdd and installed them into the box. Both of these were working fine before, as was the pc with the previous owner, and he ran cakewalk on it with no problems.
My problem is that I'm getting a little clicking static sound when I play back my recordings. It's not an input problem, as it sounds fine when I'm recording, and it's not a playback problem, as existing cakewalk files play back fine and the clicks are actually recorded on the wav files. Also, if I record from the same source in SoundForge or any other recording program, it records fine with no static clicks!
I'm running windows 98se, cakewalk 9.0, the harddrive is a pretty new 4gig Seagate with two 2gig partitions. I've enabled DMA (Direct Memory Access) on my hdd, reinstalled cakewalk, reinstalled my soundcard, and I'm still getting it. The problem seems to reside in the communication between cakewalk and my hard drive - it's not getting it down to the drive properly for some reason. If I can't fix it I'll probably do a low-level format on the drive and completely set up my system again - but I'm not really in the mood for doing that...
Any ideas would be much appreciated.
cheers,
mr flames
