Yamaha Audiogram 6/Adobe Audition - Crackling issues

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Hello HomeRecording Community!

I just purchased a Yamaha Audiogram 6, but I've having some sound issues using it with Adobe Audition 3.0. I'm a complete novice when it comes to real recording, so I'm hoping that this will be an easy issue to fix.

The biggest problem I'm having right now are constant crackles and lags in both recording and playback. They occur every time I hit a button (toggle R, hit play, etc) but they also seem to crop up at random times with no set instigator.

It's a new laptop, so I'm hoping that that is not the issue. It's a PC running Windows 7 with 4G RAM and 2.1 GHz dual core intel processor.

One snag I had from the beginning was the drivers recommended by Yamaha - http://www.yamahasynth.com/downloads/drivers_software/interfaces/audiogram/driver/. My OS is 32 bit, but that driver had the error message
"the processor is not adequate for running yamaha usb audio driver." The 64 bit, however, worked.

I have my audio driver set as Yamaha USB ASIO. I have toggled "release ASIO driver in background" and have its control panel set at "low latency."

I've tried multiple headphones, so I know it's not that. It's also more than just a crackling in the headphones, as the crackles seem to be a part of the recording.

I'm not even really sure what other information to give at this point - I'm pretty much over my head. Any help that you can offer is greatly appreciated!!!
 
Thanks for your response and help!

I did read through the linked post and checked into my buffer settings. In Adobe, they label the latency settings as "low" "normal" and "high." I've had the most success with high latency, which sets it at 768 samples for the buffer size. Low was at 256 and normal was at 384.

When it was at 256, there was a constant repeated clicking when I would do something in the program (toggle a button, playback, etc). It would also periodically skip and slow down/speed up while recording and playing back.

At 768, these problems are greatly reduced, but I still do have issues with crackling at various points in the recording.

From what I've been reading, it seems like my comp specs (listed above) should be more than enough to handle 256, which also seems to be the standard rate. Could there be another problem on top of the sample rate causing this?

Thanks!
 
Thanks, but you could elaborate? Yamaha has a driver available for Windows 7 as well as XP and Vista. Is it just not reliable yet? Or is the issue perhaps with Audition?
 
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