SpamBurglar
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Hi there,
I am new to this BBS so I don't know if this question has been answered before.
I am using CEP 1.1 and a GL 824 interface. Very cool interface BTW.
In CEP, if I go to record 8 channels, sometimes one set of channels (usually 1&2) start out of time. How I have tested this is to send a click track to all 8 channels through my Mackie 1604 and then zoom in on a click to see if they all line up. Sometimes a pair of channels are a little ahead of the others. If I change the horizontal view to Sample instead of Decimal and highlight the amount the pair are ahead, it is 4096 or 2048 (these numbers ring any bells?) samples ahead. I don't have to be recording all eight for this to happen. It did it while only recording a single track while listening to 2 or 3. Also, when I start recording and CEP is allocating the tracks that are record enabled, it sometimes takes 2-3 seconds to go from one track to the next (I don't know if this last thing makes sense to anyone but I don't really know how to decribe it). Once it is recording and the counter is rolling, it doesn't pause or skip.
Let me give you a bit more background. I was using a P-233 with a 4GB PIO mode 4 drive and, although I was close to the PCs limit while recording 8 at a time, I never had any problems like this. It was at least stable, although too slow to be workable for me.
I am now using a P3-500 with 128MB PC-100 RAM, a 27GB Maxtor ATA66 drive with an AOpen B63 Pro Motherboard with the VIA 133 chipset and ATA66 onboard. I am using an ATI Xpert98 video card (although I have also tried a Creative Banshee and an old Diamond Stealth to no avail). I have the newest version of the GL 824 drivers and just did a fresh install of Win98 and CEP. I have fiddled with the buffer settings 'til I'm about to go mad. I also hear some stuttering/skipping when I start to play a track, but I don't know if this could be related. My frustration level is rising, but I'm trying to keep cool because I know my thinking becomes cloudy if I start kicking things.
Is there any known bugs with using the VIA chipset and the GL 824? I thought it might be a bad hard drive but I'm not sure how to test it (I've done scandisk and defrag and all seems well). I even downloaded a diagnostic util from Maxstor's web site and it says the drive checked out OK.
I apoligize for the quite long post but I wanted to give all of the seemingly important data in one spot. Any ideas?
I am new to this BBS so I don't know if this question has been answered before.
I am using CEP 1.1 and a GL 824 interface. Very cool interface BTW.
In CEP, if I go to record 8 channels, sometimes one set of channels (usually 1&2) start out of time. How I have tested this is to send a click track to all 8 channels through my Mackie 1604 and then zoom in on a click to see if they all line up. Sometimes a pair of channels are a little ahead of the others. If I change the horizontal view to Sample instead of Decimal and highlight the amount the pair are ahead, it is 4096 or 2048 (these numbers ring any bells?) samples ahead. I don't have to be recording all eight for this to happen. It did it while only recording a single track while listening to 2 or 3. Also, when I start recording and CEP is allocating the tracks that are record enabled, it sometimes takes 2-3 seconds to go from one track to the next (I don't know if this last thing makes sense to anyone but I don't really know how to decribe it). Once it is recording and the counter is rolling, it doesn't pause or skip.
Let me give you a bit more background. I was using a P-233 with a 4GB PIO mode 4 drive and, although I was close to the PCs limit while recording 8 at a time, I never had any problems like this. It was at least stable, although too slow to be workable for me.
I am now using a P3-500 with 128MB PC-100 RAM, a 27GB Maxtor ATA66 drive with an AOpen B63 Pro Motherboard with the VIA 133 chipset and ATA66 onboard. I am using an ATI Xpert98 video card (although I have also tried a Creative Banshee and an old Diamond Stealth to no avail). I have the newest version of the GL 824 drivers and just did a fresh install of Win98 and CEP. I have fiddled with the buffer settings 'til I'm about to go mad. I also hear some stuttering/skipping when I start to play a track, but I don't know if this could be related. My frustration level is rising, but I'm trying to keep cool because I know my thinking becomes cloudy if I start kicking things.
Is there any known bugs with using the VIA chipset and the GL 824? I thought it might be a bad hard drive but I'm not sure how to test it (I've done scandisk and defrag and all seems well). I even downloaded a diagnostic util from Maxstor's web site and it says the drive checked out OK.
I apoligize for the quite long post but I wanted to give all of the seemingly important data in one spot. Any ideas?