CRACKLING NOISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

spacef · Post by **spacef** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 8:20 am

it is what came from intel at the end of pentium 4 before the dual cores or some other pentium 4 generation... 3 or 4 year-old technology if i remember. but i've read in the french forum about someone who did settings in the bios because of crackles with a recent cpu.... here stop my knowledge though, i don't have this equipment so i can't talk about it

korgano · Post by **korgano** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 8:28 am

could it be something with PnP device should be turned of in BIOS and PCI latency time?

korgano · Post by **korgano** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 9:34 am

ok, I found now that there is some setups in wavelabe that are probably important for my crackling problem.
Setup for Buffersize in audio setup wavelab.
Setup for files, in File card, setup wavelab.

It would be great if somebody would send me their setups to try out.
It would be great if it would be somebody with intel Quad system.
Thank you very much everybody for your help.

FrancisHarmany · Post by **FrancisHarmany** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 9:54 am

did you try adding a second wave source & dest ?

sunset070 · Post by **sunset070** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:13 pm

try to change the ati with nvidia video card,I remember in old p4 setup that harware acceleration of ati card cause this problem

korgano · Post by **korgano** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 4:25 am

I will probablly do that and try nvidia.( But Problem is really only in wavelab)
I ve got mail from creamware and thay say that sometimes video card is producing some kind of high freqwent fields that might cause cracklingin.
they say I should not come too close to video card with pulsar card, but I have tried that too and didnt help.

here is the PROBLEM as it is right now:

CUBASE sx3 and SFP 4.0 WORKS FINE.
WAVELAB PLAYS FINE:
WAVELAB RECORDS WITH CRACKLING!
( this happens always: first recording have no cracks and if than only one. second little bit more, and thrid a lot, and then pattern is repeating similar)

I did all system tunings exept disable PnP in BIOS and set PCI latency in BIOS because there is no possibility to do that with my mainboard GA p35 ds3.
But I think that should not be the problem since SFP and CUBASE works FINE.

I have Mainboard program that watch the CPU, fans etc.
When that program is on I have same kind of crackling in CUBASE too. When I turn it off..it is gone( WAVE LAB, CRACKS allways).

I have tried to play a bit with WAVELAB buffersize and nr. of buffers and I have results that makes crackling amount higher or lower, but NOT NONE.)

I have used Wavelab before on my P4 and didnt have to adjust nothing in WAvelab.
To Francis:
I have tried adding a second wave but no diffrence.
How can I connect Wavelab to ASIO2 24bit(I am using those in SFP project). I know where I can do that in Wwavelab but when I do that comes to some kind SFP problem message( dont no now PC is of).

HOW OR WHERE DO YOU PEOPLE RECORD YOUR MIXDOWN (FINAL), WITH WHAT PROGRAM, OTHER THAN WAVELAB OR CAKEWALK, OR SOUNDFORGE).

Thanks for reading this

TimingLess · Post by **TimingLess** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 4:29 am

What driver you are using?

I HAD CRACKLE PROBLEMS WITH RAID SYSTEM ON 965P CHIPSET!!!!

TimingLess · Post by **TimingLess** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 4:40 am

We master through cubase. Send the MIX of your SCOPE to a RECORDBUS and record in cubase a normal AUDIO Track. But you have to disable the listinig Channel you route the signal of this audio track to in SCOPE:

korgano · Post by **korgano** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 5:21 am

THanks TImingLEss, I will try that with master.

STURDUST:
>>
The important progress is that you could limit it to wav I/O and wavelab usage !
<<

Sorry i dont understand. Can you explain please?

korgano · Post by **korgano** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 5:32 am

To Timeless:
But did you have crckling only in wavelab?
I am not using RAID system, but SATA2 Hard disc.

korgano · Post by **korgano** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:13 am

To TIMELESS:
Please be so kind and explain me little bit better :
>>We master through cubase. Send the MIX of your SCOPE to a RECORDBUS and record in cubase a normal AUDIO Track. But you have to disable the listinig Channel you route the signal of this audio track to in SCOPE:<<

you mean? Go from my mixer out to....where?( what is Recordbus?)
what input on STM 2448 Mixer is that?

>>But you have to disable the listinig Channel you route the signal of this audio track to in SCOPE<< do you mean MUTE the channel on STM2448, that after is recorded, should come out?

korgano · Post by **korgano** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 7:43 am

I have changed samplerate from 44.1 to 48 and back and can not start CUBASE anymore. even when I start SCOPE again.
Then I have Restart the PC and now I ve got DISK BOOT FAILURE.

korgano · Post by **korgano** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 9:09 am

Thanx Stardust for being here.
I ve got system on again.
I have Status Quo right now.

Maybe is DirectX issue?
I see now that when I start ASIO Direct x full duplex setup of steinberg , on the top of window it says DirectX vers. 5.3, and I have installed DirectX 9.0.
Whay is that? Where I can check which version is on right now?

When I start ASIO multimedia setup, it will not start the test.
it open caution window with something like:
You dont have digital signal....something....chang clock...something.
I dont have any digital drivers in my project, cause I dont use any.

korgano · Post by **korgano** » Fri Mar 07, 2008 9:50 am

I did that it says vers 9.0, but it still remains 5.3 in ASIO full duplex setup...????

Can you send me How it looks your multimedia and full duplex setup?
I mean buffers and stuff...thanx!!!

Lunatic · Post by **Lunatic** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 5:16 am

I've had this problem since i upgraded to a C2D about 8 months ago. My old computer was a P4 2ghz and never had a problem at all.

Your computer is different than mine:
C2D E6600
2 GIG RAM
SAMSUNG 400GB SATA2 HDD
ASUS P5B DELUXE P965 chipset
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GS

the workaround to this problem for me is:
1) in your scope mixer set your MASTER to ASIO2 and in cubase add a new audio track and hit record, you will now capture you're scope mixer outputs and have no crackles or pops.

2) If you want to capture internet radio streams through WMP or WINAMP set WAVELAB to ASIO and you can record your stream without any crackles.

I do get the odd pop every now and then when playing audio back using winamp but it's not a problem.

i hope this works for you because like yourself i've been through every setting and tried everything and this is the only workaround for me.

korgano · Post by **korgano** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 9:59 am

Thanks a lot Lunatic,
Yes, it seams that is the only way.
I must say goodbye to Wavlab, but it is not so bad...it works this way too.
I belive it could be the ACPI thing, but I dont want to put my Quad in Standard PC mode because it would lost lot on power.

geunsie · Post by **geunsie** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:56 am

hm...how many asio2 24 sources en dests do you have?

I used to have something like 8 busses on my old workstation without a problem.
on my new workstation (dualcore) i cant have more then 2 otherwise it starts to click/pop after awhile and sometimes even resets the board.

Try minimizing the busses if you have any and see if it improves...
or maybe try allocating only 1 processor for your scope within xp.

Post by **garyb** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:00 am

your system is not properly setup.

64 channels, no problems here.

geunsie · Post by **geunsie** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 10:14 am

garyb wrote:

your system is not properly setup.

64 channels, no problems here.

yeah, i probably need to sort it out soon

I'll just wait for the update and fix it then hopefully, rather make music at the moment.

but now i want 64 channels too