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My computer and soundcard are acting weird
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Lately my audio has gone faced and I can't get a stable sound with any of my soundcards. I have a Delta 44 and it stutters and jitters like crazy, this just happened out of the blue. Before I had the sample rate set to 128 samples and got a steady sound at 5ms latency, but now, even at 896 samples I get buffer underruns! This also happens with my Creative Live Value and Kx Drivers, I have to set the latency to 40 ms in order to get good sound :( I haven't installed any new hardware and I've tried formatting and reinstalling windows, I tried new drivers as well as old drivers, I even tried changing Win XP to manual IRQ mode so I could assign the soundcard to it's own IRQ channel, but no luck!
Can you guys give me any ideas about what I could try next? I'm getting desperate here!!
UPDATE:
I found the problem!! All this time it never occurred to me that it was my ethernet adapter messing up my SOUND! but yes, my built-in ethernet adapter is the cause of all evil! :) I was doing some networking stuff today, and I enabled my ethernet (I had switched to a wireless usb card a couple of days ago, when the problem disappeared), and what do you know, crazy buffer underruns and sound jitters! So I disabled it again in the My Network Places->Properties and now my sound is again smooth like velvet :p
If I could I would tear the ing thing out of my computer and bash it to pieces, YOU COST ME THREE MONTHS OF MY LIFE YOU TY NETWORK CARD!!! :p |
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| paulc_dj |
Mate, I have got a similar problem with my machine, when I press stop on the transport bar or even when its playing it'll "stutter" at the end of say every two bars. I am using FL Studio XXL and also a delta, but its a 2496. I am currently waiting for an answer back from M-Audio tech support. I am also gonna install XP on a another HDD, after temporarily removing mine, aong with my drivers and fl studio and all my VST's just to see if it does it then. My card sits on IRQ 19, when I was told by M-Audio tech that it should be below 15 and that that means that I might have an IRQ conflict.
Hope this helps and if anybody has seen this fault before, any help would be appreciated.
Ta.
PC :eyespop:
Spec: AMD 64 3000+ CPU
1024MB DDR400RAM
M-Audio Delta Audiophile 2496
160GB HDD & 120GB HDD (Both SATA 150)
ASUS K8N Motherboard
FL Studio 5.0.2b |
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| Derivative |
when you mean stutters do you mean, jerky mouse movement and all? and the only remedy is to be really fast and quickly spam the stop button and wait 5 minutes for your PC to untie itself?
this is a problem with m-audio's ASIO driver for delta cards. possibly the audiophile too. m-audio doesnt really know much about fruity saying all their testing was done in industry standard apps like cubase, logic and sonar. when i asked them about the problem they kind of fobbed me off to be honest. the fruity folks said sorry but you have to live with it. which is fair enough i guess.
there are a few things that i notice. using the ASIO driver using fruity overdrive and pressing stop on the transport bar makes my PC jitter then hang if im not quick enough to spam stop. solution - switch to the multi out driver or simply dont use fruity overdrive. the multi out driver has none of these problems by the way and ive tested it.
using the ASIO driver, and allowing your CPU load to exceed 100 causes my PC to jitter seriously then hang. solution - when you get to 85% cpu load its time to start bouncing and working in a new project. i had to do this out of necessity since my virus b at high cpu loads also plays 'drunkenly' and triggers notes in the wrong order and out of time to varying degrees.
i have long maintained that this is a problem with m-audio's ASIO delta driver although they didnt really pay any attention to it when i brought it up last year. and they havent fixed it in the last 2 driver revisions for the delta driver set.
the problems arent huge anyway to be honest and they no longer bug me since i just work around them. if it bothers you alot, use the multi out driver instead. you will get rubbish latency but it wont jitter or crash fl studio. |
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| Low Profile |
Well, the problem isn't really related to my sound card, it's got something to do with Windows, drivers and sh*t ....
I did a little test, I'm now working on my laptop, I created a patch in V-station and put as many instances of Ambience reverb effect on it as the comptuer could handle.... at 9 slight buffer underruns started to occur (asio4all drivers, 20ms latency, built-in soundcard...), but my desktop computer choked at 3 instances (Asio4All with highest latency possible!)... it was so messed up that the mouse wouldn't even move because CPU useage was at 110%, I ended up having to restart :eek: :mad: That's just NOT RIGHT! 3 months ago this machine could handle 8 or 9 instances! WHY DOESN'T IT WORK ANY MORE?!?!?! :eyespop:
I'm going to shoot somebody if I won't get this figured out soon! |
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| Bedlam-UK |
| quote: | Originally posted by Low Profile
Well, the problem isn't really related to my sound card, it's got something to do with Windows, drivers and sh*t ....
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Hi, what sequencer software r u using ??? |
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| Low Profile |
| Cubase SX2 at the moment, but it doesn't matter which one I use, this even happens when I run softsynths standalone (I recently tried the Nord Modular demo, CPU was running at 60% doing a monophonic sound! , I tried the excact same patch for the nord modular demo in my laptop, it was running at 20% CPU power (even using the built int soundcard! :p ) ) |
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| Bedlam-UK |
The latest M-Audio ASIO drivers have some new ASIO settings in the Hardware Control Panel. MultiTrack Driver device can be changed from
Single and InSync or Independent. I find Independent causes less glitches in Cubase.
Also, make sure the Sample Rate is locked !!
If all fails you could try removing all ASIO drivers from your system and install them again. |
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UPDATE:
Ok... so here's a fun fact!
I was screwing around with Nord modular demo and noticed that it was only using 30% CPU power this time (it had been steady at 70% before). I was like "what the F00k!" and decided to do some tests. Well, long story short, EVERYTHING WORKS NOW!! :eyespop: and I have NO idea what happened, it just started working as suddenly at it stopped! So I rush to my local music store to reclaim my Delta 44 (which I had put up for sale 5 days earlier because I was sure that my computer was totaled and I was gonna get a USB soundcard for my laptop instead), I plug it in and it works!!
So Right now I'm fooling around with 3 z3ta's running with an instance of Ambience reverb on all of them at 2ms latency, and not so much as a hitch :D
I don't know what happened to my computer, but god damn I spent 3 months trying to figure out what was wrong and all of the sudden the problem goes away by it self... that scares me.., if this happens again I might just have to kill somebody... :p |
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