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uhslez · Post by **uhslez** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 7:22 pm

So I have been making music on this new laptop for about 1.5 months now, and sometimes on ableton the sound gets so bad and you can hear crackles and clicks. I know this isn't because of CPU overload since I got 3gb of RAM. This is probably an audio interface problem, right? I'm getting and EMU 0202 soon, so I wanna know if this would solve the issue.

brigadierjc · Post by **brigadierjc** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 7:57 pm

1. RAM is not CPU

2. That sounds like your soundcard being a bit weak.

joepiff · Post by **joepiff** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:08 pm

Adjust ur ADSR settings a bit might work

DZA · Post by **DZA** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:09 pm

Change the buffering speed

iamallthings · Post by **iamallthings** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:12 pm

increase your buffer size, but not too much or you will experience latency

doomproduction · Post by **doomproduction** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:59 pm

defo buffer related. used to happen to me too

paradigm_x · Post by **paradigm_x** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 9:19 pm

need an asio driver, will help loads. assuimng pc asio4all is the one, free too.

will help buffering/latency issues tons.

lowpass · Post by **lowpass** » Wed Aug 19, 2009 9:20 pm

joepiff wrote:Adjust ur ADSR settings a bit might work

I know what you mean mate but that would be some epic attack time he'd need to get rid of his problem that way

uhslez · Post by **uhslez** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:54 am

Thanks for the answers, but I'm already on ASIO4ALL

Brisance · Post by **Brisance** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 10:33 am

We should have another sticky:
IF YOU GET CRACKLES CLICK HERE!

because, it is getting asked like 5 times a week now.

lojik · Post by **lojik** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 10:42 am

BrigadierJC wrote:1. RAM is not CPU

2. That sounds like your soundcard being a bit weak.

This.

It's irrelevant how much RAM you have when it comes to CPU %. You can have all the RAM in the world but if you have a slow processor, you will get crackles.

Brisance · Post by **Brisance** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 10:44 am

I find myself tweaking the buffer lenght all the time, to get an optimum tradeoff between latency and no underrruns.

iamallthings · Post by **iamallthings** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 11:26 am

Lojik wrote:
BrigadierJC wrote:1. RAM is not CPU

2. That sounds like your soundcard being a bit weak.
This.

It's irrelevant how much RAM you have when it comes to CPU %. You can have all the RAM in the world but if you have a slow processor, you will get crackles.

i assumed it was moreso a matter of the soundcard itself.

i'll have to monitor my cpu performance the next time it happens to me

i'm on a 2.4ghz core2 quad with 4gb of ram, but soundcard (emu 0404) is kind of old, and i just assumed that was the culprit

i stripped down my vista computer to only the bare system essentials, and defrag/cleanup regularly. that seems to have helped somewhat, but i still end up having to reset the asio audiobay device in nuendo every half an hour or so

my_fickle_eye · Post by **my_fickle_eye** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 1:13 am

could be a ground loop problem? Does it still make the noise when its running of the battery, if not it most likely is.

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/nov04/a ... lems.htm#3

Handy article

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 2:36 am

also optimize your pc for audio and kill all unnecessary background programs and tasks that could be helping to cause this problem

iamallthings · Post by **iamallthings** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 2:55 am

fuck all if no sooner than i had responded to this thread like captain howdy fuckin knowitall, my emu went into cackle overdrive.

as it stands, i am unable to listen to music while browsing the internet, as scrolling the webpage brings the onslaught of cakkkakakakk

the kicker is that i went through and stripped my pc to bare bones for services and apps two days before the shit started, which now has me wondering if i didn't disable a process that was somehow preventing this madness

my mobo, video card and ram are all tits, and the emu 0404 has treated me now until now, except for the hourly cackle buildup in my daw, but i'm beating the shit out of it there, so i deal with it.

i've been trying to monitor my resources more as of late, and don't notice anything too far outta wack, internetsing just seems to bring hot death to my media playback.

deadly_habit · Post by **deadly_habit** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 2:58 am

ick sounds like emu is fried try calling cutomer service and adding an extra pc case fan direct at new emu or soundcard

with enough bitching etc on phone with emu you should be able to fanagle a new card for max cost of shipping

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