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What am i doing wrong? While putting another sample in and even moving my mouse over the screen there are crackling noises. Some sessions come out quiet clearly but I've always heard these noises. Why??

I'm seem to be experiencing something similar. When I load a piece I've put together earlier I get crackling noises on various clips when I first start it up.

I'm betting that you are using the Windows version, correct? Sounds like you either have poorly written sound drivers or you're not using DirectX drivers. I don't think MME drivers will cut it. Also, if you have a big-and-nasty 3D excelerator video card, very many of them can cause audio problems. Make sure you havr the latest version of your video drivers, or try turning down your video acceleration to see if your video is the problem. I have found that when building a Windows sustem for audio, buy yourself the cheapest AGP video card you can buy...they always seem to work better with sound cards...

take a look for asio or wdm!

I have been fooling around with demo version and I get exactly the same crackles when I move my mouse. And yes, my system has been optimized -win2k Sp2, TASCAM 428 3.05, asusl8400k notebook. Cubase VST 32 runs perfectly on it.
Any idea?
Cheers,
Stefan

get soundcard with ASIO
if you can aford CREAMWARE POWER SAMPLER
second hand should cost you around £250 rufly same in $$ and you never gonna have complaints on cracking audio or similliar probs.Power sampler
has asio scope drivers which offers ultra low latency 3 msecs and the card is high end you will get many more pro fearures,very flexible routing posibilities especially usefull for using with live. your problem is defenetely sound card latency issue.
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kats wrote on26.12.01 :D

Err...the tascam has ASIO drivers. So that`s not it.

piro wrote: What am i doing wrong? While putting another sample in and even moving my mouse over the screen there are crackling noises. Some sessions come out quiet clearly but I've always heard these noises. Why?? :cry:

Live is very demanding on your computer, so it may just be that your system is not up to it: I know people whose machines are much better than the recommended minimum and have this problem, and I had to increase my soundcard's latency to correct this exact problem... in any case, it would help if you told us what your configuration is.

I have an AMD XP 1800+, 512 RAM, AUS V8460 Ultra 128M Graphics, RME Multiface Sound.

On the lower latency settings I get crackle when I right click.

-Ben

P4 2.4, gig RAM, RME multiface--no crackles at lowest latency except with like 20+ tracks and lots of effects. It helps to have your audio files on a seperate hard drive from your audio apps like Live, and on a fast 7,200 RPM drive--make a big difference in performance, especially when you start getting a lot of audio files in your set.

Ryan

I think it happens once I get up into swapdisk memory as I only have
512M RAM in this computer and no room in the case for a second
harddrive.

Get cracks on right click and menus.

I haven't bothered running the graphs. For those that don't know their
way around NT/XP/2k based versions of windows there is a performance
graphing tool. Administrative Tools -> Performance. Processor %,
Memory Pages/Sec, and Disk Idle % are probably good counters to watch
to pick bottlenecks in your system.

-Ben