KVR Audio

Debutante · Post by **Debutante** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 12:43 am

My computer is generating a high pitched tone in the back everytime I load a program in my sequencer. The program start up fine but as soon as I open a file it start the cricket type noise. When I disable the plugins (in no particular order) it slowly fades away but not entirely, yet when I open up an empty project, its completely quiet. I just formatted my hd and reinstalled windows xp two days ago and there's not much else on my hd except a few songs. and some other audio apps. The noise was never there before and my pc is less than a year old....any ideas?

Debutante · Post by **Debutante** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 12:48 am

...its just like the noise you get when you load up a webpage that has those little Flash animations going on, and even disabling my net adapter doesn't help...its driving me nuts

greendoor · Post by **greendoor** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 1:14 am

Probably your hard disk noise - that's a munching sort of sound that could be described as sounding like crickets. At a guess, it's whenever your open a file (reading from disk), or when you do intensive processing (that probably requires virtual memory from disk). Can't see how an reinstall would affect that, other than if you had virtual memory disabled and it's now enabled. Does your HD light flash at the same time? What happens in Task Manager when it happens - that should tell you if it's related to disk or cpu activity. PC's are noisy - is your fan still running?

bill fusion · Post by **bill fusion** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 3:09 am

Some computers have fans controlled by board temp so when you use more CPU the heat goes up and fan goes faster. So you might want to clean your fan maybe also your motherboard, with duster-air, be sur system is off. Also have you defraged lately, it could also cause some noise if drive works harder.

Debutante · Post by **Debutante** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 8:19 am

thanks for the input...but I also noticed that some of the level indicators and my clock are fluttering....any more ideas?

ChimeraMan · Post by **ChimeraMan** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:20 am

does the toilet automatically flush as well?

Warmonger · Post by **Warmonger** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:24 am

It could be EMF being emitted from the CPU. The more plugins you have, the more busy your CPU will be, so there will be more noise generated. Or so I've read...

Sascha Franck · Post by **Sascha Franck** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:31 am

I had a similar thing on my old computer, apparently it has been related to the graphics card (mind you, a Matrox G450 dual head, supposed to be pretty much uncritical) in relation with the optical mouse I've been using.
Changing either of them reduced the problem, but I never managed to get rid of it completely. It really sucked. Fortunately the noise didn't appear on recordings or mixdowns, so I just learned to live with it, allready knowing I'd get a new machine rather soon.

stefancrs · Post by **stefancrs** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 9:36 am

Try moving the graphics card away from the sound card.

edit: If you're talking about noise coming from your speakers that is.

cron · Post by **cron** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 10:35 am

If EMI is your problem (I get it pretty bad with my radio shenanigans, bleeps and bloops every time I type something), you may have a BIOS option called 'spectrum spread' or something similar which supposedly reduces it (though it has been known to cause stability problems). Might be worth a try just to see if it helps. You'll at least know your problem if it does.

Assuming this noise is in the speakers, of course.

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