sound problems

[lightshy]

3/4 could be loud enough for this. Card is a SB Audigy? Thats your culprit then!

but this has never happened before at even higher volumes in any of the other sequencers i used (cubase, live, logic).

[Lunch Money]

Still sounds like audible scrubbing to me--

When you move a selected audio clip that passes over the cursor, it will play back at the sample level-- ie. it will play as you move, as though you were manually moving a record under a needle, or a tape through a machine.

I suspect your other sequencers do not have this feature enabled by default (even though it IS available on most), whereas Tracktion has it enabled by default.

I'm distracted by work right now, so I may have missed something in one of the posts in my haste to respond, so forgive me in advance if that's the case.

Greg

[lightshy]

Still sounds like audible scrubbing to me--

When you move a selected audio clip that passes over the cursor, it will play back at the sample level-- ie. it will play as you move, as though you were manually moving a record under a needle, or a tape through a machine.

now i get it!!! this was it

but it still doesn't explain the hissing

[Lunch Money]

The hissing I can't explain, though it could be from a few different things:

1. Are you SURE you're not using the demo version still, by accident? When you go to the "about" box, does it tell you that it's registered to you?

2. Have you disabled your audio inputs? You may still have a guitar, synth, or microphone enabled and it's feeding a signal into the sequencer. Depending on which options are checked, you'll still be able to hear the signal even when not recording.

3. As mentioned, it could be another component interfering with your signal...? Not sure which one would give a hiss, though, so I'm probably just talking out of my ass on this one.

4. Your audio had a recorded hiss in it that you weren't aware of, but which becomes audible on playback or with scrubbing.



Greg

[dealwithit]

Not to hijack, but in my NFR version of T, I get a loud white-noise hiss sometimes when I add a filter, or move filters around, and the only way to get rid of it is to either move another filter, or minimize T.

[lightshy]

The hissing I can't explain, though it could be from a few different things:

1. Are you SURE you're not using the demo version still, by accident? When you go to the "about" box, does it tell you that it's registered to you?

2. Have you disabled your audio inputs? You may still have a guitar, synth, or microphone enabled and it's feeding a signal into the sequencer. Depending on which options are checked, you'll still be able to hear the signal even when not recording.

3. As mentioned, it could be another component interfering with your signal...? Not sure which one would give a hiss, though, so I'm probably just talking out of my ass on this one.

4. Your audio had a recorded hiss in it that you weren't aware of, but which becomes audible on playback or with scrubbing.



Greg

1. yes i'm SURE!
2. my audio inputs are DISABLED. for sure
3. don't think so, cuz i can get rid of the hissing either when i minimize, or switch to settings tab, or, come to think of it... i just have to click wherever, on a track, on a filter, wherever.
4. new (BLANK) edit.


hel me with this one. it' drivin me mad.

[Dimwit]

yesterday i had a clean install)

of what? Tracktion? OS?

If you re-installed XP did you remember to switch "processor scheduling" to "background services"?

Platinumears, How do I go about setting this? Is it only during the initial installation of XP that you can do this?
How important is this setting?

Thanks for your reply

[Lunch Money]

I'm boggled. Can't imagine where else the hissing would be coming from....

Any filters that generate their own signal in there somewhere?

Greg

[lightshy]

I'm boggled. Can't imagine where else the hissing would be coming from....

Any filters that generate their own signal in there somewhere?

Greg

no. it's an empty edit, with a single, empty track. i drag a filter on to the track and there's tha crazy, white-noise-like hissing. i'm goin
jules?! any ideas?
somebody, anybody?

[lightshy]

yesterday i had a clean install)

of what? Tracktion? OS?

If you re-installed XP did you remember to switch "processor scheduling" to "background services"?

Platinumears, How do I go about setting this? Is it only during the initial installation of XP that you can do this?
How important is this setting?

Thanks for your reply

control panel>system properites>advanced tab>performance settings>advanced tab.

[lightshy]

it's an empty edit, with a single, empty track. i drag a filter on to the track and there's tha crazy, white-noise-like hissing. i'm goin
jules?! any ideas?
somebody, anybody?

[dealwithit]

yesterday i had a clean install)

of what? Tracktion? OS?

If you re-installed XP did you remember to switch "processor scheduling" to "background services"?

Platinumears, How do I go about setting this? Is it only during the initial installation of XP that you can do this?
How important is this setting?

Thanks for your reply

control panel>system properites>advanced tab>performance settings>advanced tab.

And why exactly do you want your processor to prioritize background services? I am honestly curious, how does this help a foreground app like T? This is the first I've heard of this, and I've read a few "optimizing WinXP for audio" articles.

[IIRs]

I believe ASIO drivers are background services..

AFAIK this is the only really important tweak for an XP system to be used as DAW.

[Dimwit]

yesterday i had a clean install)

of what? Tracktion? OS?

If you re-installed XP did you remember to switch "processor scheduling" to "background services"?

Platinumears, How do I go about setting this? Is it only during the initial installation of XP that you can do this?
How important is this setting?

Thanks for your reply

control panel>system properites>advanced tab>performance settings>advanced tab.

Cool got it, Thanks

[braj]

I believe ASIO drivers are background services..

AFAIK this is the only really important tweak for an XP system to be used as DAW.

I have to try that out later. Sounds logical anyway.