Steak Knife Posted May 20, 2001 Share Posted May 20, 2001 Am using a AMD Athlon 1gig PC based computer 512 ram, Motu 2408 audio interface. Audio software, Wavelab 3.04, Sonar, Samipltude 2496 V.58. I am having random audio clicks printed to audio while recording sometimes? I have checked all audio connections which are all clean. This is a random problem which makes it hard to figure out. Someone mentioned to me that it is a driver problem between the software i am using? Anyone have any info on this, I sure could use the help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethan Winer Posted May 20, 2001 Share Posted May 20, 2001 Steak Knife, > AMD Athlon 1gig PC ... I am having random audio clicks Usually this is caused by other programs running in the background. It can also be caused by Windows accessing its swap file, but with 512 MB of RAM I doubt that's the problem. One of the biggest culprits is Microsoft Office's FindFast utility, which runs in the background constantly accessing the hard disk as it indexes all your files. But other programs steal CPU cycles when they run in the background too. I use PC Magazine's free Startup Cop utility. It shows you all of the programs that are loaded by Windows at startup, and lets you disable any of them. You can also press Ctrl-Alt-Del just to see what's running, but Startup Cop is a better way to disable those you don't need. --Ethan The acoustic treatment experts Ethan's Audio Expert Book Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dylan Posted May 20, 2001 Share Posted May 20, 2001 This could be caused by a number of things. Check out http://www.gadgetlabs.com/tips_and_tricks.htm for some tweakin' ideas that might help. -Dylan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steak Knife Posted May 21, 2001 Author Share Posted May 21, 2001 Thanks for the reply. Am going to try some of these ideas you mentioned. I will let you if it helps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.Triny Posted May 21, 2001 Share Posted May 21, 2001 most definitely look into your power supply, I've seen a report about a 2408 sucking a lot of power and causing clicks, combine that with the Athlons power consumption and you may be overloading your power supply...go for a 400w unit. -david abraham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steak Knife Posted May 22, 2001 Author Share Posted May 22, 2001 Thanks David for the info!! Yes am using a 250w power supply on this computer. I might add that am running a 20 gig IBM Utra boot disk drive and two IBM 45 gig drives for audio all IDE, a CDR-W and a CDR drive. With the Motu 2408 i might be pushing the limits on that power supply. I will give a larger power supply a try!! One of the problem iam having is after clean wave files have been stored on the drives i will boot the wave up again and find these clicks after the fact sometimes?? Any idea's? I do re-format, defrag and have scanned disk to make sure its not the disk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderton Posted May 22, 2001 Share Posted May 22, 2001 Check your word clock. Make sure everything is squared away properly as to what's sending the clock and what's receiving it. I've had the problem you describe several times, in each case it was misset word clock parameters. Craig Anderton Educational site: http://www.craiganderton.org Music: http://www.youtube.com/thecraiganderton Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/craig_anderton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alndln Posted May 22, 2001 Share Posted May 22, 2001 This may sound rudimentry but since you have 3 drives and 2 cd roms make sure none of your drives are on the same ide channel as your cd roms and make sure DMA is checked in the device mgr.If your using the built in Promise controller on the extra channells I could never get that to work properly,I don't think the drivers on that have been straightened out yet. "A Robot Playing Trumpet Blows" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.Triny Posted May 22, 2001 Share Posted May 22, 2001 Originally posted by Steak Knife: One of the problem iam having is after clean wave files have been stored on the drives i will boot the wave up again and find these clicks after the fact sometimes?? Any idea's? I do re-format, defrag and have scanned disk to make sure its not the disk. that could still be consistent with a power supply problem..even if it's not the root cause of this particular problem I'm fairly confident that a 400w power supply in your situation is essential. -david abraham Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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