Sound stutters...

Adi Soffer · Post by **Adi Soffer** » Tue Jun 04, 2002 12:25 am

I'm using Pulsar II (with the new SFP) and Cubase SX. There is a constant stuttering in the sound, both for VSTi and Pulsar's sounds.
I've checked the ULLI and it's on the lowest check (which means quite a latency) so that's not it. I have 512 Ram and P4 1.6.
The motherboard is Asus PB4266. Any thoughts?

Kee · Post by **Kee** » Tue Jun 04, 2002 2:33 am

I have the same problem with Nuendo its the same engine as Sx

scopeman · Post by **scopeman** » Tue Jun 04, 2002 8:07 am

Maybe you got a sync problem.

ASIO is defenitly working even on my PIII/700
with lowest latency. It crackles only when I´m using the VST-Grand cause it needs to much power for my mashine.

So I use the STS for Piano sounds.

Adi Soffer · Post by **Adi Soffer** » Wed Jun 05, 2002 1:42 am

Please elaborate on "Sync problems"

krizrox · Post by **krizrox** » Wed Jun 05, 2002 4:32 am

Funny you should mention this problem. I had a similar experience a few days ago. I was copying some audio from a cassette tape to the 'puter and when listening to the playback, the back end of the sample was stuttering like mad. Very strange. Using SFP/Pulsar2/tripleDAT.

Adi Soffer · Post by **Adi Soffer** » Wed Jun 05, 2002 10:24 am

That's amazing, more and more people say they have this problem, yet no one has no solution. How do you manage to make music?

i'm trying to put down a jazzy piece, but the Pulsar AC Bass and Grand Piano stutter!

paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Wed Jun 05, 2002 1:16 pm

Did you read all the optimisation tips Subhuman wrote here?

Some of those tricks might do it for you, such as disabling graphic card acceleration...

Just a thought

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Wed Jun 05, 2002 1:20 pm

Ack. I don't believe I've EVER suggested disabling graphic acceleration except during troubleshooting, definitely don't disable graphic acceleration unless you have a PCI graphics card and are experimenting with getting more PCI time for your CW cards.

paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Wed Jun 05, 2002 1:47 pm

Thanks for the correction, Sub... I was just about to write just what you did.

Mind you, that trick does wonders for a lot of people. Some even reported recuperating 25% of their machine's power.

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Adi Soffer · Post by **Adi Soffer** » Wed Jun 05, 2002 10:46 pm

I've went through most of subhuman's posts and found something about the PCI latency timer on th bios. Is that something to
explore? Could subhuman please elaborate?
(and I have an AGP graphics card, so the A to the first Q is no)

remixme · Post by **remixme** » Thu Jun 06, 2002 2:51 am

Before you go changing things, please provide more details of your setup, are any IRQ's shared? Other pci/isa devices?
Look in the device manager do any devices have exclaimation marks next to them or question marks?
Do you have any antivirus running in the background?
There are loads that can be tried before even thinking about the graphics card, but more info is needed. Thanks

Adi Soffer · Post by **Adi Soffer** » Thu Jun 06, 2002 3:36 am

Hey, thank YOU!
you don't know how frustrating it is to try to get some help on these things.

IRQ - shared with on board sound card, and USB.
No ISA, and Norton antivirus running.

Win XP, P4 1.6, Asus P4b266, 512M, Pulsar 2 SFP 3.1

remixme · Post by **remixme** » Thu Jun 06, 2002 6:56 am

First and foremost try adjusting the buffers in the audio properties page to a higher value, try doubling or tripling what it is now.
I'm sorry if I'm not more specific as I don't have cubase SX.

Failing that my sugggestion to you would be to go back to a minimum configuration, so uninstal any devices that use USB, and disable the usb ports in the bios.
Uninstall the onboard sound drivers, and disable the onboard sound in the bios.
Uninstall cubase Sx and SFP, then reinstall the latest versions of both.

Then you can rule out things and start to look at other possibilities.

Kee · Post by **Kee** » Thu Jun 06, 2002 7:32 am

I have the same problems and i run Xp amd 1.4 with abit mob (amd chipset) and i have diable usb and done all the mob tweaks and pulsar has it´s own irq and still the asio and sts-3000 stutters.And it´s in standard PC mode.

dune1 · Post by **dune1** » Tue Jun 11, 2002 4:27 am

having the same problem here
awaiting for any suggestions

Adi Soffer · Post by **Adi Soffer** » Wed Jun 12, 2002 11:34 pm

Could we get some attention here?
I'm sure we would be happy to provide more details to get some help going on

Post by **garyb** » Thu Jun 13, 2002 12:22 am

IRQ - shared with on board sound card, and USB.
No ISA, and Norton antivirus running.

!!!!!!!

norton antivirus on a daw? disable the onboard sound.you have a powerful card,but it won't work to it's full potential unless you make the host computer specifically for music.make a dual boot system if you don't want another computer.(at least)

Adi Soffer · Post by **Adi Soffer** » Fri Jun 14, 2002 10:37 pm

I'm going to try this right now!

krizrox · Post by **krizrox** » Sun Jun 16, 2002 5:39 am

I'll tell ya - the dual boot thing is a really nice alternative to buying another PC just for office work. But in my case, it really didn't seem to improve anything in terms of system performance or improved SFP stability. That Partition Magic/BootMagic software was one of the best upgrades I made in software. Highly recommended!

braincell · Post by **braincell** » Mon Jun 17, 2002 8:06 am

May I suggest that Cubase SX is a brand new program. I would expect things ntot to work properly. From what I have heard Cubase has been rebuilt from the ground up. Intitial releases often have major bugs. Did you try the old Cubase or Logic? I would imagine that cracked versions would be even more problematic. I wouldn't accuse you of that it's just a statement.