Audio glitches after new HD install

Barry · Post by **Barry** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 11:56 am

Hi not strictly Pulsar related but this is a problem a mate of mine is having, but wondered if any of you wonderful people could help!

"When recording vinyl into soundforge - sounds fine going in. When i played back
the wav there were skips or missing beats - sounding like the record was
jumping but wasn't. I would describe it like my processor was not keeping up
or was glitching when recording - could be performance problem maybe?
When i play my own loops in reason or cubase sometimes it pauses - almost
waiting for pc to catch up - I wonder if this is part of the same problem???

Was fine and never jumped until i had a new hard drive installed and had to
reinstall all my software??? Configuration maybe - no other parts of my pc
have been changed"

If anyone could shed any light on this I would be very grateful, he is running XP

Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 7:54 pm

I wonder if the actual jumpers on the hard drive itself are right ? Might be worth pulling the drive out & checking.

Counterparts · Post by **Counterparts** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 4:11 am

You mean for master/slave? Unlikely, AFAIK a drive just won't be seen by the system if that's set-up incorrectly.

My suspicion would be the HDD, though...there's no guarantee that a brand new one is actually working properly. My development PC at work was always behaving like a mule with a bad attitude until the SMART registers finally reached a high enough count to inform me, "Your HDD is about to explode, back-up all your data now or lose it!"

The HDD had been dodgy right from the beginning, changing it has improved my system no end.

Hd Tach is a good, free way of measuring your HDDs performance, you can get it from here:

http://www.simplisoftware.com/Public/in ... est=HdTach

"HD Tach will test the sequential read, random access and interface burst speeds of your attached storage device", which may help to show if there's a problem there.

For HDD diagnostic software, I'd need to know the manufacturer of your HDD (as most diagnostic tools are vendor-specific), but there are some good ones out there.

Try running both of DiskCheckup and ActiveSmart from:

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm? ... 583&page=7

They get the SMART info about your drive and compare that to "its ideal profile".

HTH,

Royston

Spirit · Post by **Spirit** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 8:05 am

The glitching and jumping really sounds like a case of the wrong drivers. Have you double checked you're actually using wave or asio ?

Barry · Post by **Barry** » Thu Jan 13, 2005 9:38 am

Cheers all for your help, will pass on the info