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Please if you have an answer on my issue, help me.

I use Cubase 5.1 r1
Together with Luna Software (I've got a Luna Card)
Reason 1.2
and I record in Wavelab 4.1

when recording I get one or two crackles in the whole song. Not much but not needed in my tracks.

I tryed to do all kinds of things which would solve the issue but it didn't work.

My Pc is a:

Pentium 4 : 2.1Ghz , 512 MB RAM.
VIA Chipset.
Soltek Motherboard.
Running Win98.

Please help me....

Cam.


<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Camiel on 2002-10-07 07:06 ]</font>

Did you have a look at the Tips&Tricks forum for optimizing your system? Yes? Then then try it with the next higher ULLI setting.

I didn't try it I'am new here.
I'll go check it out and see.

Thanx

Try this. Do not touch the mouse when recording is activated.

I tryed to do that to but it didn't work.

I tryed the "ConservativeSwapFileUsage=1"
I tryed some windows Tweaks
Ulli latency on max
Powersettings all on "never"
No screensaver or virus scanner enabled
and some stuff more.

Would it be wise to install XP and see how that works?

When recording to Wavelab - use a different HD to reocrd to, if available (e.g. Song on c:, WL od D:), it helps!

Ok. Thanx but I only have one, I was planning to try to record to a different partition...would that give about the same result?

No not a different partition - cause the HD needs to read and write at the same time to the same disk. You need another HD!
But before (you buy a 2nd HD), try to increase your cache in SYSTEM.INI (reboot):

[vcache]
MinFileCache=X
MaxFileCache=X

Where X depends on your amount of RAM. But unlike stated elsewhere INcrease it - it helped a lot in my case (even with XP!)!

What if I have 512 DDR on my system.
Which value's should I put in for MIN and MAX file cache?

http://www.planetz.com/forums/viewtopic ... 27&forum=1 (post by darolek)

Thanx for the tip, I will try tonight and post the result tomorrow.
I hope it works because I spend somuch time on this issue...I could have made a few tracks in that time

Unless your HD is extremely slow it's not the cause of your problems I suspect (although a 2nd HD is HIGHLY recommended for any intense audio or tracking work).

My first guess about your crackles would be an IRQ conflict. There's 2 levels to checking your irq's--hardware and bios.

On the hardware level most PCI slots share irq's with at least 1 other device on the motherboard. You'll have to refer to the manuals for your Soltek board to see what slots share with what devices. Try to pick a slot that shares irq's with something you can disable completely (serial/parallel ports, onboard sound etc.) AVOID any slot that shares irq with graphics card, IDE controllers and/or network card (note that you may simply be sharing with another pci slot that has a network card installed, etc).

On the software side it should be pretty easy to get Win 98 to accept the irq's you want items to have once you've done a bit of PCI slot shuffling. Under (NT) 2k & Xp sometimes the 'PLug n Pray' features of the OS will remap irq's and mem addresses of cards to values it feels are better, delving into the properties of objects in your device manager and choosing any configuration other than 0000 can help solve this, but normally this isn't necessary.

Beyond easily resolved addressing conflicts... seeing that you have a VIA chipset I'd recommend digging through the MANY pages in the troubleshooting section here and read the threads on VIA chipset issues. Some users seem to be able to achieve a level of stability with their VIA systems, others give in and buy an Intel chipset. You can likely eliminate your crackling issues, but I suspect you'll eventually run into the dreaded PCI errors regardless of how much tweaking you do unless you avoid reverbs delays & sampling on teh pulsar entirely.

Also moving to Win2k or XP is certainly a good idea since you've got a very modern cpu there and most vendors today are discontinuing support of other MS OS's. As long as you have 256-512 MB ram you can't lose much beyond the time it takes to set it all up and figure it out.

If you'd rather stay on win98 i'd recommend 98se and a copy of 98lite to clean it up.
http://www.planetz.com/forums/viewtopic ... &forum=3&6

If you DO decide to switch to 2k/xp then head over to http://www.planetz.com/forums/viewtopic ... forum=3&66 to get your tweak on. (note that disabling ACPI may not be necessary under xp--but with a VIA chipset it's still recommended).

If, in the long run, you decide to get an Intel chipset, come back here and you'll get some excellent recommendations for your creamware gear i'm sure.

I had a similar problem whenr ecording with Wave drivers, not ASIO.
THis seems to be a bug on SFP 3.1C

is this the software version you are using?

SDJATWORK!

Valis!!
thanx for you clear view on my situation, i really needed that.
Yesterday I checked everything but it seems I really do have a Intell chipset!Probably I dreamed about VIA or so that I thought I had that one, weird.
But now I would really like to install XP and go on with that. I checked the BIOS and my on board sound card is disabled. Also for the parallel ports, so the irq should not be the problem if I've double checked them.

Could you give me some advice about the intell chipset.

Thanx in advance!

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Camiel on 2002-10-08 03:26 ]</font>

Post your motherboard Manufacturer and model and most likely someone will have experience with it...(especially if it's an Asus).

Also, it's not just a question of whether the unecessary stuff is enabled or disabled in the bios, but what the slot (that your LunaII is installed in) shares an irq with. Again post the motherboard and we'll see what can be done. Incidentally what slot is the card installed in?

I can't confirm what DJAtWork says about crackling in the 3.1c wav drivers, but if you have wavelab 4 you can try using the asio support it now has...

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: valis on 2002-10-08 06:42 ]</font>

Check out http://support.intel.com/support/chipsets/
Download Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility and Intel Application Accelerator. Install Chipset first.
To check out the chipset download the utility by using the link Identify your Intel chipset.
If the utility says something like 8xx (815 or 845 or the like) this will bring you a good step forward.
Happy pulsaring
Micha

I've updated my chipset but still didn't work.Now I reinstalled win98 and try to get it right from the beginnning.
I'll keep you updated.

Installed XP run logic and it works!!!

XP is very good for DAWs i think. I use it, and i'll NEVER go back to such crappy os like W98 and WinMeuuh