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Original Message 1/19 03-Dec-98 @ 08:05 PM - soundcard troubles sb64g help a newbie

CWa9150462

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system-P11 with a 440bx mother running at 66mhz
P266 processor,64 memory,4gig dedicated hard drive. I have distortion in cubase and none in
cakewalk express using audio tracks known to be good. It works so, so, sometimes and then next time I'm up, distortion??. I have played with all
the controls in mixer and volume with no avail.
I have removed cakewalk and did everything mentioned in cubase troubleshooting manuel. If you know anything, please respond. also, asio has
sb picked as choice. Changed the card three times. Thanks.

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Message 2/19 03-Dec-98 @ 10:28 PM - RE: soundcard troubles sb64g help a newbie

leon.danon

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Same problem here (identical setup)

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Message 3/19 04-Dec-98 @ 01:41 AM - RE: soundcard troubles sb64g help a newbie

CWa9150462

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Thanks Leon, now I know I'm not alone. I even took the sound card out and cleaned and changed slots. No cure. The first two cards I returned was actually because of noise, drop outs and stuttering. I still have that, more than not, but now the distortion has got me. Keep me posted on whatever you can find out. Thanks again.
P.S. I was there for Hemsby.

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Message 4/19 10-Dec-98 @ 12:11 PM - RE: soundcard troubles sb64g help a newbie

lbx090

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I had the same problem. It seems to go away when you have a fiddle with all your volume controls.
Have you had a look at all the volume controls. I found that the volume level for audio channels within cubase is set at maximum and so distortion transpires. I know you said that you had played with the volume control, but so did I until I found the individual control for the audio output. Have another look.
Simon

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Message 5/19 11-Dec-98 @ 07:39 AM - RE: soundcard troubles sb64g help a newbie

CWa

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Hi Ibx:

Yeah, I played with cubase audio output, creative mixer, multimedia volume controls and the goodies in the
control panel. I gave up on it, but I would bring up cubase once in a while just to see if it was still there.
But today it worked, I did not do anything. the distortion was gone. So I'm back to the recording stoping and drop outs, when I am recording audio with midi. Of course, There's that low grade noise in the background.
I have been thinking about the Layla and maybe using the 64g for midi if that is possible. I'd like to know.
thanks

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Message 6/19 11-Dec-98 @ 07:01 PM - RE: soundcard troubles sb64g help a newbie

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I was having all sorts of trouble with my system (using a TB Montego sound card). Had GPF's as well as crackling and distortion. Turns out the problems were with the hardware. After replacing the motherboard, the CPU, packing the M/B up with washers so that the PCI cards sat in the slots correctly and replacing the power supply the system is now running smoothly.

Found out that the power supply is actually a really important part of the system. The power should be running at 12 volts (American system - is it the same in Europe?). Mine was cooking at 13.8 volts, hence the damage to the motherboard and CPU. Thank God the system was still under warranty and I didn't have to pay for the parts and labour.

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Message 7/19 12-Dec-98 @ 12:08 AM - RE: soundcard troubles sb64g help a newbie

CWa

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Thanks Rob:
That sounds very interesting and somewhat scary. It is possible that my soundcard is not seated properly.
My distortion is gone for the time being, but when it's happening, it sounds like a bad wire.
My focus now is: why is there so much noise in the background of my audio tracks when using Cubase and when I use Cakewalk Express, it is very quiet. I like to know these things so I can make the right decisions on software and soundcards. Any input would be helpful.
Thanks

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Message 8/19 13-Dec-98 @ 04:32 AM - RE: soundcard troubles sb64g help a newbie

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cmon people,... get logical... how can it be the card seating etc when it only has this problem with a certain programme ?....

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Message 9/19 13-Dec-98 @ 09:59 AM - RE: soundcard troubles sb64g help a newbie

CWa

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Thanks Kilo: Got any other ideas of what it could be?

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Message 10/19 14-Dec-98 @ 03:44 PM - RE: soundcard troubles sb64g help a newbie

Rob

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Card seating was just one aspect of the problem. The main culprit was the power running to hot. Getting the cards to seat properly is actually very simple to solve. On the studs that connect the M/B to the housing, pack washers under the front row or back row to tip the M/B either forward or backwards. Voila, seating problem solved!

Pissing around with the accelerator and read/write cache settings won't solve a thing. When I had my problems I tried all these different settings (recommended by various Cubase User web sites) and they had no effect. With my correctly running system, I have left all of these settings the way Windows 98 installed them and am having no difficulty at all.

Hey, it took me eight months to get my problems resolved. Be patient (I know it's hard), be persistent (you gotta be), and check the power supply.

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Message 11/19 28-Dec-98 @ 07:04 PM - RE: soundcard troubles sb64g help a newbie

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although i am able to change settings (communicate with) an external synth (alesis qs6), I am unable to record midi in cubase. I've been using an astex labs card for midi and a midiman for audio. after installing aw64 i cannot record midi. can you recomend a setup. thanks chris

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Message 12/19 30-Dec-98 @ 02:51 AM - RE: soundcard troubles sb64g help a newbie

jnazarzai

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For those of you having problems with sound you might want to check your mother board. Some of these sound cards are installed on the mother board and can take away from the original card. Make sure the soundcard on the mother board is not in conflict on IRQ's somewharer. I personally like CakeWalk better. Just got in volved with this thing cus of the VST. If any of you know of a great site for me to learn more about cubase or cakewalk please email. Hope you all solve your problem.

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Message 13/19 01-Jan-99 @ 05:51 PM - RE: soundcard troubles sb64g help a newbie

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what version drivers & active-x do you have??.... i found changing up to Direct-x 6 help fantastically with my soundcard.....

http://www.activex.com/

direct-x 6 is there... get it downloaded, then re-install the card... but first remove it, and all it's drivers... and clean out the registry by typing at the START-RUN command... REGEDIT.....

search and find any entries for your card, and remove them.....

then get the latest 64 drivers... there is at creative (i went yesterday)... a driver that it says fixes problems with some digital recording programmes.... choose the comprehensive FTP menu... which gives file descriptions... (middle one of the three)....... get the latest Creative drivers.... install the direct-x 6 (3mb download).... then DONT let windows install the creative card, cos you get all that creative junk added with the drivers... just do add-new-hardware... follow the prompt... reply: NO, when it asks to search for the hardware..... click 'HAVE DISK', and add the driver.... try that.....
also, if the card is Fake full-duplex, maybe it's an idea to check the 'FULL-DUPLEX' setting in the ASIO setup....... try it with this item DE-ticked..... try it set to : 'OPEN ALL INPUTS FIRST', maybe that might help??...... i setup a VST system with a crappy soundbaster yesterday for a client.... and it took about 3 hours of changing drivers and messing about.... but finally worked ok.... check also the windows multimedia mixer settings....... good luck....

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Message 14/19 10-Jan-99 @ 09:14 PM - RE: soundcard troubles sb64g help a newbie

gordon

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I have a compaq presario 2274 pc which I received in a
Christmas present. I recently installed Cubase Audio 1.6
into my computer. Problem is a message coming up on the
screen saying 'cannot detect AWE32 or AWE64 sound card.
Will I have to change my sound card before I can use
Cubase Audio 1.6.
Please advise me what todo!

Regards.
Gordon Parry

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Message 15/19 10-Jan-99 @ 09:15 PM - RE: soundcard troubles sb64g help a newbie

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Message 16/19 11-Jan-99 @ 03:28 AM - RE: soundcard troubles sb64g help a newbie

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Hi: Just got back from vacation and bought a Layla. I left
my SB64 in and now I am getting cleaner audio from the Layla and using the SB64 for midi. I think it's going to
to work out for me. Just now testing it all out and will
let you know. Thanks for all the input. I'm learning a lot.

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Message 17/19 03-Feb-99 @ 04:22 PM - RE: soundcard troubles sb64g help a newbie

NOTEVEN

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In case it isnt too late.

I had a similar problem that was caused by RealPlayer being CRANKED up too loud
It seemed that the RealPlayer was acting as a main Vol.Controller.

Hope it helps if not tuff shit

out...

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Message 18/19 06-Feb-99 @ 12:17 AM - RE: soundcard troubles sb64g help a newbie

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LAYLA PROBLEM! WHEN TRYING TO DO A MULTIRECORD (RECORDING MULTIPLE INPUTS TO MULTIPLE TRACKS) I CAN ONLY RECORD ENABLE 2 TRACKS. I HAVE READ INSTRUCTIONS OVER AND OVER AGAIN, DOING EVERYTHING INCLUDING ACTIVATING ALL INPUTS, SELECTING CHANNEL "ANY", MAKING SURE MULTIRECORD IS ACTIVE AND IN MERGE MODE, ETC. AND IT STILL WONT RECORD MORE THAN 2 TRACKS SIMULTANEOUSLY. PLEASE, IF ANYBODY COULD HELP ME OUT I WOULD APPRECIATE IT GREATLY!!!

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Message 19/19 12-Feb-99 @ 09:19 PM - OKE HERE IS THE ANSWER !!!!

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I'am also the owner of a AWE64... the answer is infact very simple... and their is a solution... more or less...

TWO FACTS :

1) The awe64 is basicly a very SLOW card when it comes to Direct Control (try playing fifa99,sin, etc. with a AWE64... - causes distortion or missing sounds)

2) Cubase is basicly a very SLOW program that mixes sounds (uses a lot of effects, parameters etc...)

because cubase is so slow it requires a fast soundcard... (not the awe64) when the soundcard is to slow strange things can happen like distortion (in most cases by cubase)

SOME SOLUTIONS :

1) The speed of the AWE64 can also be degraded by the drivers... installing new drivers (including directx) may help !!!

2) Buy an extra soundcard (with a DIGITAL OUT) not an expensive one just a simple 16bit soundcard with DIGITAL OUT (I have heard that these things can be very simple created - search on '+electronics +digital +out +soundblaster +cheap')

3) Buy a faster computer - when the computer is faster your awe64 is faster (drivers react faster etc. etc.)

4) Mess around with the ASIO settings... may help...

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