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Subject:Audio Pops and Breaks Posted by: pina0004 Date:12/16/2001 8:54:20 PM Hi all. I am running ACID on an Athlon 1.4 GHZ machine w/ 256MB RAM. My sound card is a Delta 44. I have been looping successfully with ACID until today when I added some vocals that I recorded in Cubase, then smoothed out in Sound Forge, saved as Beatmapped, then opened up in ACID (may not be the best way to do this, but oh well). Anyway, I am getting many breaks in the audio since adding these new parts (only four tracks - song has around 45 tracks total), and have never had them before. I have also tried increasing the "Sound Buffer" in the Audio preferences all tha waynup as far as it weould go (2 secs) but all that would do is delay the opos and breaks until further in the song. As far as I know, my sound card is on it's own IRQ. SO, can anyonbe help me with a way to get rid of the pops and breaks? Thanks JP
Subject:RE: Audio Pops and Breaks Reply by: Iacobus Date:12/17/2001 10:44:59 PM It would help to have a fast hard drive (at least a 7200 RPM model) to do what you want. You might also want to optimize the hard drive on top of that (Use ScanDisk and Disk Defragmenter at least once every two weeks. Check out this SF knowledge base article for more info. Try also changing the Beatmapped tracks to Loop type tracks. Double-click the track icon in the track list and select, "Loop," for track type under the General tab. Use caution. A typical, single track can eat up about 45+ MB of RAM. HTH, Iacobus
Subject:RE: Audio Pops and Breaks Reply by: pina0004 Date:12/19/2001 2:28:34 PM Hey. Thanks for the reply. I will try your advice, changing from BeatMapper to Loops. After some troubleshooting, I found out that the problem might be in some new tracks I recorded. I recorded some vocal bites in Cubase, saved as Wav files, then imported into ACID. I also spiced them up in Sound Forge (compression, echo, etc.), then used the ACID properties to save them as both Loops or Beatmapped (I've tried them both). In ACID, I've sliced them up pretty extensively. When I mute these tracks in ACID, everything plays fine. Also, if I mute other tracks, it plays fine. Maybe it's a track overload or effect overload problems? Most of my tracks don't have effects, but those vocal tracks. JP In total, I have around 50 tracks. I am using two 40GB hard drives, both 7200 RPM. I appreciate your earlier replies. Thanks. JP

Subject:Audio Pops and Breaks

Posted by: pina0004

Date:12/16/2001 8:54:20 PM

Hi all. I am running ACID on an Athlon 1.4 GHZ machine w/ 256MB RAM. My sound card is a Delta 44. I have been looping successfully with ACID until today when I added some vocals that I recorded in Cubase, then smoothed out in Sound Forge, saved as Beatmapped, then opened up in ACID (may not be the best way to do this, but oh well).

Anyway, I am getting many breaks in the audio since adding these new parts (only four tracks - song has around 45 tracks total), and have never had them before. I have also tried increasing the "Sound Buffer" in the Audio preferences all tha waynup as far as it weould go (2 secs) but all that would do is delay the opos and breaks until further in the song.

As far as I know, my sound card is on it's own IRQ. SO, can anyonbe help me with a way to get rid of the pops and breaks? Thanks JP

Subject:RE: Audio Pops and Breaks

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:12/17/2001 10:44:59 PM

It would help to have a fast hard drive (at least a 7200 RPM model) to do what you want. You might also want to optimize the hard drive on top of that (Use ScanDisk and Disk Defragmenter at least once every two weeks.

Check out this SF knowledge base article for more info.

Try also changing the Beatmapped tracks to Loop type tracks. Double-click the track icon in the track list and select, "Loop," for track type under the General tab. Use caution. A typical, single track can eat up about 45+ MB of RAM.

HTH,
Iacobus

Subject:RE: Audio Pops and Breaks

Reply by: pina0004

Date:12/19/2001 2:28:34 PM

Hey. Thanks for the reply. I will try your advice, changing from BeatMapper to Loops. After some troubleshooting, I found out that the problem might be in some new tracks I recorded. I recorded some vocal bites in Cubase, saved as Wav files, then imported into ACID. I also spiced them up in Sound Forge (compression, echo, etc.), then used the ACID properties to save them as both Loops or Beatmapped (I've tried them both). In ACID, I've sliced them up pretty extensively. When I mute these tracks in ACID, everything plays fine. Also, if I mute other tracks, it plays fine. Maybe it's a track overload or effect overload problems? Most of my tracks don't have effects, but those vocal tracks. JP

In total, I have around 50 tracks. I am using two 40GB hard drives, both 7200 RPM. I appreciate your earlier replies. Thanks. JP