Snap, Crackle, Pop - VST Effect & Sound Card Problems

["Krispen Hartung" <khartung@cableone.net>]

It's these sort of problems, despite my love of new laptop technology, 
that 
make me want to sell all my computers, audio programs, and find a new day 
job like planting trees in the mountains.

As you know, I got everything setup nicely on my ThinkPad T60. I had all 
my 
cool VST plugins, including newly purchased Cycling 74 Hipno, with Mobius, 
and all running in the Chainer VST host. It was a beautiful thing.  Oh, 
was 
it nice...

...but, as with a lot of you, I like to tinker. After our thread last week 
on the fact that Indigo IO only has line level input, whereas the Creative 
Labs Audigy 2 has line and mic, I thought I might try installing the 
Audigy 
2 on my new notebook. So, I uninstalled the IO and installed the Audigy. 
Long story short, something wasn't working right, so I uninstalled Audigy 
and re-installed IO.  But I wasn't in Kansas any longer. Now, when I run 
my 
VST host, Chainer or EnergyXT, I am getting some snapping and popping when 
I 
activate many of my VSTs, especially the Hipno plugins. I tried all sorts 
of 
things to resolve the problem....changing my buffer settings, frequency 
response, etc....no change.  This has me baffled. IO was working 
perfectly, 
but it seems Audigy has hosed something up.

Any thoughts on what may have happened. I was thinking of calling tech 
support, but I'm not sure who to call, as the source of the problem is not 
clear to me.

Jeff.....I'm really wanting to try Max now. I may load the demo up today 
and 
see if I have the same problem.

Kris


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