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

[mark sottilaro <zerocrossing2001@yahoo.com>]

Wow.  I've been on the fence about what to buy, but
man the below reads like a vert for Apple.  I'm not
saying my Macs have never had issues, but my G4 has
had several audio interfaces hooked up to it in it's
day, has surfed the web a ton, is continually asked to
run the Adobe's CS, Maya, and Digital Performer and
not once in it's life have I ever even thought about
reinstalling the OS or scanning for malware.

That cute little Macbook is looking more and more
worth it.

Mark 

--- Krispen Hartung <khartung@cableone.net> wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> > It doesn't feel like this is your problem but
> while we're on the
> subject I've been having a much worse time with
> spyware and malware
> lately than I have with viruses.  Virus scanners
> don't often catch
> these since they're not technically viruses.  The
> best malware scanner
> I've used so far is Spyware Doctor from PC Tools. 
> You really need
> both a virus scanner and malware scanner right now,
> though I expect to
> see some convergence in the future.  Spyware can
> easily bring your
> system to its knees and there are some clever
> "rootkit" techniques
> they use to hide themselves.
> 
> Good point. My notebook is so new that I'm not
> infested yet. Plus, I just 
> made a decision to not use my music notebook to surf
> the web. I only use it 
> to download drivers from manufactures, etc.  I used
> to use a program called 
> SE Adware, which was decent.
> 
> > Clicking/popping that coincides with modulation
> sounds like digital
> clipping caused by gain added by the effect.  This
> might also explain
> why sound generating plugins don't exhibit the same
> problem.  Is the
> input signal from the Echo unusually hot?  Can you
> back it down a bit
> in a software mixer?
> 
> I monitor my input level, and it is very low....so I
> ruled that out.  I keep 
> racking my brain that my entire sytem worked
> perfectly until I installed 
> Audigy 2. All my settings are the same....at least
> those that I can 
> controll. I'm searching for that hidden setting that
> change samplerate to 
> 48. I've checked everywhere - registry, control
> panel, system, apps, etc.
> 
> > Assuming gain staging is correct, clicking is
> almost always caused by
> a missed audio interrupt and the causes are either
> that the
> application is too slow to respond to the driver or
> that the driver is
> too slow to respond to the hardware due to some
> conflict.  Reinstalling
> the OS should fix both, but won't indicate which of
> the two it was.
> 
> Uggg....I am dreading having to reinstall the
> OS..cripes, a brand new 
> notebook. I hate doing that.
> 
> > I occasionally get mysterious clicks from my older
> PCI sound card,
> these seem to be solved by rebooting and running a
> "calibrate converter"
> utility in the driver's control panel.
> 
> I can't seem to find anything to perform this in my
> system and drivers.
> 
> Kris
> 
> 
> 
> 


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