Static/snow, whatever Cakewalk 9
Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 3:31 am
Ok, I've been trying to solve this for about 3 months now. I'm running cakewalk Audio 9, on a Gateway PIII, with Windows98 and a recently installed MAudo 2496 sound card. Ok, I realize it's an older system, but I have a really hard time believing that Cakewalk is so intensive as to cause this problem with this system.
Here's the problem. I can start a new file, record the first track. No problem. I record a second track, and maybe no problem there either as long as I nail it on the first take. By the way, this is strickly analog audio, no Midi. By the time I'm into the 2nd or 3rd track, and/or take, I've got this static (snow) behind the the recording in the track that sounds like the kind of thing you'd get with something that emits an RF signal around a radio. It's not something going on in the house. I'm sure of that.
So I back out of Cakewalk for about 1 or 2 minutes, go back in and I can do another track or take. If I screw it up, and try and retake, no dice. There's the static again. It seems to be harder to get a good take the longer the track is. For instance, If I do a quick vocal verse, chorus, take I am usually sucessful however, if I want to do a bass track, or a rythm guitar track that will run the length of the tune, it's going to be more difficult to get through it without having the problem. I've acutally gone as far as to record a few bars of a rythem guitar part and copy and past to get through, rather than just record to the end.
Ideas???????? I shoud also mention that I've got a couple of other inferior multi track softwares on this machine and I am not experiencing this problem with any of them. I also have Sonic Foundry's Sound Forge, which also seem to have no problems at all.
Here's the problem. I can start a new file, record the first track. No problem. I record a second track, and maybe no problem there either as long as I nail it on the first take. By the way, this is strickly analog audio, no Midi. By the time I'm into the 2nd or 3rd track, and/or take, I've got this static (snow) behind the the recording in the track that sounds like the kind of thing you'd get with something that emits an RF signal around a radio. It's not something going on in the house. I'm sure of that.
So I back out of Cakewalk for about 1 or 2 minutes, go back in and I can do another track or take. If I screw it up, and try and retake, no dice. There's the static again. It seems to be harder to get a good take the longer the track is. For instance, If I do a quick vocal verse, chorus, take I am usually sucessful however, if I want to do a bass track, or a rythm guitar track that will run the length of the tune, it's going to be more difficult to get through it without having the problem. I've acutally gone as far as to record a few bars of a rythem guitar part and copy and past to get through, rather than just record to the end.
Ideas???????? I shoud also mention that I've got a couple of other inferior multi track softwares on this machine and I am not experiencing this problem with any of them. I also have Sonic Foundry's Sound Forge, which also seem to have no problems at all.