Totally Wierd Problem With Cakewalk.

[Dar]

Suddenly for no apparent reason, my audio files in cakewalk Home
Studio 2002
play with a very irritating click, tick tick tick tick, 4 times a sec,
but only when there is volume on the file. It's acoustic guitar I
recorded , and it doesn't click during silent parts where I'm resting
or just not playing. It wasn't doing this AT ALL yesterday , and not
after I opened the Soundforge tools in cakewalk and did a volume tweak
on one channel . The first time I got some dumbass message about
Microsoft Sound Mapper not supporting blah blah blah and it shut me
down, but it worked next time with no message. I SWEAR that is the
only thing I did that's different today, and it didn't click yesterday
after that incident. So, for no apparent reason...

It's not my amp because I can play a cd without clicking . It seems
to be Cakewalk , but I'm clueless about what it is, since it magically
appeared , and rebooting hasn't helped. At first I thought it was a
recording artifact and I would have to re-record (NO!!! PLEASE !!!)
but I played the parts of the file I had been playing yesterday and
they clicked too. This is the totally screwiest thing I've ever had
happen , and that's saying something, trust me O^8#

So... WTF ? any ideas ?...

TIA,
Dar

[Dar]

I hope the files aren't corrupted , because I could move them to my
old computer and use it to do my editing . Wouldn't that be a master
stroke of irony?... all the setup of a new system , moving everything
upstairs here ,
and then I end up back on the old 500mhz box ?. But I better check
about that possible corruption .
D (horrified to think)

[Dar]

On Dec 9, 9:49 pm, Dar > wrote:
But I better check
> about that possible corruption .
> D (horrified to think)



Big sigh... files not corrupted. Problem still there, but at least I
can work on the other computer.
Am I glad I kept the old one intact ?. glad I went to the trouble of
setting up two workstations here
where there's only room for one ?, that I got that extra soundcard and
junk so I could do all of the above ?, glad
that I was too lazy and stupid to set everything up all on the new
computer?... yep....
Blog off>>>

DS

[Doc]

On Dec 9, 11:43 pm, Dar > wrote:
> Suddenly for no apparent reason, my audio files in cakewalk Home
> Studio 2002
> play with a very irritating click, tick tick tick tick, 4 times a sec,
> but only when there is volume on the file. It's acoustic guitar I
> recorded , and it doesn't click during silent parts where I'm resting
> or just not playing. It wasn't doing this AT ALL yesterday , and not
> after I opened the Soundforge tools in cakewalk and did a volume tweak
> on one channel .


Hmm. Any chance you might have accidentally changed the sample rate on
the project?

Try exporting one of the clips/tracks as a .wav fle and see how it
sounds played in another app.

[Dar]

On Dec 10, 12:46 am, Doc > wrote:
> On Dec 9, 11:43 pm, Dar > wrote:
>
> > Suddenly for no apparent reason, my audio files in cakewalk Home
> > Studio 2002
> > play with a very irritating click, tick tick tick tick, 4 times a sec,
> > but only when there is volume on the file. It's acoustic guitar I
> > recorded , and it doesn't click during silent parts where I'm resting
> > or just not playing. It wasn't doing this AT ALL yesterday , and not
> > after I opened the Soundforge tools in cakewalk and did a volume tweak
> > on one channel .
>
> Hmm. Any chance you might have accidentally changed the sample rate on
> the project?
>
> Try exporting one of the clips/tracks as a .wav fle and see how it
> sounds played in another app.

Yeah, that may have happened when I got the first error message;it
mentioned
Microsoft Sound mapper not supporting the sample rate so it probably
reset.
I didn't intentionally change it though.


I did export the file and burn it , took it to the other computer and
opened it it soundforge
and it was fine but I haven't checked the sample rate .

So... get into Sound Mapper and tell it to behave or ... what? .
(No, I don't know wtf I'm doing, in any way, shape or form)

D

[Dar]

So, things are screwey but not because of sample rates. It was latency
settings , which shouldn't even be an issue with where that was set.
Briefly, my new comp is now setup in Cakewalk audio options at
latency about 70 ms buffer size and any setting above or below gives
me nasty , scratchy, crackly , playback of my recorded playing .

I know that that's a bogus deal because my old 500mhz comp can be set
with latency above or below that and have no problem with the same
scenario. The new comp is a P4 ,2.0 ghz chip, . I dunno, maybe there's
something wrong with the way the soundcard is set up. I was warned
that it would have issues.Not in the mood for trouble... probably
end up using the old box for this project. *&%^%^#$)(&*%&*$ curses,
foiled again!

DS

[Doc]

On Dec 10, 4:13 am, Dar > wrote:

> > Hmm. Any chance you might have accidentally changed the sample rate on
> > the project?
>
> > Try exporting one of the clips/tracks as a .wav fle and see how it
> > sounds played in another app.
>
> Yeah, that may have happened when I got the first error message;it
> mentioned
> Microsoft Sound mapper not supporting the sample rate so it probably
> reset.
> I didn't intentionally change it though.


Microsoft Sound Mapper? Shouldn't you be using the drivers for your
soundcard?