#audiotrouble

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Dont foget to check out the Point Cool Productions website - http://www.pointcoolproductions.com/

For about a year, since Dec 2012 I have been using windows 7, I was running windows xp. For half of the year I would run Ableton 9 with the same setup. Then I had to reinstall again. That was about a month ago, ever since half a year ago I've been having awful lag with my computer's sound (especially in ableton) Now things got better when I reinstalled, but my computer loves to crash because I use legacy hardware, these bozos around here do not have the soundcard I wish to have and money is tight, so I have to rely on what I have. The problem is, I have built in Reatek soundcard, this is dreadful awful latency when you play keyboard. Something like 16ms on 256 buffer asio4all SB gets me 8mb. Just awful, I'm using a Audigy SE Soundblaster, this card has been flawless for years, but as soon as windows 7 comes along, here we go with crazy problems. I went looking for Daniel K divers, they will not install. It's getting to the point where I can't even enjoy writing music, very frustrating. I'm very close to going back to XP, XP was more realtime than crap windows 7. 7 has it's good points and I'm sure not going to 8. My computer hates my Audigy SE, windows 7 eventually does a BSOD, out the blue (pun intended.) I'm running out of ideas, I can't go back to XP with 2 GB more ram wasted, pretty annoyed. Soundblaster doesn't make a new driver for windows 7, oddly looks like I'm stuck in lagsville. I know Linux is my answer but then I would have to fight with wine, and I don't wish to run ableton on wine. Even net shows might be out until this is remedied.

I think I should share this one, about Feb I uploaded a show called (Elevators and Mineshafts) that I thought sounded good. Until I listened one more time today. Seems that there are 'audio artifacts' in the music. I started blaming them on my soundcard. Through investigation I discovered after listening to the master wav file they were still there. Then I went to the source, Ableton, and they were there too. Come to find out it was a plugin in my chain doing it. Premut8, this is a great plugin, but little knowledge was given to what it really can do. It creates crazy digital effects, but it can also be used for a filter and even for tape hiss sounds. Upon turning off the effects "premut8" the sound went away totally. If anyone uses audio software, if you have a undesirable sound at that moment use a gate to cut the sound off until the time..  UPDATE: Listening to these abnormalities is heard when turning up the volume high, but I kind of like them, they will remain, it gives them character.