Pops and chirps...

newUzer wrote on 3/21/2005, 10:33 AM
I've searched vegas audio, video, and sound force audio studio for this topic, but haven't found a thread that seems to answer my question. Bascially, I'm not sure what I did, but I started to notice pops and chirps while playing wavs and mp3s using sound forge audio studio. So, I uninstalled it, and other apps that I had installed since everything worked last, and then reinstalled sound forge audio studio. The same thing uccured - pops and chirps while playing. So then I went to vegas and the same thing happened there, although less frequently. I uninstalled sound forge audio studio again and then tried vegas again - still there. The chirpping I'm talking about is like listening to a radio broadcast and then occasionally hearing another station chirp in once in a while. The wavs and mps3 play fine in windows media player and winamp, so it's not the source. I'm thinking it's the "engine" that vegas and sound forge audio studio use that's the problem. I tried various buffer settings and what-not (in vegas and SFAS), but nothing really solved the problem. Any ideas on what I might have corrupted? Am I wrong in assuming vegas and SFAS running on a 2GHz machine should play things flawlessly? I'm pretty sure that's the way I remember both apps (vegas and SFAS) working, but I could be wrong.

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Spot|DSE wrote on 3/21/2005, 10:39 AM
You sure your MP3 plugin is registered? I'm not certain if an unregistered gives you chirps, but with Noise Reduction and other purchased plugs, this is what those do, they "chirp" at random, allowing you to demo the plug, but also render it unusable.
newUzer wrote on 3/21/2005, 10:47 AM
But the same thing happens with raw wavs too, and it only seems to happen while using the sony products, which makes me suspicious.
Jameson_Prod wrote on 3/21/2005, 2:32 PM
I may be barking up the wrong tree...but just thoughts here:

1. What kind of sound card? M-Audio stuff does this from time to time. Bad drivers.
2. What type drivers are you using with your card? ASIO, WMD, ? Make sure the program and the drivers are the same.
3. Check your sample rates.....could be a mismatch there.

Good luck.
JohnnyRoy wrote on 3/21/2005, 3:01 PM
Does it happen at exactly the same place in the song or randomly? You say it doesn’t happen with non-Sony apps. Does it happen right away? Do you spend enough time in those others apps to wait for it to happen? It actually could be interference picked up by your speakers.

Just recently, I was getting a strange noise in my speakers. It happened every so often, sometimes when nothing was playing. I couldn’t find the source. Then one day, I was out at work in a conference call and the exact same interference happened on the conference phone! Realizing that I was the common thread, I traced it back to my new cell phone which is GSM instead of TDMA. Right after I got the phone was when these noises started. So one night I shut the phone off and the noises stopped! Apparently, the phone goes out to sync the time or check for messages or something and that’s when the noise happens. So don’t rule out interference from some radio source nearby.

~jr
ezway wrote on 3/21/2005, 3:45 PM
Hello, I am so sorry you are having these issues. It happened to me awhile back on a Athlon with a onboard sound card, a pci sound card, and AVID. Turns out my sound card was using the same interupt as the onboard sound card.
Best Wishes,
Marty
craftech wrote on 3/21/2005, 6:22 PM
Are you using an M-Audio sound card?

John
newUzer wrote on 3/22/2005, 6:17 PM
Marty,

Yes, I do have an Athlon board with onboard sound and a pci sound card - I don't use onboard sound, however, but it's definitely something to look into. It's strange that only Vegas and Sound Forge Audio Studio have this issue, and it's even stanger that it seems to be a recent phenomena.
rique wrote on 3/22/2005, 7:36 PM
I don't have a real solution for you but I can confirm I had the same problem but only with Sound Forge 7. A static electricity type noise eventually developed. I searched these boards but found no answer. I started doing my recording in Acid or Vegas. My recent upgrade to SF8 solved it and I hope it stays that way.