Interitus
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I've got a presonus firestudio and a 6 mic kit by shure for recording. I tried installing the Cubase LE that came with the firestudio, but it crapped out a few minutes into install, corrupt file or somesuch. So, I downloaded cubase 4 off the net, got it installed, and managed to get it working through all the crashes. For a while, I had a problem with playback, all the sound, even mp3s in winamp, sounded distorted, like they were clipping, crackly and such. I can't remember exactly what I did, other than turning off monitoring, but it went away and playback sounded fine. And so I did a few recordings, and used it successfully for a few weeks.
Then the other day, cubase decided to start crapping out and screwing up. I lost all my settings and had to try and get the firestudio properly set up in VST connections again, but it was crashing every 5 seconds and I gave up. Apparently the cracked versions crash constantly. So, I looked online for alternatives. I have Adobe Audition legally on my main computer, so all I need is a BASIC program to just record the tracks. I gave N-track a try, but the interface was very confusing and I couldnt get it configured right.
I've now got Reaper installed, seems easy to use, was basically working with very little setup. But my playback is crackly again. I tried increasing buffer size to 1024, tried a few other settings here and there, but I can't figure out what's wrong. Any ideas?
My recording system:
Athlon X2 somethingorother
1GB RAM
Hercules Gametheater XP (with the external box)
Windows XP SP2.
Very few other programs installed, just VLC, winamp... acrobat reader..
Then the other day, cubase decided to start crapping out and screwing up. I lost all my settings and had to try and get the firestudio properly set up in VST connections again, but it was crashing every 5 seconds and I gave up. Apparently the cracked versions crash constantly. So, I looked online for alternatives. I have Adobe Audition legally on my main computer, so all I need is a BASIC program to just record the tracks. I gave N-track a try, but the interface was very confusing and I couldnt get it configured right.
I've now got Reaper installed, seems easy to use, was basically working with very little setup. But my playback is crackly again. I tried increasing buffer size to 1024, tried a few other settings here and there, but I can't figure out what's wrong. Any ideas?
My recording system:
Athlon X2 somethingorother
1GB RAM
Hercules Gametheater XP (with the external box)
Windows XP SP2.
Very few other programs installed, just VLC, winamp... acrobat reader..