Newbie question (I guess)

I'm new to Sonar 3 and to the forum. I have a nice collection of loops (mostly acidized) and I'm trying to start a project with some drum loops. They preview fine, but once imported into a track, sound grundgy when played back. Based on some research in your archives, I thought the problem might be a timing mismatch, but I have the project tempo and the loop temp set the same. The grunge is kind of like there is a badly timed click track going on at the same time. I've fooled with the slicing, beats in clip, etc to no avail.

I dropped in another generic wave file (an organ solo) and it is grundgy sounding also. Everything is at 16 bit. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks in advance for any help!!!

The problem is likely nothing to do with the loops if they preview fine. It could be your Audio Options are not properly optimised. Make sure that straight audio plays back without any clicks and pops first. Then try out the loops again. Try importing a longish wav file to use for testing. Then go to Options/Audio/General and try increasing the buffer size, or the number of buffers, and run the wave profiler. Not sure if this is the problem, but you need to eliminate that possibility. If your still having problems then post back.

EDIT: Al's post wasn't there when I started to reply.

Cliff

Well, the problem is now solved. I downloaded latest Turtle Beach Santa Cruz drivers from their site, the latest WDM driver is sc_4193.

Then I downloaded and ran ASIO4ALL from

http://michael.tippach.bei.t-online.de/asio4all/

I now have ASIO support, 15ms latency (vs. >100ms with WDM) and NO DISTORTION (woo-hoo!!).

Thanks to all for their help in isolating the problem.
Now that the drum loops are imported, on to the live recording.