Ticking sound on playback

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robehr
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2005/09/26 07:20:37 (permalink)

Ticking sound on playback

Hi

I am a new Home Studio user...hope you can help.

I am getting a strange, broken sound when playing back tracks in home studio. This is accompanied by certain objects on the screen flickering at the same rate as well as the ticking sound. The closest I can get to a description of this is that it sounds like an old cassette tape being played...if this makes any sense

This disappers when exporting the project into e.g. mp3 and then playing it back.

How can this be remedied?
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    daveny5
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    RE: Ticking sound on playback 2005/09/26 10:07:48 (permalink)
    I'm not answering any more questions where the person posing the question doesn't specify the specs of their computer and soundcard.

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    RE: Ticking sound on playback 2005/09/27 02:14:23 (permalink)
    Dude, if you have sounds and screen flickering, you have big system issues.
    post edited by Robomusic - 2005/09/27 02:21:52
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    RE: Ticking sound on playback 2005/09/27 02:46:24 (permalink)
    ...now I know that soundcard info is important when posing these type of questions...I'm new at this game. I thought this type of problem could be one commonly experienced.
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    RE: Ticking sound on playback 2005/09/27 10:18:51 (permalink)
    You still haven't described your system. I don't know about screen flickers (does it only happen when you run HS?), but if you are using a SoundBlaster type card I use to get a faint clicking (it sounded like a record scratch - a steady tempo) when recording through it. Not on everything. I think it might have had to do with the SB Emu chip which runs native at 48 kHz. Since I was going do CDs, I recorded at 44.1. I think that is where the problem came from, but that was years ago.

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    RE: Ticking sound on playback 2005/09/28 02:51:58 (permalink)
    Hi Dave

    Thanks for your feedback...the symptoms you are describing resembles what I am experiencing.

    Herewith my system details:

    System: MS Windows XP Professional Version 2 Service Pack 2
    Intel (R) Pentium 4 CPU 1.6 GHz
    192 MB RAM

    Soundcard

    Chipset :

    . Aopen AS9600D audio chipset

    System Interface :

    . 32bit PCI Bus Master, PCI 2.1 / PCI 2.2 compliant

    Hardware Interface :

    . Newest single chip 5.1 channel PCI sound audio solution
    . HRTF-base 3D positional audio, supporting DirectSoundâ„¢3D, EAXâ„¢ and A3D interface
    . Karaoke system enabled
    . Supports multi-speaker output to 2 / 2.1 / 4 / 4.1 / 5.1

    speakers
    . Support RCA and Digital I/O connector Support EAX™, Karaoke key, Echo… sound effects
    . High Performance Dual Game Port
    . MPU401 compatible MIDI interface & GM
    . Comply with Microsoft® PC99 specification
    . DLS-base Wavetable music synthesizer
    . Fully Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster Pro compatible and Direct Sound compatible

    Connector :

    . Front-Out, Rear-Out, Center & LFE, Line-In, MIC-In and Game/MIDI port
    . CD Audio, AUX, Modem, SPDIF

    System Requirements

    . IBM compatible PC with 32-bit PCI slot.
    . Microsoft® Windows® 95/98/98SE, Windows® Me, Windows® 2000, Windows® XP, Windows NT® 4.0 or DOS
    . Intel® Pentium® 200 MHz CPU above (Recommended)
    . 32MB system memory (Minimum)
    . 30MB available HDD space
    . CD-ROM drive (or DVD-ROM drive Recommended)

    Software Bundle

    . Multi-channel Speaker Tester
    . WinDVDâ„¢ 2000
    . WinRip
    . GAMUT2000
    . Powerful Audio Rack (CD / Midi / Wav / MP3 / VCD and Karaoke Player )

    Cheers

    Robehr

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    RE: Ticking sound on playback 2005/09/28 08:31:11 (permalink)
    Well, the obvious thing is that 192MB RAM isn't even enought to run Windows XP, let alone Home Studio at the same time...
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    RE: Ticking sound on playback 2005/09/28 09:48:43 (permalink)
    That's exactly why I didn't want to answer without the specs.

    192MB RAM is not enough. That's probably your problem. I can't believe anyone sold you a Windows XP system with less than 512MB of memory. You should also consider getting a better soundcard. The onboard chipsets aren't very good.
    post edited by daveny5 - 2005/09/28 09:56:48

    Dave
    Computer: Intel i7, ASROCK H170M, 16GB/5TB+, Windows 10 Pro 64-bit, Sonar Platinum, TASCAM US-16x08, Cakewalk UM-3G MIDI I/F
    Instruments: SL-880 Keyboard controller, Korg 05R/W, Korg N1R, KORG Wavestation EX
    Axes: Fender Stratocaster, Line6 Variax 300, Ovation Acoustic, Takamine Nylon Acoustic, Behringer GX212 amp, Shure SM-58 mic, Rode NT1 condenser mic.
    Outboard: Mackie 1402-VLZ mixer, TC Helicon VoiceLive 2, Digitech Vocalist WS EX, PODXTLive, various stompboxes and stuff. 
    Controllers: Korg nanoKONTROL, Wacom Bamboo Touchpad
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