I hope one of you wizards can help me? I have a new computer & just got X-2 last week!! I have done all the tweaks that I could except the BIOS which I don't know how to do. Used the Sweetwater guide. I have the audio files set for my external 2TB hard drive. I've changed the ASIO setting thru the quadcapture back and forth. I haven't recorded anything of consequence yet so I'm in set-up phase! I have two problems I can't figure out? I have no pan control from my consol & when I use Ctrl-S to save i hear a loud scrathy noise that is driving me nutz!!! Then of course it crashes. Any suggestions would be helpful.

Do you have the latest 64bit drivers for your Quadcapture installed in your PC.
Then i would try WDM and ASIO driver modes and see what works best for you.

I have no pan control from my consol & when I use Ctrl-S to save i hear a loud scrathy noise that is driving me nutz!!!

What console are you using? I would assume that the console is at fault, if you cant pan your audio signal going form your console to your audio interface. You probably dont even need a separate console if you have an audio interface. I would do away with it.


As far as your noise when you "save as". I bet its an IRQ conflict. So iu would look into that 


Cj

You are correct CJ....I use an interface. I was reffering to the console view in X-2... I will look into the quadcapture driver and as for the IRQ conflict? I have no idea how to deal with that? Thanks for the response!

daddyV: show me your computers home page !

Take a look in your preferences goto sync & caching If the two boxes in "file system" are checked, uncheck them and see if the pops and clicks are gone.

Firstly, go to the settings of your interface

Try making the sample rate 44.1 - this will have to match what Sonar is set to but you have to start somewhere so do that here

Try setting the number of samples parameter to 256 - it's a reasonable starting point

Now BEFORE going into Sonar, test out the sound of playing a song through Windows Media Player.  Sound OK?

Now go into Sonar - don't bother getting into a project yet - go to Edit>Preferences>Audio>Playback and Recording
What driver mode are you running in?  Set it to ASIO then click Apply

Now click on Driver Settings on the left


Set the Sample Rate to 44.1 to match the interface settings

Click Apply

Close out of this

Open a new project with Normal template

Insert an audio track

Click on the number 1 on the left side of the track to select it

Click File>Edit>Import Audio and import some MP3 or WMA file,  this will load it to track 1

Now click Play or hit the space bar

How does it sound?  Does it sound?

The above just checks a simple audio file for playback outside of Sonar and also within Sonar

Please post results

Bob Bone

I will try all those suggestions 1 at a time of course.

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TS 520z
• Windows 7 Ultimate [64-bit]
• AMD A8-3800 quad-core processor [2.4GHz, 4MB L2 Cache, Max Memory Speed: DDR3-1600]
• 8GB DDR3-1333MHz SODIMM [2 DIMMs]
• 1TB 7200 rpm SATA hard drive
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• Norton Internet Security(TM) 2012 - 3 year
• 2GB AMD Radeon HD 7650A
• Slim Slot Blu-ray player & SuperMulti DVD burner
• Premium Wireless-N LAN card and Bluetooth(R )
• 6-in-1 Card Reader, 2 total USB 3.0, audio
• No TV Tuner
• Integrated sound
• HP wireless keyboard and wireless optical mouse

Update all your drivers (inc graphics card, sound card, chipset). Do not rely on HP's site for update drivers, instead go to each manufacturers website to make sure you have the latest version. Run windows update. Update all your firmware and BIOSs for all your hardware. Run scandisk and defrag your hard drive. Turn off AMD PowerNow in the BIOS.

And remember - the optical drive will NOT help your vision.

A mighty machine - should work well for you.

Bob Bone

Q for CakeAlex.....how do I turn off the AMD powernow?