I have a BIG problem in FL6 :-(

[snowball]

Ok so here is the problem:

 

When i use more than one plugin(,not only downloaded VSTs though, sytrus and wasp that come with FL react in the same way) clicks and cracks appear.

 

At first it was only a mild annoyance,but now,combining sytrus and another VST (Syntar)that i dl,it has become terrible. I can no longer hear what i am making,its drowned in glitches and pops!Its inaudible!!

 

When i export the file though,as an MP3 or a WAV file,the sound is crystal clear. So it has something to do with FL

 

My cpu usage varies,sometimes its very low or very high,but the annoying sounds are allways present.so i dont think its a cpu problem.

 

My RAM is 1gb,so i rule this out .

 

My soundcard is a Creative SB Live! that came with the pc.(on demand though)

Can it be my soundcard? Am confused cause if the problem was my soundcard,the glitches would appear ALSO when i exported the file.WTF!

 

can someone PLEASE help!! I need to make music,am addicted to it,its my fix!!!

 

i hope that its not my soundcard,as i just spent my last money on books,and i am flat broke.

 

HELP!!!!

[phobium]

Could be a number of things. Are you using ASIO drivers?

[Reznik]

seems like latency problem.

at first higher the latency in steps and check if its working.

and of course use asio drivers, if you dont, try http://www.asio4all.com/

[snowball]

yeah i have asio drivers!!!

 

 

i will try to work with the latency!!!

 

 

EDIT: something fucked up my asio files.i will try to find the zip file with the drivers.

 

Reznik are those ASIO reliable?

[Reznik]

  snowball said:

Reznik are those ASIO reliable?

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they are, very popular and used all over the planet, dont worry.

before you install read faq on site

but if you already have asio drivers for your card, try a reinstall first.

also check if something in your properties of fl changed.

[acidkills]

And if that dont work than u can go on creative labs site and download asio drivers for SB live! I have that card too and I will first try to download those drivers then if that doesnt work asio4all must.. What is the minimum latency u can achieve with that card?

[pixxxan]

  snowball said:

Reznik are those ASIO reliable?

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Is Asio reliable???

Man in which world have you been living on?

Of course it is, even the best audiocards like firewire motu or RME use them. they are what u need to get low latency.

I think that if ur asio drivers messed up, that is most probably the source of ur problems.

I think that creative soundcards are not a good choice for producing on pc. there are way better audiocards for the same price (like some of maudio - audiophile)

ok since u already got it, i can give u some and advice as i owned a audigy myself some years ago. Dont use the Creative drivers! they suck!

There is a company that makes asio drivers for creative cards like Live and Audigy

Its called KX audio, look them up in google. This may sound strange , but these drivers are way way better than Creatives (dont ask me why) Check em out, ull be surprised how well they work.

Cheers

[snowball]

  pixxxan said:

Is Asio reliable???

Man in which world have you been living on?

Of course it is, even the best audiocards like firewire motu or RME use them. they are what u need to get low latency.

I think that if ur asio drivers messed up, that is most probably the source of ur problems.

I think that creative soundcards are not a good choice for producing on pc. there are way better audiocards for the same price (like some of maudio - audiophile)

ok since u already got it, i can give u some and advice as i owned a audigy myself some years ago. Dont use the Creative drivers! they suck!

There is a company that makes asio drivers for creative cards like Live and Audigy

Its called KX audio, look them up in google. This may sound strange , but these drivers are way way better than Creatives (dont ask me why) Check em out, ull be surprised how well they work.

Cheers

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dude.

i know that ASIO drivers are very important and very widely used,i was asking reznik if those asio4all drivers were reliabe,cause there have been a lot of rumours about their unstability and crashes they cause.maybe their latest version is reliable though,i still havent dl them,am so fucking busy these days and i HAVE to buy an new hard drive,i've got only 2gb left.(out of 80)

 

yeah i know that my soundcard its shit for making music.

 

hey thank for the tip,am gonna check them out!

[Getafix]

Also try increasing your buffer settings in FL..That helps sometimes as well..

[Kalki]

asio4al is not giving good result for me. when i use that my cpu usage is increasing alot. its more faster with my soundcard drive.

 

if ur asio dosnt work select ur card n increase the buffer size. i think that will solve the problem

[acidkills]

  pixxxan said:

I think that creative soundcards are not a good choice for producing on pc. there are way better audiocards for the same price (like some of maudio - audiophile)

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You are saying that Creative Sound Blaster Live! worths as much as M-audio Audiophile 2496 or 192??? Are u mad??? I have SB Live and Audiophile is 10 times and more expensive than SB..

Anyways thanks for suggestion for that KX

[crazyboy]

  snowball said:

Ok so here is the problem:

 

When i use more than one plugin(,not only downloaded VSTs though, sytrus and wasp that come with FL react in the same way)  clicks and cracks appear.

 

At first it was only a mild annoyance,but now,combining sytrus and another VST (Syntar)that i dl,it has become terrible. I can no longer hear what i am making,its drowned in glitches and pops!Its inaudible!!      

 

When i export the file though,as an MP3 or a WAV file,the sound is crystal clear. So it has something to do with FL

 

My cpu usage varies,sometimes its very low or very high,but the annoying sounds are allways present.so i dont think its a cpu problem.

 

My RAM is 1gb,so i rule this out .

 

My soundcard is a Creative SB Live! that came with the pc.(on demand though)

Can it be my soundcard? Am confused cause if the problem was my soundcard,the glitches would appear ALSO when i exported the file.WTF!

 

can someone PLEASE help!! I need to make music,am addicted to it,its my fix!!!

 

i hope that its not my soundcard,as i just spent my last money on books,and i am flat broke.

 

HELP!!!!

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hello my friend,

 

i'm in the same situation with the same program as you!

So i have tried to found solution to this problem many times.

Fistly,if you load a lot of vst,like me(about 10)or you,the song will have prob because music progs cant load many vst and play in a good way.

After researches i found that solution is:or faster cpu or extract to wav the vst channels with more fx!

Also,Dont put many fx in a channel!!

 

thanx

 

PS:sorry for the greekenglish!!!

[snowball]

  crazyboy said:

hello my friend,

 

i'm in the same situation with the same program as you!

So i have tried to found solution to this problem many times.

Fistly,if you load a lot of vst,like me(about 10)or you,the song will have prob because music progs cant load many vst and play in a good way.

After researches i found that solution is:or faster cpu or extract to wav the vst channels with more fx!

Also,Dont put many fx in a channel!!

 

thanx

 

PS:sorry for the greekenglish!!!

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thanks for the tips man! i have inreased the latency and for the moment its ok!

 

nο worrys for the greekenglish,και ελληνικα μονο να εγραφες παλι ΟΚ θα ηταν!

[crazyboy]

  snowball said:

thanks for the tips man! i have inreased the latency and for the moment its ok!

 

nο worrys for the greekenglish,και ελληνικα μονο να εγραφες παλι ΟΚ θα ηταν!  

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palavos edo boy!

[snowball]

  pixxxan said:

Is Asio reliable???

Man in which world have you been living on?

Of course it is, even the best audiocards like firewire motu or RME use them. they are what u need to get low latency.

I think that if ur asio drivers messed up, that is most probably the source of ur problems.

I think that creative soundcards are not a good choice for producing on pc. there are way better audiocards for the same price (like some of maudio - audiophile)

ok since u already got it, i can give u some and advice as i owned a audigy myself some years ago. Dont use the Creative drivers! they suck!

There is a company that makes asio drivers for creative cards like Live and Audigy

Its called KX audio, look them up in google. This may sound strange , but these drivers are way way better than Creatives (dont ask me why) Check em out, ull be surprised how well they work.

Cheers

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finally those kx drivers are not that good.they caused me bugs all over the place,and now i get this error message every time i start the pc.even fl crashes when i select them,i have to unisstall them and reinstall the oriniginal creative drivers.....maybe it was a bad install

[pixxxan]

  snowball said:

finally those kx drivers are not that good.they caused me bugs all over the place,and now i get this error message every time i start the pc.even fl crashes when i select them,i have to unisstall them and reinstall the oriniginal creative drivers.....maybe it was a bad install

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yesss.. i forgot to tell u they are not that easy to install, i had to get a system freak friend of mine to install them for me!

but they are good!

[acidkills]

  pixxxan said:

yesss.. i forgot to tell u they are not that easy to install, i had to get a system freak friend of mine to install them for me!

but they are good!

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Yeah, thanks for forgot to tell us, Im lucky my friend didnt bring me the drivers still.. Can u at least describe what that system freak done to get it right?

[snowball]

  pixxxan said:

yesss.. i forgot to tell u they are not that easy to install, i had to get a system freak friend of mine to install them for me!

but they are good!

599623[/snapback]

you owe me a new soundcard.

[acidkills]

  pixxxan said:

yesss.. i forgot to tell u they are not that easy to install, i had to get a system freak friend of mine to install them for me!

but they are good!

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Me too.. How will u pay that back man? Better think of a good way cause u are busted otherwise.. I already talked with my lawyer..

[snowball]

the problem has reappeared. it had stopped,but after reinstalling the drivers because kx fucked them up(pixxxan am looking at you ) it has reappeard,i have set the buffer at 300ms,but its still fucked up.

 

am gonna dl those asi4all and give them a try.

[snowball]

this is disgustingly fucked up.

 

asio4all doesnt produce any sound and cpu usagfe jumps to 100%.

 

i had been using the primary sound driver(as it says in the audio options) with 300ms latency and it had been pretty much OK.the occasional pop and crack but acceptable.

 

i added a z3ta for a pad and its all gone to hell again. max latencey wont change a thing,the sb live(C400) drivers are even worse and asio4all is mute.

 

should i throw the pc out the window,or is there still hope?

 

[Reznik]

have you selected the asio driver in fl properties.

 

what are your system specs?

[snowball]

  Reznik said:

have you selected the asio driver in fl properties.

 

what are your system specs?

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yeah man,in audio properties.

 

intel p4 2.6

soundblaster live!

1gb ram

[Reznik]

fucking shit.

 

i think you messed it up, with installing so many drivers.

you need to uninstall/delete all sound drivers properly from your system.

asio4all was working at my system i had before.

 

do you have anything like tuneup utilities?

[snowball]

  Reznik said:

fucking shit.

 

i think you messed it up, with installing so many drivers.

you need to uninstall/delete all sound drivers properly from your system.

asio4all was working at my system i had before.

 

do you have anything like tuneup utilities?

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dude i did that yesterday. i unistalled kx.unistalled the creative drivers.re installed the creative drivers and then the asio4all.

 

i have un updated version of the creative drivers though that i haven installed yet,but i dont think it will do any good cause i allready had them installed before installing this version and the pops and cracks were there.

 

yeah i have tuneup!can it help?

 

edit ; i noticed that if i mouve my mouse quiclky whne fl6 is playing back a pattern or song the skips and cracks appear.also if i want to hear a note in the piano roll by cliking on the keyboard keys on the right,the sound is full of pops and cracks and it skips.

 

so i deleted the extra z3ta channel i wanted to use for a pad,and the cracks are gone.