May 12, 2010 02:57 pm Maybe post a sample of a recording so we can hear exactly what's going on?
Acid Pro 7 issues with older sound card
Posted on May 11, 2010 06:33 pm
coppernaut
Member Since: May 11, 2010
Ok, I'm an amateur music recorder. Up until recently, my roughly 5-6 year old PC has been recording music just fine with the likes of Sonar 3 Producer and many versions of Acid, Acid 4 Pro being the last one I owned. All this was on my PC (specs below) using Windows XP 32-bit, and it worked great.
(everything has the latest drivers, never overclocked)
Asus P5B Deluxe motherboard
6G Corsair XMS PC6400
X6800 Core 2 Duo Extreme 2.93ghz CPU
150G WD Raptor HD
Enermax PRO82+ 625w power supply
HD Radeon 4870
Soundblaster Audigy II Platinum sound card
(sound card comes with the old front mounting drive that allows the plug in of guitar cables/mics)
I recently put Windows 7 64-bit on this PC, and I went through quite a few pains of software incompatibilities, mainly my old recording software I mentioned above. So I decided to get the trial of Acid 7 Pro. The software is excellent, I can hear my guitars and vocals through the speakers as I'm recording, but when I play it back, it sounds like somebody is putting their hand on a record while it's trying to play a song, with a lot of static and volume fading. I've tried to set my recording inputs to every option, classic windows driver, two different Creative ASIO settings, and microsoft sound mapper. All pretty much give me the same result, while the ASIO's don't even work, saying it won't accept the option because it doesn't support my current sample rate or bit depth, which is on default, which is also second from the lowest it can go. I was never great at tweaking the recording options, and I've usually just left them on default, until I ran into these problems, so I started changing settings in hoped to fix it. No luck.
I've been kind of wondering if this sound card has just had it's day, and it's either going out on me, or is just incompatible with my OS or the latest music recording software. I'm not sure though, that's why I'm here. To figure out the problem so I can get back to having fun. If anybody has any input on this situation, it'd be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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May 12, 2010 02:57 pm Maybe post a sample of a recording so we can hear exactly what's going on?
May 12, 2010 07:09 pm Thanks for posting, yeah sure. I have some company over tonight, but I'll post a sample hopefully a little later, if not then tomorrow. Much appreciated.
May 13, 2010 09:50 pm I'm just going to bite the bullet on this one. I've spent the last 3 hours trying to get Acid Pro 7 to record my guitar or voice, and for some reason I can't get it to work at all now. I'm not sure if it was like this before, but all of my recording devices are "currently unavailable", and all I remember doing is putting everything on default a few days ago. I might try and reinstall the drivers this weekend and see what happens. If there's no luck, then I'm just going to buy a new card that's made more for recording music than multimedia. I don't know what I expected to solve with my post. I guess I was just being hopeful. My problem is vague, and pretty evident. I'll post back if reinstalling the drivers fixes it. Thanks anyway Quincysan. I appreciate the help.
Edit** I'm really digging this website though, aside from all my personal BS.
Aug 14, 2010 10:41 am I went through something similar when I downloaded acidpro7 and opened a recording that was done in acidpro4. The odd thing is, is that it sounded great for a couple of days. Then something happened that made some of the tracks sound like they have a blanket placed over them Very muffled sounding. It has nothing to do with acidpro however. That is the one thing that I have been able to determine. Something changed on the system that I use acid pro7 on (a laptop) that changed the sound of this loop. Perhaps it is Vista as opposed to XP? A recent windows upgrade that I had to download? I don't know what. But I found the original loop on my XP computer. It played fine. I copied and pasted the loop onto my Vista laptop and it sounded muffled when played on Windows media player. I found the original Sony loop CD and played it on my laptop and it was also muffled sounding. What I don't understand is why the loop sounded fine when I first played it on my laptop through acidpro7 and now it won't play it properly. That is puzzling to me. Any ideas?
Aug 15, 2010 12:50 am I found the problem. Somehow, someway, one of the settings on my Realtek internal speakers on my laptop was set to "voice compression" instead of "no selection". How this was changed is a mystery to me. And why it only affected that one loop makes no sense either. It must have been something I did through AcidPro7 that I didn't realize I was doing at the time. What a nightmare that was. At least it wasn't something inherent in AcidPro. I'm back to recording again!!
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