First post, Firewire 410/Synth newbie questions

Posted on Sep 06, 2007 11:13 pm
azurechaos
Member Since: Sep 06, 2007

Hi! I'm looking for some help with an issue i've been having for a while now.

My setup:
Dell Latitude d800, 1gb ram
Presonus Firebox
Roland A-37 controller keyboard

I've got a 4pin to 6pin plugged in from my laptop to the firebox, a 1/4" cable going from my main out on the firebox to a guitar amp and then my midi controller hooked up to the firebox as well.

Here's what I'm usually looking at:

Whenever I play my keyboard, pretty frequently the sound glitches/distorts for a moment and then goes back to normal. Sometimes it'll even make a note continue to hang until I hit it again. I actually recorded an mp3 of it distorting so I could post it on here as reference, but I just listened to it, and the distortion didn't record... it sounded fine in the mp3, while when i was actually recording earlier the distortion came in several times.

I've tried a million different buffer settings and the sort, but nothing has seemed to have an effect on the glitching.

I've noticed that when I change the output to my regular laptop speakers, it sounds fine, so it seems that it's a firebox-specific output problem.

Could this be something I'm doing wrong on my end or does it sound like something's wrong with my hardware?

Thanks for any words of wisdom, I appreciate it.

(I just realized I mistakenly called my firebox a firewire 410, doh!)

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