8pre Clicks and Pops Woes

[pure_bordem]

Hi all hope you can help.

I am running Vista 64bit Ultimate with a 8pre with latest firmware and drivers. My computer is a i7 quad core, 12gigs of ram, and a TI chipset.

Now my recording quality is fine coming through the 8pre but I am still getting clicks and pops at high buffer settings, getting worse as I lower the buffer. I checked my computer with the DPC latency thing and it said everything was fine. Ive tried using this with both Samplitude and Fl Studio, both of which are giving me issues. Thoughts?

Thanks!

~Bordem

[AudioGod]

Hi Bordem,

I´m not sure if this will help and perhaps you tested it so far. To me it sounds like a problem with the data flow. This may be caused by different things:
1.
Do you use other Firewire-extenders on the bus where your 8pre is connected to? It may be that other devices steal performance you need for a good sounding result. Try to disconnect all other FW devices and try another recording.
2.
So I don´t know how the general performance distribution is solved by a pc and under Vista/7. What sometimes works is to connect your 8pre to a separate firewire-pci-card (you should ask MOTU which ones are good for you!) and then try it again.
3.
It also can be your harddrive. Whether it is to slow when writing audio data on it (but I think you use a 7200 RPM HD...) If not that could be one reason.
4.
In DP you can go to "Setup - Configure Audio System - Configure Hardware driver". Did you set the "Work priority" to "high"? That should work better.

Now I don´t have further ideas for the moment. Could I help you?

[AudioGod]

One thing, if you wanna use a separate firewire pci card:
Do not take a card fitted with NEC Chips. They will not work! Use those with Texas Instruments or LSI chipsets.

So far, so good