Thread: Recording Help!!!

Originally Posted by mikerotten

Hey im currently running a HP Pavilion dv7 laptop with the AMD vision processor 4 GB ram and windows 7- 64 bit ... i have a Tascam US-1641 and Cubase 4 LE (that came with the tascam) and i have Cubase 5.... with both cubase 5 and 4 my audio going in is cracky and poppy.... and then when i got to record something it only last for 7 or so mesures and then stops recording and ( usually) cubase crashes and closes..... some body please help me i just spent $300 on this tascam thing,... i cant let it go to waste!! lol thanks guys!

Have you downloaded the latest drivers and firmware from Tascam?
You probably need to increase your ASIO driver sample buffer. Start at 1024 and see if it works without pops or clicks...if it works fine then move the buffer number down and check again. There will be a point where the pops come back.
Also I've noticed with Win7 the performance is slow with all of the GUI fluff it has now and it will run faster and smoother if you set the performance to "adjust for best performance" in the Control Panel - System - Advanced tab - Performance - check the box "Adjust for best performance".
Because the Tascam is a USB device, you should also go into the Control Panel - System - Device Manager and right click on any USB Root Hubs you have listed there, select Propeties and then go to the Power Management tab and uncheck "Allow computer to turn off device to save power". This will make sure Win7 doesn't ever shut down your USB link inadvertently...
One other thing to check is to use a tool called "DPC checker" It's a free latency check tool to see if your Win7 can keep up with the audio stream.
DPC Latency Checker
Hope that helps!

Just Bought that equipment myself,

I finally got mine working flawlessly, now to learn how to properly record, with all the filters and what not in use.

I found that a laptop is not optimal, Jack told me that as well.

I set up the desktop that I have with win xp, two hdd both on separate cables, all other hardware removed, ethernet card, video card, sound card, all other usb cards, and disabled anything that was not needed to run the desktop. My win xp boots up in 45 seconds.

Not sure about tweaks in win7, but make sure to set for best performance, and allow for better performance of background services.

Hey guys.... thanks for all of your input first of all!!! You helped alot!! well i updated my firmware and drivers for 64 bit.... and i reinstalled cubase and im using cubase 5 now instead.... All of the clicks and pops have seemed to go away..... BUUUTTTT after i get to like the ninth bar cubase stops recording.... freezes for about ehhh... 20-25 seconds pops back up and says i have to many tracks recording... and doesnt save what ive recorded... i am only recording with 1 mono channel.. so therefore i dunno why its saying that... i have set my cpu to best performance as well...

Yeah that sounds like Cubase has somehow run out of drive space or the CPU can't keep up with writing the streaming data off Cubase onto the HDD.
Are you using a separate HDD to record your audio projects onto?
If your audio file path is set on the C: drive with the OS and Cubase you're going to run into collisions...and things like that will happen....it will just stop! Then some standard error message....too much sxxt! to process can't handle it anymore! End of transmission!
If you're using a USB external HDD you might be running into a bandwidth problem with you're other USB devices....you obviously need the Cubase dongle and a mouse??, (you could use the pad)....unplug everything you can and see if it fixes the problem....if it doesn't then you're back to the HDD or CPU!
A friend was using an external USB HDD and laptop with a Lexicon Omega/Cubase Studio and seemed to work fine, not great, but usable until he bought Guitar Rig4!
As soon as he loaded his new Guitar Rig 4 and plugged into a guitar track bammm...started having dropouts....(that GR4 really sucks the juice out of your computer fast).
He has since gotten a new Dell Win7 desktop and after a little tweaking of the OS it seems to work better and he's still using the same external USB HDD. Of course that is with Cubase Studio running in 32bit mode on a 64bit machine (Program Files x86).
Are you running you're Cubase 5 as 64bit or 32bit?
There might be something there that's messed up!

hm..... i put the control panel on the highest latency setting and cubase seems not to be crashing before 20 bars now..... buuuutttt it is a little delayed.... hmmm... just though ide inform you guys,.,.. thx