Issue:
Two MOTU 896HD units=Stutter on playback. Stutter location intermittent and moves locations.
Root cause:
Who would figure that USB could create issues when a lot of audio equipment sold is USB based?
Intermittant stutter caused by the USB mouse.
Removed the USB and the issue went away.
I am presently converting all my USB midi and USB mouse back to old fasioned direct wire.
I am getting rid of all of the USB equipment.
Equip details below
Computer equipment:
Motherboard: ASUS P4C800-E deluxe
Cpu: Pentium 4 Prescott 800MHZFSB 1MB 2.8Ghz
Ram: 1GB 3200 Geil (2 pieces of 512=1GB)
Storage: (2) Western Digital 120GB SATA 8 MB Cache 7200 RPM (WD1200JD)
Sound card: 896HD#1 896HD#2
DSP card: (3) TC Electronic PCI Powercore
Video Card: BFG Asylum 5600 256MB NVIDEA
DVD/CD Burner: Sony DVD+RW/+R DVD-RW/-R (DRU510A)
Windows XP servicepack 2 home addition with all updates completed.
Computer Setup:
Note: Audio optimized
Disabled all unnecessary windows services
Auto update=Off
System Restore=Off
Best performance of background services
System sounds=Off
No virus scanner
Peace!
Greg Alcorn
Alcorn Studios
Comments
I mainly wrote this to notify you all that USB may be the cause
I mainly wrote this to notify you all that USB may be the cause stutters.
With PS2 mouse everything is perfect.
When using the USB mouse then stutters occur when the mouse is moved.
Basically I plan on shutting down the USB completely.
I have 50' PS2 cables coming this week.
I ordered MOTU MIDI Timepiece AV Parallel.
I have two USB midi ports that will be up for sale soon.
I don't know much, but I do know that the mouse driver has a pre
I don't know much, but I do know that the mouse driver has a pretty high priority interrupt, so if it's using the same USB and hence IRQ as your other USB equipment, it could be interrupting the other functions. Try switching just your mouse back to PS2 and rebooting and then see if that helps.