Hey everyone,

I have a wierd problem that I cant seem to fix.

Before I begin heres my setup so you know what I am running.

G4 1.33 Powerbook Aluminum, 768mb RAM
Cubase LE (tried it with sx 1 too)
Firepod

Heres the problem-

Last week I had my system running sweet no noticeable latency, no drop outs, no clicks, no pops, no HEADACHES.

I had 8 Tracks of audio approx. 5 of them had EQ and reverb on them, then I had NI battery 2 running with each drum sent to its own channel, each channel aHD some type of processing, either eq or verb. Then I had Trilogy running for my bass lines. Also 1 guitar track was running guitar rig.

I was very excited with this since I just got back into audio again after 3 years of not having the time or money. Now i have the time and money so I bought some new stuff.

Anyway,

My Mac was started to slow down a lot since it was packed with a lot of useless stuff and it needed a good pick me up, so I decided to wipe it and do a reinstall.

I figureed a good clean install with minimal apps on it would benefit my audio - unfortunatley this was no the case.

I got home from work and all I wanted to do was play around with this stuff, I plugged everything in and when I go and hit a cell in battery i get a HORRIBLE static noise when I hit any key. Now I was a little ticked off and decided to try a differnt vst i so I fired up trilogy, it worked BEAUTIFUL.

Now Im stumped. So i decied to try a plugin and see what happens. I set a channel with NI guitar rig enabled on it, and I get the same static sound along with a bunch of clicks and pops.

Now Im fuming! I did not know what to do so I called Native instruments and they tell me to change my disk buffers I couldnt really tell a difference.

So basically he couldnt help me. I called up PreSonus they told me its not the firepod its Cubase it needs to be "tweaked" whatever that is supposed to mean.

When I go to VST multitrasck here is what I get

"number of disk buffers=3"
"Disk buffer size=3"
"asio driver=firepod"
"Audio buffer size 192"

When I hit "EXPERT"
"Audio Priority=Very High"
"PreLoad Amount=3 seconds"

Now I know for a fact that before I reinstalled OSX my Audio buffers were set to 128, now it seems no matter what setting I'm on i get static and bad latency.

Anyone know what I can do here, and someone who can explain the whole audio buffer anddisk buffer situation to me because I have never really understood it.

Thanks