Audio distorted & playing at wrong sample rate?

Cubase
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Hi,

Having a problem with Cubase Ver. 5 where the audio is distorted and playing slow. Hadn’t used Cubase for a month or so and then it started doing this as soon as I opened a session recently. It does it with any session, any sample rate. I tried all the usual stuff up to the point of reinstalling the software but before I do that, I want to see if there are any suggestions. Another interesting thing is that Cubase quits unexpectedly whenever I exit from the Device setup window, and that is something that’s been going on since before this current problem.
Thanks in advance for any help on this!
Harland

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Trash Prefs? Same behavior in a new project?

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Yeah. Once I trashed the prefs it would play properly through the iMac’s soundcard or when I had the ASIO driver set to ProTools Aggregate I/O which routes it through the iMac’s card again, but still not when ASIO is set to Digi 002. Maybe it’s an Avid driver issue?

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Guess not, I just reinstalled the driver and that didn’t help…

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It’s most likely the Digi 002 driver, these things were tied into protools and the asio driver is an afterthought.

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Don’t think so, it was working just fine before and this is a sudden thing. And as I said, I reinstalled the driver (same one as I had been using just to see if it had been corrupted or something) and it’s still doing it.
Any other ideas?

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Could be a corrupt project or even plug-in. Does a new project show the same behavior?

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I sorted this out shortly after my last post on it. Sorry, I should have posted the solution right away.
It’s the buffer size. The Digi 002 only allows 64, 128, 256, 512 & 1024 while Cubase allows you to select other sizes as well. A 44.1 session worked with 128 but when I tried an 88.2 session, it would only work at 1024.

Thanks all for your replies.