Hi all,
I’d be grateful for some help. A student has installed Cubase Essentials 5.1.1 on a Windows XP machine, connected to a Lexicon Alpha interface. When he records, an odd, modulated noise is produced, though the waveform looks fine. The odd things are:- 1. Recording with Audacity is fine, and 2. as soon as Cubase is started not only are the recordings unusable but Windows own system sounds are similarly distorted. If he reboots, the system sounds return to normal and decent recordings can be made through Audacity.
He didn’t have a previous soundcard - just the onboard sounds. The weird thing is that it all works fine with Audacity, so that would suggest that the ASIO drivers are working fine - just not in Cubase!
The latency was set quite high originally and I adjusted that to 512 but with no noticeable difference.
Which ASIO driver are you using? 512 samples is still too low, you should be looking at like 2048 samples. What does your external connections setup look like (mics, guitars, MIDI devices, etc.)?
When I think about it how can updating a dongle improve your sound ! nope cant make that one out
but since updating to the latest drivers for my USB dongle that was some time middle of last year, I cant remember
when my cubase glitched or hanged when I close down, befor updating to latest drivers you can guarantee it will hang at least once every two weeks or so.
If and when there is a problem with cubase I will include making sure my dongle has the latest drivers aswell as other formal checks to correct the problem. its a kind of check these first kind of thing ( habit)
and yes your right LOW latency is what you should check.
You didn’t say what kind of equipment is hooked up to the Lexicon Alpha or which driver you are using. Since Audacity supposedly does not use ASIO, I would try a different driver than the one you are using. If you’re not using the ASIO4ALL driver, that would be a good one to try http://asio4all.com/. ASIO doesn’t seem to like your hardware. You would think there would be a simple answer to this question, but in reality there are so many things that can go wrong that it’s ridiculous.
BTW, if you’re using that stupid duplex driver, that would explain your problem.