Cubase Automation - Kx drivers

mcqueena

I just started using Cubase SX. I was going to purchase a new sound card, but once I found these drivers my SB0101 was able to produce wonderful music. I am really impressed with the sound quality I can get with this inexpensive card and these drivers. Great work guys!!

The only problem I have is that I get popping and cracking sounds when making any eq, effects or volume changes in Cubase during playback. I didn't notice the problem too much until I started trying to use the automation feature in Cubase, basically scripting out eq, effect, and volume changes ahead throughout the song. When I do the final mixdown to a wave file the final product sounds perfect. It is only during playback. This makes mastering and mixing the song very difficult. Is there a Cubase setting I need to change? Or is it a driver problem? Any help is appreciated.

What I have:
Kx drivers v.3533
SB0102 Soundblaster Live
AMD 1900+ Processor
768MB RAM
Abit KG7-Raid Motherboard
Windows 2000

mcqueena

Probelm solved! This was simple latency issue. I was trying to run at a lower latency then my machine can hadle. When I turned it up to 5ms I was able to run the automation clean with no pops or noises. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get the 2ms latency to work? Has anyone actually accomplished this. If so how?

wilho

There has been discussion about this before, good old pal SAM will help you more than me.

This might be utter nonsense, but anyway... Latency is more related to performance and latencies of PCI than CPU. So your chipset plays big role, and BIOS is your best friend. Lower PCI latencies, Increase PCI latency timer if there's setting for that, from default 32(?) to 96 might be good start. FSB overclocking might help too? One thing to do might be disabling ACPI.

I have don all this with my kt133a board, but I still can't use 2.333ms fully clicker-free. Maybe you're luckier, but that's not so bad.

edit: I'll have to warn you, everything I said about latencies might couse instability or data corruption, as you propably knew.

mcqueena

This is what I did to get 2.33ms with no pops or cracks or anything. I believe this only works in Windows 2000/XP. Go to Control Panel->System->Advanced(tab)->Preformance Options... Then enable "Optimize Preformance for: Background Services". I got this tip from the Steinberg website at the link below. Thanks for the help, and hope this helps someone else. The KX Drivers are awesome!

http://service.steinberg.net/knowled...uling_win2k_xp