Steinway B gives popping noise

[Chino]

I am currently running Gigastudio on Win98, 1Ghz Athlon and 256RAM. 2x20Gb IBM 7200 hard disks. Soundcard used SW1000XG running latest direct X driver (still have a delay, sigh).

The problem I have is that when I use the 1G Steinway B sample, I always get \"poping\" noise here and there. I wonder it has anything to do with my hardisks or my Windows memory management?

Any solutions will be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Chino

[ninriggs]

I too am using a similar system (inc the 1000xg) for giga...the thing that i had problems with was the chipset onthe board...i had awfull latency and popping noises.

Solved by getting a new driver for the XG card and a new mobo


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[Simon Ravn]

Three letters: VIA.

[pendragon]

MMM, I have an Intel 815EP chipset on CUSL-2C and have the same problems, nothing to do with VIA thus.

[pendragon]

Sounds like the whole world is suffering this, me included now. In my simple opinion it hast something to do with a shared interrupt and thus IDE related. For example a Promise ATA controller with 2 HD\'s and a soundcard on the same PCI bridge.

Working it out myself http://www.northernsounds.com/ubb/NonCGI/images/icons/frown.gif

[tomhartman]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size=\"1\" face=\"Verdana, Arial\">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by pendragon:
MMM, I have an Intel 815EP chipset on CUSL-2C and have the same problems, nothing to do with VIA thus.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

I was never able to get the Steinway B to work on my Athlon built by Soundchaser with Gigastudio 160. As soon as the pedal went down, the noises and LOUD pops began.

[Mark_Knecht]

Hi all,
My system Dell P3 500/256MB/both ATA and 1394 audio drives. I use an AP2496 card. Be careful to get it on a good interrupt (9 or 10) or you\'ll get lots of clicks and pops anyway.

I was having exactly the same problem when using the Trachtman 8-layer Steinway-C library. It got much better (but not totally fixed) when I switched to either the pedal up only or pedal down only samples. Switching sample sets based on the sustain pedal seems to be a bit of a problem for GigaSampler.

Last week I added memory and went up to 768MB. No more clicks and pops.

RAM helps a lot. It\'s not a Via problem.

Mark

[This message has been edited by Mark_Knecht (edited 03-06-2002).]