Topic: Sound Playback is skipping, choppy and cutting out

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  • February 1, 2011 at 23:10 #2518
    monicaacp
    Participant

    looking for some help on this. I like the software but I am having problems with sound cutting out every 2nd beat.

    just downloaded the free copy of Podium and after importing new tracks and mixing my new composition I am having issues when I play and listen to the tracks as I work on my master composition. Everytime I press the play button or try to Audition a new sound file (.wav format) the files sound very poor quality and terrible. It sounds like it skips and slows the playback and also sounds a bit choppy almost as though the soudn cuts out repeatedly every 2nd or 3rd beat. The loops and samples that I have are of very good quality and have used them in other programs but for some reason the play back is horrific when I try to mix something on Podium.

    Please help! I don’t know what to do about it. I am using my Realtek Digital audio output speakers.

    February 2, 2011 at 00:06 #20300
    Infinitoar
    Participant

    Never use those on board drivers. I realized myself when starting out those things are terrible with “any” DAW. Use ASIO4ALL and go into Podium’s Audio Preferences and choose ASIO4ALL for your sound driver. When in use if no audio is coming out play with the settings to finally figure out what is not audio’ing out. Also turn the samples in ASIO as HIGH AS YOU CAN GO.[For example mine is set at 2048 but I believe with a better soundcard or system you CAN go higher in the sample rate] 😆 It should solve that problem for audio.

    Also another tip in ASIO: NEVER CHECKBOX “Always resample 41.k to 48k. It will mess up your projects when you render things. Especially if your project is of a different sample rate.

    February 3, 2011 at 10:47 #20302
    druid
    Participant

    I’m not sure exactly what Infinitoar meant, but just to be clear, the 2048 figure they mentioned is a buffer, and generally lower is better (but really, most people do not need to go below 512).

    Personally, I used 192 samples buffer with 96000kHz, then realised I didn’t need it so low, and now have it set to 512. 2048 seems high to me, but I can’t see a problem using it. If you use 44100Hz, it might mean a 2 second delay I think? But if using 96000kHz as I do, even 2048 samples buffer means a delay of a little less than a second.

    Anyway, I think Infinitoar knew that, but the way he said going higher, I felt might confuse, and wanted to clear it up.

    February 3, 2011 at 13:54 #20304
    Infinitoar
    Participant

    In ASIO it says: higher=less lag, less glitch.

    In other words less broken audio. Or crackling audio. If you lower it the more worse your audio gets.

    February 4, 2011 at 03:33 #20305
    monicaacp
    Participant

    Thank you @Infinitoar and @druid. I am just in the middle of midterms as of yesterday so I will definitely try out the suggestions and see if this will clear up the crackling and skipping. I did have a chance later that night to play around with the audio so I will continue to refine the settings.

    Thanks so much again for such a quick response from both of you! I am pleasantly surprised how quickly I got help!

    😀

    Monica

    February 4, 2011 at 10:21 #20307
    druid
    Participant

    @Infinitoar wrote:

    In ASIO it says: higher=less lag, less glitch.

    In other words less broken audio. Or crackling audio. If you lower it the more worse your audio gets.

    Sorry, lower means more responsive. Higher means less audio glitching. In general!

    My confusion was you mentioning “sample rate”, but maybe you meant higher sample rates are possible with higher buffers, due to having more processing time before the output of audio?

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