darthstephen.
darthstephenhello
i’m trying out podium on my laptop with asio4all. pretty nice program. my question is sort of strange. why do i get a feedback loop type tone from my monitor when i have no microphone plugged into the laptop? when i plug a mic in the tone goes away… no other onboard mic on the laptop and i have not experienced this with ableton live when enabling monitoring. it’s strange and i wonder if i am doing something wrong in the routing. i have just used the quick setup to start the project…
thanks
stephen
darthstephenhi again
alittle more info. seems that the buzzing tone goes away after a few minutes, followed by what sounds like clearly audible interference from the hard drive spinning. happens with the windows drivers as well.. i use quite a few audio apps and have never heard this sort of strange interference from the hard drive. also, podium crashes when i change the input sound driver before the output driver. i don’t think anyone else is having these problems and otherwise my hardware and software are in good shape, so i guess i’m kind of stuck…
stephen
Podianerhm… sounds weird.. 🙄
Try to disable the input mapping on your track (x). Does the feedback go away?
darthstephenokay, so i guess the meters in podium are alittle more sensitive than other apps i’ve been using. it does seem as though i am getting some audio crackling in the channel from the hard drive though, which is confusing as i have not heard this before. i’m talking -40 db or less, so i don’t know if that’s a problem or not. do you think apps gate at these levels and podium does not. also, feel free to call me crazy:)
none of this explains the buzzing tone when the project is started and the monitor is turned on, which does disappear in about thirty seconds.
stephen
darthstephen@Podianer wrote:
hm… sounds weird.. 🙄
Try to disable the input mapping on your track (x). Does the feedback go away?
yes that stops it. but i don’t have anything plugged into the input…so i guess i’m confused…
PodianerI had a similar problem not long ago. I am using a notebook, too. I heard all the sounds that my harddrive produced. I have a USB audio interface and of course my internal soundcard. I tried some changes in the volume application (the windows standard one; here you have to switch to the settings for recording) and then the “amplified” noise was gone.
darthstephen@Podianer wrote:
I had a similar problem not long ago. I am using a notebook, too. I heard all the sounds that my harddrive produced. I have a USB audio interface and of course my internal soundcard. I tried some changes in the volume application (the windows standard one; here you have to switch to the settings for recording) and then the “amplified” noise was gone.
whooo…
i changed from the mic input to the stereo mix input in the windows mixer, opened podium, started a project, turned on monitoring and she went nuttso!!!. superfeedback. again nothing plugged into the input and a silent computer, as far as the windows stereo mixer input is concerned. so strange.
Podianerwhat do you mean by “turn on monitoring”? Do you mean the “power button” at the bottom left? Or do you mean a track mapped with an input mapping?
As I said above, try to disable the input mapping and see if the noise is still there.
darthstephenunchecking the microphone boost in the windows recording mixer stops all my problems. that’s cool, but why is podium the only audio app i’ve tried with this problem? how is it different?
thanks for the help and i will keep experimenting with the program.
stephen
PodianerPerhaps you have accidently switched on the boost in the meanwhile. Podium should react to your input as every other host.
Keep trying to get to grips with Podium! You soon will realize how flexible the engine is, and how well the interface works with one screen!
darthstephen@Podianer wrote:
Perhaps you have accidently switched on the boost in the meanwhile. Podium should react to your input as every other host.
Keep trying to get to grips with Podium! You soon will realize how flexible the engine is, and how well the interface works with one screen!
definitely…
i’m nit-picking about the onboard audio thing anyway, because i’ve got a couple of firewire units and i’ll most likely never use the ac97 junker.
i just thought it was interesting.
hmm…audacity does it too. i should have named this thread “getting to know your computer.”
stephen
PodianerI’m glad you worked it out then… 😛
Have fun with Podium!!
ZynewaveHi Stephen, and welcome to the forum.
@darthstephen wrote:
also, podium crashes when i change the input sound driver before the output driver.
I could not reproduce this bug. Could you be more specific about how you provoke the crash?
Zynewaveunchecking the microphone boost in the windows recording mixer stops all my problems.
I’m guessing, but it could be internal noise interference that is picked up by the microphone input circuit, even though you have no microphone connected.
darthstephen@Zynewave wrote:
Hi Stephen, and welcome to the forum.
@darthstephen wrote:
also, podium crashes when i change the input sound driver before the output driver.
I could not reproduce this bug. Could you be more specific about how you provoke the crash?
i could not reproduce this after reboot…no bug.