mac1
08-05-2004, 08:26 AM
Well, I'm new here, but looks like we're all kinda in the same boat. I had an Audiomedia III card. I'm running a B&W G3/400 with 512 ram and an external FW 120GB drive. I got this computer and card right after NAB so I could run my brand new Peak 4.11 and the SoundSoap plugin. I had another Audiomedia III running on my Mac 9600/300 AVID MC 1000 but I couldn't get SoundSoap for it.
I got the Peak installed with the AMIII card and all was fine. Weeks went by with no problems. I dicsovered the Mbox, which I had already seen at NAB, and decided to upgrade the AMIII card to the Mbox so I could start using Pro Tools 6.4.
The Mbox came and I put the AMIII card on ebay and never looked back. The quick tests I did with the Mbox and Peak seemed fine. Then I had a real session to do, fortunately a short session. We kept hearing audio pops and short studders. Not often but enough to cause us to stop the session. I was told the fix was to use a higher buffer number of 1024 or 2048. Well, I can get the buffer size to change to 1024 but I still get some pops, but not as many. I've tried to switch to 2048 but as soon as I close the window it reverts to 1024.
I launched Pro Tools and have the same problem. 1024 seems to be the highest buffer size available. I'm beginning to think I souldn't have gotten rid of a perfectly running Audiomedia III card for my Peak. All this because I wanted to try Pro Tools. I imported a stereo file into Pro Tools 6.4 and tried to play it. It played about 20 seconds and stopped. I got a window that read: "CPU useage is holding off USB audio. Remove some plug-ins, delete some tracks, or increase the H/W buffer size in the Playback Engine dialog. (-9136)" Well, I only have two tracks open, I'm not running any plug-ins and the buffer size is at the max 1024.
I've also gone thru the trashing of the pref files mentioned above but still get poping. What I gonna do?
I got the Peak installed with the AMIII card and all was fine. Weeks went by with no problems. I dicsovered the Mbox, which I had already seen at NAB, and decided to upgrade the AMIII card to the Mbox so I could start using Pro Tools 6.4.
The Mbox came and I put the AMIII card on ebay and never looked back. The quick tests I did with the Mbox and Peak seemed fine. Then I had a real session to do, fortunately a short session. We kept hearing audio pops and short studders. Not often but enough to cause us to stop the session. I was told the fix was to use a higher buffer number of 1024 or 2048. Well, I can get the buffer size to change to 1024 but I still get some pops, but not as many. I've tried to switch to 2048 but as soon as I close the window it reverts to 1024.
I launched Pro Tools and have the same problem. 1024 seems to be the highest buffer size available. I'm beginning to think I souldn't have gotten rid of a perfectly running Audiomedia III card for my Peak. All this because I wanted to try Pro Tools. I imported a stereo file into Pro Tools 6.4 and tried to play it. It played about 20 seconds and stopped. I got a window that read: "CPU useage is holding off USB audio. Remove some plug-ins, delete some tracks, or increase the H/W buffer size in the Playback Engine dialog. (-9136)" Well, I only have two tracks open, I'm not running any plug-ins and the buffer size is at the max 1024.
I've also gone thru the trashing of the pref files mentioned above but still get poping. What I gonna do?