white noise bursts

[deedpartle]

This is difficult to track down because it's very intermittent . It's very dramatic though. I periodically get a white noise burst that is extremely loud during record and I believe play back as well. It reminds me of corrupt data on a drive but it is not repeatable . Never the same place twice. anyone ever run into this one?

Thanks

[tim carter]

I had this problem for a while... can't remember exactly what I did, but, have you updated all of your plugins?

[DigiTechSupt]

You might want to read this thread which has an exhaustive list of various white noise issues and their solutions.

[Howardk]

Originally Posted by deedpartle

This is difficult to track down because it's very intermittent . It's very dramatic though. I periodically get a white noise burst that is extremely loud during record and I believe play back as well. It reminds me of corrupt data on a drive but it is not repeatable . Never the same place twice. anyone ever run into this one?

Thanks

Yes, I have had this problem a number of times over the years.

Once a reseat of the card jumper cables fixed the problem.

Another time I was a particular combination of plugins. . . I forget the details.

Another time there was a problem with my Cards and digi had me send in the core and process cards and replace them all (the computer also would not startup once in awhile when the cards were installed).

On one project it happened frequently when doing a "save copy in" using sessions from a clients LE systemr. . . I never did find the problem that time.

Recently the noise blast came up again, sometimes when consolidating regions. I would hear the blast, but it would not show in the waveform. However using the regenerate waveforms function (region bin menu) would show it.

ProTools remains must more tempermental than I would like. . . I remain on PT 7.4 as my copy of PT 8 gathers dust.

[deedpartle]

It hasn't acted up now for quite some time. Although I still feel it may be hard drive dependent . I've worked on a variety of projects on different drives and it's been well behaved. I did see that I had file sharing on from transferring some files computer to computer. I've had weird things happen with file sharing in the past so I try not to keep it active. I'm going to pretend that was the problem until it acts up again.
Thanks for all the input.

[jfredk]

my first place to look would be your audio interface/hardware failure and not a software problem...run diagnostic on that to make sure there's no intermittent card issues that would make this happen...and is it really white noise or pink noise or digi noise?...there is a difference

J Fred in Nashville

[midnightrambler]

I really think the Digi engineers should be able to incorporate some safety aspect into ProTools, so that should any white noise (or indeed any noise that approaches 0dBFs) is muted automatically, no matter what the cause of the problem is. I'm really surprised there haven't been any legal cases about hearing loss due to white noise bursts. I'm not sure "well it was the Firewire card" is a good enough defence in a court of law.

[Keybeeetsss]

Originally Posted by DigiTechSupt

You might want to read this thread which has an exhaustive list of various white noise issues and their solutions.

DTS has given what is needed... No need to start a whole nother thread Duc'sters...

Thatz what bumps are for...

[laki]

I had this issue today. I had a dust bunny at one of the connector ends of my flexi cable. Cleaned and reseated... Problem gone!

I've also had issues with white noise when using the DSP Cache in PT8.

[BradLyons]

Also be sure to check for hard-drive fragmentation.....that stuff builds up quickly and can also cause white noise and static.