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Old 03-27-2012, 07:09 AM   #1
Mattbob
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Default Pop and click demise

Ive got a shiny new computer with an echo audiofire4 interface, and a ton of pops and licks on any track I try. Increasing buffer size does not decrease the clicking. 44.1 sample size. I pasted the e-mail I sent to tech support and a copy of the firewire analyzer report. I found a lot of posts on optimizing, and I did them, but this is a new and decent desktop computer and it happens on any track, no plugins, so I'm assuming I have something set up incorrectly.

First name: Matt

Last name: Eich


Phone number:
Email address:

Echo hardware: Audiofire4

Echo driver version number: 5.7.6

Audio software/application: Reaper

Operating system and version: Windows 7

Processor model and clock speed: Intel i5

Motherboard manufacturer: MSI

Motherboard chipset (i.e. Intel, Via, Nvidia):Intel

Other PCI and FireWire devices: Syba firewrie with Texas Instruments chip set

Other audio hardware: None

Description of your problem:

Pops and clicks during playback. Pops occur at same spots during each time it's played back. Increasing buffer size does not decrease pops. Computer is brand new, 8 GB RAM. No real other programs on computer other than antivirus, browser. Followed Echo tutorial for 'optimizing for audio'. Had to rollback to the Windows Legacy to get the device to be recognized. Enabled DMA and each IDE channel. Wireless turned off. Happens even when recording one track with no plugins.

I attached the Firewire Analyzer document to this e-mail.

FireWire Analyzer report
26 Mar 2012 9:21:50am

1394 controller: PCI\VEN_104C&DEV_8025&SUBSYS_00051592&REV_01\5&29C 4D39C&0&0000E2

Sample rate: 44100
Buffer size: 256
Nominal buffer time: 5.805 msec

AudioFire4
ARM code: 5.7.3
FPGA code: 3.0.2

Playback count: 110660
Playback max time: 6.077 msec
Playback average time: 5.812 msec

Record count: 110669
Record max time: 6.034 msec
Record average time: 5.810 msec

ASIO wakeup max time: 0.181 msec
ASIO wakeup average time: 0.041 msec

ASIO host max time: 0.210 msec
ASIO host average time: 0.028 msec

Buffer offset max time: 0.000 msec
Buffer offset min time: 0.000 msec
Buffer offset average time: 0.000 msec

Underruns: 1
Overflows: 0

There was a suggestion on another forum the perhaps Reaper is not slaved to the interface's clock. I've been looking around for how to do this, but being new, maybe there is other terminology used for this process I don't know.

I contacted Echo and they told me to try a different PCI slot.
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