babblybobbly
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Hello all, longtime lurker here. I joined because I wanted you guys' opinion on my problem - it's a bit subtle so I don't really know what to google to research it.
So I've used FL studio with a Maya44USB sound card for many years. This allows me to record in multi-track audio from multiple instruments and/or samplers, then apply effects to each individual track.
But as long as I've been using this workflow there's been this weird bug. Whenever I do something in FL like add a virtual instrument, or add an effect to a mixer channel, the master out audio becomes crackly and heavily distorted. Sometimes even just scanning back and forth in the song playlist triggers this bug. To get the audio back to normal, I simply open up the mixer, choose any mixer channel X and change its input source (e.g. if X was previously listening to MAYA's In3, I'll change it to In1, or if X was listening to None, I'll change it to In2 - the specific numbers aren't important, only the fact that it gets changed.)
So you might be able to imagine - I've done this silly workaround zillions of times in my life and learnt to accept it as part of my process.
I always suspected it was because I was using an ancient crappy laptop. But I just upgraded to a pretty powerful new computer and the exact same bug occurs. Just to reiterate: Add a new synth > audio gets fuzzy/horrible > choose any mixer channel and change its input source > everything's OK again.
Does anyone know what might cause such a mess? Have I even explained this annoying idiosyncrasy properly? If not I suppose I can annotate some screenshots or even upload a screencapture...
This is FL 10.0.2 Producer Edition, The old-shape (blue translucent plastic) MAYA44 USB soundcard, Windows7 64-bit, and the bug has occurred on multiple computers.
So I've used FL studio with a Maya44USB sound card for many years. This allows me to record in multi-track audio from multiple instruments and/or samplers, then apply effects to each individual track.
But as long as I've been using this workflow there's been this weird bug. Whenever I do something in FL like add a virtual instrument, or add an effect to a mixer channel, the master out audio becomes crackly and heavily distorted. Sometimes even just scanning back and forth in the song playlist triggers this bug. To get the audio back to normal, I simply open up the mixer, choose any mixer channel X and change its input source (e.g. if X was previously listening to MAYA's In3, I'll change it to In1, or if X was listening to None, I'll change it to In2 - the specific numbers aren't important, only the fact that it gets changed.)
So you might be able to imagine - I've done this silly workaround zillions of times in my life and learnt to accept it as part of my process.
I always suspected it was because I was using an ancient crappy laptop. But I just upgraded to a pretty powerful new computer and the exact same bug occurs. Just to reiterate: Add a new synth > audio gets fuzzy/horrible > choose any mixer channel and change its input source > everything's OK again.
Does anyone know what might cause such a mess? Have I even explained this annoying idiosyncrasy properly? If not I suppose I can annotate some screenshots or even upload a screencapture...
This is FL 10.0.2 Producer Edition, The old-shape (blue translucent plastic) MAYA44 USB soundcard, Windows7 64-bit, and the bug has occurred on multiple computers.