Need Help with playback in SONAR 4

[Mobius]

Using the SONAR 4 Producer Edition, the problem is when I finish recording a track and playback, there is fluttering/phaser noise which distorts the track. But when I export the recorded track, everything sounds ok. So i tried importing an mp3 track and playback on SONAR and the mp3 track has the fluttering noise. Therefore i Thnk there is something wrong with the playback setting. But I cant seems to get any answer from the help files.

My soundcard is a Realtek High Definition Audio which comes default with the compaq pc. Tried messing with the soundcard settings, but the prob doesnt go away.

Btw my pc is a Pentium D 3GHz with 512mb Ram.

This is irritating as the fluttering noise makes it imposible for me to judge if the track is recorded properly and I cant do any proper mixing.

Anyone knows wht's going on? Thanks

 

[soft]

you mentioned you "exported and everything sounded ok", what did you export to?

 

[Mobius]

^ I just exports it as a wave file and playback using windows media player and it sound ok.

 

[Mobius]

Hmm... i tried adjusting the buffer size and the buffers in the playback queue, the situation improved but there is still an audible "dub dub" noise when I playback. Increased the buffer to the max, the "dub dub" still persists.. Anyone has similar experience or knowledge that can help me out? Thanks .

 

[fibredrive]

a long time ago i experienced the same problem with my creative Live! Soundblaster card. On playback I had the same fluttering noise. I tweaked everything I knew to tweak and nothing worked. I was using some other software tho. anyways i gave up. figured i'd live with it.
then one day i decided to update my soundcard driver software. the problem disappeared. but shortly after that i upgraded my soundcard anyways...

 

[lowjk]

>> My soundcard is a Realtek High Definition Audio

This is the main problem. I do not know if the this soundcard comes with WDM or ASIO drivers; if it does, please select either one of these and the problem should go away.

If WDM or ASIO drivers are not available, try installing this generic ASIO driver (no 100% gurantee that it'll work but it does work with most cards).

http://www.asio4all.com/

And then remember to select this as the soundcard driver for SONAR to use. It appears as "ASIO4ALL v2".

 

[Mobius]

Thanks all for the great advice, will download the ASIO driver ^ when i get back home this evening and hope that it solves the prob, cos no money to get another soundcard.

 

[Mobius]

Thnks alot lowjk, dloaded the ASIO and set it as default driver for Sonar, and all the prob went away! Thanks!!