Windows 7 recording problems

Street · 18 Feb 2011 at 11:43

I posted the same question in the Sound forum a month or so ago but got no replies so thought I'd post here.

I'm trying to record from my decks to my Windows 7 x64 PC. My PC gets the audio in but when I listen back to it it is very stuttery and jumpy.

I'm using the line in and using Audacity to record. My soundcard is a Creative XFi XtremeMusic with the latest drivers and I've even resorted to reinstalling Windows 7 to see if that sorts the problem. I installed XP to a different hard drive and the recording works perfectly with that so I think it is definitely a W7 problem!

I've read the Native Instruments guide to tweaking W7 for recording and it went on about using programs such as LatencyMon to see my latency. This all came back as bad and told me that it was ntoskrnl that was causing the most problems! Its slightly better at recording if I disable MSE, the network adapater, aero and half the services running but its still too glitchy to listen back to properly.

Anyone got any other ideas?! Otherwise I'll just have to resort to dual booting to XP which I'd rather not have to do..

Thanks!

lurkio · 18 Feb 2011 at 13:23

Due to MS being pressured my music / movie industry windows 7 audio works
completely differently than older versions , so this is most likely what is causing your issue

Xp is your only option sadly , go MS go ... stupid audio protection path for the win ... NOT

Philtor · 18 Feb 2011 at 15:06

Only suggestion I can think of is to try the Daniel K drivers perhaps? When I had my Technics hooked up to the PC a few years back I used Sony Soundforge and had no problems but that was on Windows XP also. So... I would either test the Daniel K drivers or try using Sony Soundforge. Hope this helps.

Street · 18 Feb 2011 at 16:30

philtorrens said:
Only suggestion I can think of is to try the Daniel K drivers perhaps? When I had my Technics hooked up to the PC a few years back I used Sony Soundforge and had no problems but that was on Windows XP also. So... I would either test the Daniel K drivers or try using Sony Soundforge. Hope this helps.

Thanks, I'll give the drivers a go.. I did try SoundForge and CoolEdit but neither of those worked either.

lurkio said:
Xp is your only option sadly , go MS go ... stupid audio protection path for the win ... NOT

It is looking that way.. There are so many problems with audio in W7 when I search around the net!

Philtor · 18 Feb 2011 at 18:15

lurkio said:
Due to MS being pressured my music / movie industry windows 7 audio works completely differently than older versions , so this is most likely what is causing your issue

Surely they cannot interfere with a line input on a Soundcard? I would have thought this is a driver issue if anything.

Tonester007 · 18 Feb 2011 at 21:55

philtorrens said:
Surely they cannot interfere with a line input on a Soundcard? I would have thought this is a driver issue if anything.

The reason it works ok on XP and not Win7 is because of Microsoft's UAA. Starting with Windows Vista, Microsoft required all computer and audio device manufacturers to support Universal Audio Architecture in order to pass Windows Logo.

OP, have a look on here for Win7 audio problems:
http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7music/threads