Problem Loading Songs

Help, Support & Bugs
1

Hi all,

Sorry to bother, but I have some (hopefully not hardware related) problem when loading songs.

In general this fantastic piece of software works very fine. I can start creating a new song, use my vsti instruments and all works fine.

The problem is that after I save the song I just created, renoise plays it as if it is running throught some distortion device?

Even if I start renaoise from scratch and just load one of the demo songs first thing, this song souds like hell as its distorted.

I went through the preferences but all looks fine??? Its even stranger as, if i render the song to HD and the click on the wav in renoise = distorted sound, whereas playing the exact same wave in any audioplayer = sounds perfect!

… and this has nothing to do with the levels, nothing is clipping etc.??

Its running on:

IBM R51e
Windows XP (Service Pack2)
1.5 GB ram
1.1 GHz

Thanks for any suggestions & help,

Cheers,

Aylon

2

“distorted sound” may also be caused by sound crackling because of erroneous ASIO/DirectSound configurations: try to fiddle with latency (increasing it), or go to your soundcard ASIO control panel to reduce the buffers size.

since you are using an IBM PC, I think you are using an internal RealTek Audio soundcard, which can indeed be quite cracky.

3

Hi It-Alien,

Thanks for that! How stupid am I? ;o) I played around with it but not enough… now with latency 150 it works fine.

Cheers,

Thorsten

4

150 ms or samples? ms would be way to much. Are you running ASIO or DirectSound? Which Soundcard do you use?
You might also try if enabling/disabling the “use hardware buffers” switch in the DirectSound settings makes any difference.