Bursts Of Noise, Noise bursts Options

[Jaysee]

Now that I've got most of my setup er....set up, I'm bothered by sudden loud bursts lasting a second or more of what sounds like white or pink noise; usually if I'm tinkering with any soft synth eg NI absynth or B4 in standalone mode. its quite loud, and I'm worried that something is maybe charging up for a while then discharging with that burst of noise(I know next to nothing about electronics so am a bit at sea with this.)
any ideas folks?

[Nels]

In my case ..and I think in Jaysee's case too, the noise just happens at any given moment and for no apparent reason.

While just reading, with hands off my workstation, I'll hear that distinctive pop all of a sudden. It's almost as if, as Jaysee described, there's a timely build up of static or something that needs to discharge itself, thus the scratchy/popping noise and the levels shooting upward for that split second.

Been doing some searching around, but haven't found any answers yet. You'd think there'd be some enlightenment on Motu's site or forums, but nothing that I've come across yet. ...Seems a pretty common occurrence.

And strange that it's happening to Jaysee, who has a totally different setup, ...not using the 828mkII.

I realize the three of us that have posted here so far are all using DP 4.12, but I seem to recall a couple of times where I had the 828mkII running without DP 4.12, ...so I'd have to rule DP 4.12 out as being the culprit. ..Mmmmm, would seem to suggest that all soundcards have the same infamous burst of noise.

Now, this will haunt my brain until solved.



This post has been edited by Nels: Sun 27 Feb 2005, 07:44