Constant crackle with USB Sound Blaster 5.1. I'll reward you with cookies if you help

Hey guys,
I got the external USB Sound Blaster X-Fi 5. Surround sound card for Christmas, and I've heard a constant, uninterrupted crackle/popping sound since I've installed it. It's incredibly aggravating. I ran through the FAQ, but most of it wasn't applicable because this isn't an internal sound card.
I'm running Windows 7 with 4 gigs of RAM. I can provide other specs if necessary. I'm about to return this card if I can't figure out the problem, so any help provided would be most appreciated. Thanks!

I am curious to learn, what kind of processor do you use?
I use the same product but I have, afaik, not noticed any crackling or popping, certainly nothing constant.
If you use Winamp, the following tips might not help, but at least I get to mention it. In the preferences, under plug-ins and under Output, one can in the device tab change the eh uh device.
Mine was set to primary sound driver, and I set it to "02 Speaker (Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5. Pro", though I do not think it make any difference. Edit: I see now that there is a message here saying "FAQ 0 "primary sound driver" refers to preferred sound device selected in windows control panel".
Someone mentioned that one could try checking the "create primary buffer" in that same tab.
In the next tab called "Buffering", there is the option to "enable cpu usage control". Not sure what good that is for.
Edit2: If you use Winamp, you might want to try out this DSP plugin "enhancer", only works with win7 with this guys work on it (old plugin allegedly unsupported):
http://www.nunzioweb.com/daz/enhancer/

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I?m having the EXACT SAME problem. I thought it was something isolated, but apparently it isn't.
Sound just "pops" and "shutdowns" at an irregular interval of time, which is extremely annoying. I've noticed that it depends highly on the usage I'm giving the PC at the moment. When it's jsut sitting there plkaying music, it rarely happens. But if I'm browsing the web, with sites heavy on images or working on several tabs at the same time, it turns into a 0 second thing, making music almost unbareable... installing ANYTHING at the same time kills anything, 2-3 second pops and fades.
Before you even suggest it, I have a rather high end PC, phenom II 4 cored PC with 4GBs of RAM and a Caviar Black Hard dri've, so it's NOT that the PC can't handle the load. Its jsut browsing with music in the background... with half decent drivers, a 5 year old Celeron PC should be able to handle that...
I've read those troubleshooting guides over and over, and it's amazing how they suggest to shutdown/disable numerous things tha twill kill performmance in other areas, so we can have a functional audio solution. The only suggestion that makes a lot of sense is IRQ sharing with components, such as video cards/SATA dri'ves. I haven't checked/tried that, because unfortunately I'm not quite sure how/where to change the IRQ values... any help there?

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Hi all,?I have a simple question for anyone who cares to respond. I have purchased Adobe Captivate 2 (formerly Robodemo). I want to add an audio narrati've to my Cap projects. Turns out that Captivate is not compatible with the Realtek sound card that came with my Vaio laptop. As you know, it's a pain to upgrade the sound card on a laptop since everything is embedded in the motherboard. So, I'm going with an external USB sound card.
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Jo kinda covered this but just one thing to keep in mind...
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E68506007
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I wrote a small product review of a Z-series card i regrettably purchased and creative responded. I replied to them and copied+pasted it here. First and foremost please understand this is just an open letter talking about my love for and mostly positive experiences with the Sound Blaster line of cards since the mid-late 1990s.
Attached is an annotated picture of almost all the Creative hardware I've bought over the years.
Take a good long look at that picture. Think about how many songs have been played through those devices, think of how many movies have been heard through those devices, think of how many games made me jump out of my seat from sound effects heard through those devices, and lastly think how many thousands of hours this amounts to.
STOP READING and LOOK at that attached PICTURE.
I use the word 'almost' because it does not include the card I recently purchased off e-bay, which was listed as (and was) mint condition new, and cost me $250.... a Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series card.
If the direction Creative is going to continue to go is the direction that it's been going over the past handful of years this will be the last Creative product myself or anyone i influence or make purchasing decisions for will ever buy. Being in my mid 30s I'd say you'll miss out on at least another 20-30+ years of future product purchases.
Below is my address of your reply to my review of your product in a piece by piece layout:
"Based on user feedback we've done the following:
- Take up less disk space"
I run two 128GB SSDs in a hardware based (LSI Logic 8704ELP) raid-0 array so the disk footprint of drivers and software is important to me but whatever space you reduced your driver to is trivial.
%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Creative\(ALchemy, AudioCS AutoMode Switcher, Console Launcher, Shared Files, ShareDLL,THX Console, Volume Panel)
in total take up about 100MB of space. reducing this means NOTHING because it does not allow for more hefty software (Games or Design/Drafting/3D-Modelling Software) to be installed. Now if say your driver and software had a 1GB footprint and you reduced it to 500MB that would be significant because 500MB is enough space to account for one or 2 of average installation footprints of the products in the Adobe Creative Suite. Reducing the size from 100MB to 25MB/50MB/75MB is moot.
"- Optimized controls for touch screens"
This point is amusing, why? because you are making the same mistake Microsoft made with Windows 8 & Metro. Most people who buy a creative sound card are putting it in a PC and do not have a touchscreen. I don't manage a lot of computers but the ~200 i am responsible for bypassed Windows 8 (maybe even Windows 9, we'll see) and either moved from Windows XP to Windows 7 or they will be staying with Windows 7 for the foreseeable future. The touch centric design of Windows 8 is a significant part of this decision despite all the things Microsoft did that i think are steps forward (like better native support for multiple display devices to name one example).
"- Streamlined the interface so it's easier to navigate (removed "modes" and have all controls available regardless what you want to use the card for)."
Dumbing-down a product to reach a greater audience is walking the fine line of Quality vs. Quantity. Why you've sacrificed significant Quality to increase Quantity i do not know. While I will agree making 1 interface instead of 3 can be a potential step forward you did more than streamlining the user interface- you removed prominent, useful, and important features.
"- Better tie in with the Windows audio sub-system."
Through out the decade the only problems I experienced with Windows and my Creative products i can count on one hand. The first would be when Microsoft abandoned DirectSound and moved to an UAA based audio stack in Vista forward and your company dropped the ball and Daniel_K picked it up and made working drivers for your products and you went after him... I was one of the people who used his working drivers to make your sound card work properly when you failed to do so. Second was the fact that you people charged for ALchemy when the move to Vista occurred... this was truly a sh*ty thing to do. The third was the X-RAM causing a BSOD (STOP 0x50 - PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA) in windows on a regular random basis because of your device drivers and the best working solution was to disable using the X-RAM on the card- a selling point of the cards to begin with (albeit in years prior).
Allow me to elaborate some more while I have time since it's sunday night and the family is busy with other things and will be off to bed thereafter.
Creative's device drivers and software has always been a point of contention. You don't make the install discs available for download on your website for starters. This is a fascist move on your part. Your driver installation procedure and reliability is hit or miss. I personally have not had a lot of trouble with the drivers (only a few hiccups here and there) but i have read on the forums where all sorts of other people have (I'm not in disagreeing that their problems are partially their fault, but that's the price of running Windows instead of buying a Mac). My experience with your driver software suites over the years have been mostly (A) "When it works as expected it's sheer aural bliss beyond that of any other sound card in existence! THIS is why 'Sound Blaster Compatible' was what other companies put on their products, because Creative set the standard for everyone else to meet." but also sometimes (B) "everything installed and worked fine but now something is corrupt and not all the speakers have sound coming from them or the sound is all screwed up and the driver won't uninstall/reinstall/update correctly because it's corrupt and it's not deleting the driver files because windows has the files locked and safe mode isn't helping so now i have to physically remove the card from the PC and try to completely clean out my system of the Creative software. I can't believe they went after Daniel_K the way they did, i wish he'd come back and fix their drivers. Now which box did i put that install cd in...."
There are 2 reasons I've bought Creative sound cards for over a decade now. CMSS 3D when listening to music while working throughout the day and EAX in videogames at night.
I remember the moment when I experienced EAX for the very first time. I was in college and over at a friend's place. He had just got a new game called Thief: The Dark Project. I remember him telling me about something new called EAX and that only Creative cards had it and that it was supposed to be awesome. About an hour later after watching and HEARING him play Thief I was hooked. Creative had secured a place for it's hardware in my budget for every PC i built from that day forward.
Being that I've worked from home for about a decade now I will listen to music while I work and get in an hour or so of gaming at night as time allows. Straight off the bat the first time i ticked that box for CMSS 3D long long ago and heard music coming from every speaker in my home office i was amazed and overwhelmed. Then when you introduced the ability to set the individual speaker distance and volume from the listening position it was the icing on the cake. I was surround by sound. It was SHEER AURAL BLISS. This feature called CMSS 3D would become the second reason I purchased and recommended Creative sound cards for the decade to come.
As i stated in my review, the only reason i bought a new sound card was because the motherboard I was purchasing had no PCI slots (I remember when motherboards stopped having ISA slots as well...). Before making my purchase I read. I read a lot. I read about the changes you made with the X-Fi Titanium HD and then the Recon3D, and the more i read the more a feeling of apprehension began to take hold. Then i got to reading about the Z-series and read about some of the positive changes between it and the Recon3D line of cards and I became a bit more hopeful.
Sadly my apprehension was spot on... Listening to music was a worse experience when compared to my X-Fi Platinum (or even my old Audigy 2)... and did not even come close to justifying the purchase of the card compared to just using the integrated sound capabilities of my motherboard, an ASRock Z87 OC Formula/ac. But none the less I still had EAX to fall back on right? wrong... I installed a couple games, some new and some old, some with EAX and some without, and for about 2 weeks i played a bit of each one to see how the card handled new and old games. Sadly EAX compatibility didn't even matter because it was overshadowed by poor directional audio reproduction... that same front center speaker that was overbearing when listening to music was noticeable when gaming to the point that it was negatively affecting my gaming experience. I tweaked and toggled every setting i could and even uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers and software to try to mitigate this but to my dismay i could not. It was at this point I went weighing my options... and looking for an X-Fi Titanium (NON-HD!) and suffered the capitalist price gouging that occurs in such supply & demand situations... at least i talked the guy down from his original asking price of $300. I bit the bullet on this because chances are this is going to be the last Creative card i ever own...
I've had my Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series installed for just over a week now. Everything sounds precise and as it should when you have a quality piece of hardware paired with quality software. Directional audio in games comes from all speakers appropriately and not excessively from the front center speaker unless it's supposed to. Ambient music floats through the air all through out the day creating that familiar feeling of sheer aural bliss as it did before. The only downside is I'm getting to experience the problems other people have with this card (strange loud static-like warble EMI type noise coming from speakers, unaffected by windows volume control) but I have found a work around that I'm using on the rare occasion this happens (disable the device in device manager, re-enable device in device manager).
Chances are what i've written above is perhaps an opening soliloquy of the requiem for the Creative Sound Blaster, the card that defined an industry and the company that turned it's back on it. I don't expect anything to come from this letter and I don't expect a meaningful reply from you. You'll probably write me justifying your decisions you've made with your product line and offer some false sincerity about how you are happy i am enjoying my price-gouged discontinued soundcard i had to buy off e-bay because your current line of products are not a step back in your eyes because of the profits they turn. This generation of customers who buy your Platinum HD, or Reco3D or Z-series line of cards probably oblivious to what they are missing out on (through no fault of their own), funny how the bliss of ignorance works and lines your pockets...
It saddens me that i had to buy a discontinued product off e-bay because it's a better product than what your company currently offers. I wish this wasn't the way things turned out. When you dropped the fun presets and finite control of the EAX effects during the transition from the Audigy to the X-Fi line of cards I noticed but since they were not the main reason I owned a Creative card I tolerated it. But now you've gone and ruined the features that were the reasons i bought Creative cards, and this I will not oblige.
My Creative Hardware.jpg

@To the OP:
I own a X-Fi Elite Pro for the past 8 years now.
Since there, this card has faithfullly seen me through 3 major PC upgrades.
I'm currently at a point where, very sadly, much of what you've described is also weighing on my decision to not go for a Z line.
@Creative:
I do hope you're listening and can come up with a solution to a simply design feature - namely a fully working Stereo Surround, like the one that was available in the X-Fi line of cards via CMSS-3D.
Regards,

Trouble with my Sound Blaster

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Thank you,
kinzey37

Does your Xtreme Audio card come with the system? Was your driver installed dated - 2007 version 6.0..28? If so it would seem very old. I'm not sure the drivers on the driver download site will work with the card that came with your desktop. Another alternati've you can try is to use daniel k's SB P7X support pack. http://forums.creative.com/creativel...hread.id=39754

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I'm going crazy... My media player occasionally skips a beat when I listen to music, or even when I watch movies... though it's rarely a beat in a movie.
I don't know what to do, no one I've asked have any idea why this happens. I've formatted my computer since I got the card, so it's not a virus, not spyware etc. I've also had problems with missing sound in F.E.A.R when playing with EAX effects etc.
I'm sorry, but I really don't have time to run every possible cause in the FAQ, since it's pretty rare that it skips a beat, and it would simply take ages.
I have tried with reduced or removed hardware acceleration, changed all possible settings in media player etc, no ideas left.
So I hope someone has experienced the same, and has some kind of solution.
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Intel Pentium 4 3.2Ghz/800FSB
ASUS P4P800 (Socket 478)
GeForce 7600 GS
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Running at stock speed.

I have the exact same problem, I think, though I notice it most with videos. I also have a Sound Blaster X-Fi (XtremeGamer) but the same issue happens with my Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS.
By "skip a beat", you mean that the playback skips forward, right? By maybe half a second or so, or a whole second? If so, then yes, I have this problem.
I have an idea for you. You have an Intel Pentium 4. I've isolated this problem with my dual-core Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 to be related to the dynamic switching of threads over to CPU, or the second core. Whenever a video or music is playing on this core, the problem may happen. But if I limit it to CPU0, the problem goes away.
It should be much easier to solve this problem for you. You don't have a true dual-core or dual-CPU system, but it should be recognized as one as a result of the Intel Pentium 4's HyperThreading. So what I suggest to you is to disable hyperthreading. You can do this in the BIOS, and can find more information about how to do it on Google probably. Please try this - I'm VERY interested in knowing if it works for you. Let me know if it does or doesn't or if you need any additional help.

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I'm recording tracts of my band from a MD via line in. How do I monitor what's being recorded (in real time)?
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Thanks,
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my problem seems similar to prior post.
I have attached Creative USB Sound Blaser MP3+ a.k.a. SB0270 to a Compaq Presario 700 lap top computer via its USB .0 port. I'm running WinXP Home with SR-2 update.
I have found that I CAN record audio using Creative's Wave Studio by first selecting "Line-In" in Microsoft's "Volume Control" software Options/Properties/Recording. "Line-In" then appears as the label on the record level control in Creative's Wave Studio. This was not the intuiti've choice as music fed in through a USB port supposedly uses the SPDIF (Sony Phillips Digital Interface Format). Selecting the SPDIF in Microsoft's "volume control" doesn't work.
However, although I can record the audio, I can not find any way to monitor the level of the audio while recording. When recording using Creative's Wave Studio, an indicator (lower left of screen) shows it is in the recording mode, but the level indicator is a straight line at zero / baseline. Furthermore, the input signal can not of been too small to be seen, because the graph shows nearly full modulation on playback.
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USB Sound Blaster C

I bought a new Creative Labs USB Sound Card 24 bit i believe. When i test for voice recording on mic I can playback and hear recording. When try to play music over the microphone and to see if it works I get no music on the recording. I did the hardware test on the new sound card and i'm getting any mic or music. The thing is the mic records just fine just not the music. When i use the mic during the test the volume bar does not move at all like t should. I have wave out checked in my volume options. This worked with my old card. Isn't there supposed to be a what U hear option for sound blaster cards or does the usb sound card not have this on it's I have all of the defaults set to use soundblaster for recording and playback.

Jo kinda covered this but just one thing to keep in mind...
Check what version of USB the card needs and also what version your motherboard supports. If you need say USB2.0 to get full use of a card, and you mobo only supports .0 or . you could just get a PCI card to add some new ones Here's an example:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E68506007
As far as external vs internal... I've heard people say you get better quality from external because you don't have as much electrical interference or something, but I have never had a problem with the sound from internal. I currently own both a SB-Li've!24bit and an Audigy2ZS Plat. (Li've! is in a box now in case I need it for an emergency)

Can someone please help me with a Sound Blaster Live Probl

I have an older sound blaster Li've card. It stopped working so I tried to install new drivers for it. That diddnt work. I tried to let creative labs web sight try to do it automaticly, but it says no creative labs sound device found. So I took a working card, "The same Kind" and put that one in. When I restarted windows, it told me it found new hardware, but it said it diddnt want to install the new drivers that I downloaded because windows diddnt test them yet. I installed them anyway. This card does the same thing the one I took out did. When I play music in winamp I get an error No Sound Device Found. In media player I get windows cannot play this file there may be a problem with a sound of video device. I checked out my video card it seems to be working. I think I may have changed some settings somewhere but I cant seem to find anything myself. I would just upgrade but I'm afraid There might be something else wrong. Anyone can help I would aprecieate it Thanks in advance

mja8784 wrote:
I have an older sound blaster Li've card. It stopped working so I tried to install new drivers for it. That diddnt work. I tried to let creative labs web sight try to do it automaticly, but it says no creative labs?sound device found. So I took a working card, "The same Kind" and put that one in.
When I restarted windows, it told me it found new hardware, but it said it diddnt want to install the new drivers that I downloaded because windows diddnt test them yet. I installed them anyway. This?card does the?same thing the one I took out did. When I play music?in winamp I get an error? No Sound Device Found. In media player I get windows cannot play this file there may be a problem with a sound of video device. I checked out my video card it seems to be working. I think I may have changed some settings somewhere but I cant seem to find anything myself. I would just upgrade but I'm afraid There might be something else wrong. Anyone can help I would aprecieate it Thanks in advance
I would really suggest formatting your harddisk and install the os afresh. If the sound card suddenly stop working, most likely it bode signs of the os having some problem already.

[SOLVED] Audio dropouts with USB sound card

Hi! Recently I bought an external USB sound card (Music Fidelity V-DAC). If I plug in the USB cable the sound device is recognized by Phonon in KDE4 (kdemod).
If I play an audio file in Amarok (or VLC) the audio is indeed redirected to the USB sound card and played correctly. However, if I use my USB mouse, or USB keyboard dropouts are occurring in the audio signal. It seems that other USB devices are interfering with my USB sound card.
More details:
Arch Linux with kernel 2.6.33 and kdemod 4. Phonon backend is Xine. I also tried gstreamer, but this crashes Amarok/
$ cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
HDA Intel at 0xfebfc000 irq 29
1 [default ]: USB-Audio - USB Audio DAC
Burr-Brown from TI USB Audio DAC at usb-0000:00:1d.1-1, full s
$ dmesg | grep Audio
input: Burr-Brown from TI USB Audio DAC as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.2/input/input12
generic-usb 0003:08BB:2706.0003: input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.00 Device [Burr-Brown from TI USB Audio DAC ] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-1/input2
input: Burr-Brown from TI USB Audio DAC as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.2/input/input15
generic-usb 0003:08BB:2706.0005: input,hidraw2: USB HID v1.00 Device [Burr-Brown from TI USB Audio DAC ] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-1/input2
I also tried an Ubuntu (9.10) live CD. Using ALSA or Pulseaudio a clean audio signal without dropouts is produced.
I wonder if someone can help me with this problem, or point me to more information. Thanks!
Last edited by boomerang (2010-04-25 17:47:15)

Thanks for your suggestion. I added the following line to my /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf file:
options snd-usb-audio enable_msi=1
After a reboot the problem still persists. I also tried another suggestion from this forum:
options snd-usb-audio nrpacks=1
This doesn't work either. I tried to change settings in /etc/security/limits.conf, which looks like this:
@audio - rtprio 99
@audio - nice -10
@audio - memlock 250000
The USB sound card doesn't share a IRQ with another USB devices, as can be seen here:
$cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0 CPU1
0: 124157 0 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 2102 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042
8: 182 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc0
9: 523 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
12: 3780 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042
14: 15944 0 IO-APIC-edge ata_piix
15: 5177 0 IO-APIC-edge ata_piix
16: 29001 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb5, firewire_ohci, nvidia
17: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi mmc0
18: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb4
19: 44788 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb3
23: 387 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb2
28: 1608 0 PCI-MSI-edge eth0
29: 932 0 PCI-MSI-edge hda_intel
30: 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge iwl3945
NMI: 0 0 Non-maskable interrupts
LOC: 22401 65060 Local timer interrupts
SPU: 0 0 Spurious interrupts
PMI: 0 0 Performance monitoring interrupts
PND: 0 0 Performance pending work
RES: 89856 104215 Rescheduling interrupts
CAL: 1409 563 Function call interrupts
TLB: 1733 2536 TLB shootdowns
TRM: 0 0 Thermal event interrupts
THR: 0 0 Threshold APIC interrupts
MCE: 0 0 Machine check exceptions
MCP: 2 2 Machine check polls
ERR: 0
MIS: 0
$ lsusb
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c03d Logitech, Inc. M-BT96a Pilot Optical Mouse
[b]Bus 003 Device 003: ID 08bb:2706 Texas Instruments Japan [/b]
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 07ab:fc88 Freecom Technologies
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 05e1:0501 Syntek Semiconductor Co., Ltd DC-1125 Webcam
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c317 Logitech, Inc. Wave Corded Keyboard
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Any other suggestions?
I even tried to disable the internal sound card by blacklisting it:
blacklist snd-hda-intel
.. but still no success
Last edited by boomerang (2010-04-19 20:04:33)

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