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General Discussion / Re: Timing and hardware
My solution turned out to be a new sound card.  I went with a Creative X-Mod, a usb solution.  Player works fine now.

Thanks to Lawrie for your help, and to Admin.  In the process I updated to c from b version of NWC and reduced my CPU usage from about 50% to 5%.  A nice side benefit.

Thanks again.
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General Discussion / Re: Timing and hardware
OK, Lawrie, I will find out about the driver.  Apparently the Sigma Tel Audio is the soundcard that came built into my Core 2 Duo mother board.  My last P4 pc had SoundMax built in and worked fine, no "hesitation".

I'm just using NWC to create skeleton drum tracks for my songs.  I don't really care about the soundfont quality cuz all I'm doing with them is practicing at home to the drums then recording guitars, bass, keys, vox and drums as audio tracks at a commercial studio. 

I'm not really asking much of this simple card, just keep the beat like the old pc, you know? 

Eventually I will get a notebook dedicated to recording and I'll get a pro-Tools M-Box or whatever to do what I need, but for now I was hoping not to have to upgrade my card.

Luckily I still have my old pc and can fire it up to play my drum tracks.  Seems like a shame to have to have it taking up space just for this one function my new system can't handle.  Grrr!
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General Discussion / Re: Timing and hardware
Har!  Thassa good one, Robden.  You make me laugh, perhaps because tears will not come.

OK, Lawrie, here goes.

Q:  Which OS are you running on the new PC? 

A:  XP

Q:  Do you have the most recent drivers for your sound card(s) and the OS installed?

A:  Don't know.  Just got this pc new last week from the same guy who has built all my pc's and they've always been fine so I'm gonna guess yes.

Q:  Which synth are you using?

A:  Control panel says "Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth

Q:  Is it a softsynth or a hardware one?

A:  Guessing soft, since no hardware is connected to pc.

Q:  Are you using the default "MIDI Mapper" in which case you'll need to check which synth is asigned in Control Panel?

A:  I think I answered this in the "which synth are you using" question, but if not, control panel also mentions Sigma Tel Audio 1 several times under the Audio, Voice and Hardware tabs, if that helps.

Thank you very much for taking the time to help me with this.  And please don't let Robden get you down with his witty quips.  I may not have expected the Spanish Inquisition, but I welcome it!
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General Discussion / Re: Timing and hardware
Hi Folks,

New member, first post.

I use NWC to create drum tracks.  On my old P4 pc it worked flawlessly.  Now with my new Core 2 Duo, I am experiencing the hesitation problem mentioned here.

I've been gessing it's some kind of clocking problem with the dual processor, since I never upgraded either soundcard.

Any ideas?  Thank you!