Weird gargle sound gets worse and worse until restart in Cubase 4 Essentials

[GibsonLP33stl]

Ok -

so I've got an external soundcard that I'm using to record guitar/vocals/bass onto Cubase 4 Essentials. It was all set up and working fine...for first 10 minutes. During first 10 minutes every now and then the sound i was playing/recording would be gargled/distorted/or briefly dropout. So I kept recording and when I played back the audio it sounded fine with no issues. So the gargle did not record, I just heard it. Oddly enough, the gargling distortion after 10 minutes starts happening more and more until it just goes nuts and becomes very loud when I hit a note and it become unusable. This is even happening when I switch to direct monitoring on the sound card. But as soon as I quit cubase, everything is fine again and the direct monitoring sounds perfectly normal. So I restart cubase and it's fine...but 10 minutes later same thing happens.

This is really annoying - I'd rather not have to restart cubase every 10 minutes during recording sessions.

I think the problem is cubase based b/c I can play directly through my sound card for hour without a problem, but as a start cubase it gets worse and worse until it's unbearable. I can even play in standalone Amp Sims (amplitude 2) for ever and it sounds fine. But do anything in cubase and you have a 10 minute cap of usability before you have to restart.

Has anyone experienced this at all or have any suggestions to try and fix it?

[Electriclight]

Almost everyone has experienced that. It's normal. You have to adjust the latency and buffer size. Go into Devices and then Control Panel. It's always a trade off between lowering latency and increasing stability. Experiment with the settings.

If you can't fix the problem, let us know your interface and your computer specs.

[GibsonLP33stl]

Thanks for the response...I was thinking that since even my direct monitoring from my sound card was acting funny that it wouldn't be the latency and buffering...but I guess it has a hand in everything. I'll try to mess with that at some point this weekend and let you know how it goes.