Terrible sound quality

Hey guys,
I just hooked up my Maschine about 3 hours ago and I'm brand new to all of this so I apologize in advance if some of my questions seem foolish. I have my Maschine hooked up to my HP laptop running windows 7 with a "SoundMAX Integrated Digital HD Audio" sound card (whatever came with the laptop). I also have a pair of Numark NPM5 speakers. I have the speakers plugged into the outlet obviously... I have the two speakers connected to each other... and I also have them connected to the jack where I plug headphones into my laptpop. I have played songs through the speakers from my iPod which sounded fine... videos and mp3's play fine as well.

now I hooked up my Maschine and started playing with the stock sounds. the snares sound good, the hi hats sound nice... but the kicks, toms, and mostly every other sound come out very distorted and grungy sounding. did I not set this up properly, or is there some setting i can adjust to get these sounds back to normal? thanks in advance

-MH

 

you might have to by an external soundcard to improve the quality.

anyway try to increase the buffer size in Maschine's Audio Preferences.

sowari

 

Install asio4all, it'll be better than your soundcard's drivers.

 

This.

www.asio4all.com

ew

 

Same problem I had with my HP laptop. ASIO4ALL should be a good temporary solution until you get a better soundcard/interface.

 

Is there something like this for Mac?

 

Macs already have integrated soundcard with CoreAudio support so you get very low latencies without workarounds.

 

Another reason I hate Macs...