Hi Idatrod...The Noise is a crackling similar to a popping on a scratched record. It is when i'm recording and its actually in the midi file. I dont think its the speakers cause its not on every file...just a couple so far. Bad board...i hope not but thats scary! The board is still new and the master vol knob is without static. Of course if its a bad flash rom i dont know how i'd diagnose that but thats also scary! Like I said...I called George in my first week of posession of this board and he was less than no help in this matter. I'm probably outside of 45 days now...i'll have to check. But I do thank you for your response....I just wanted to make sure I wasn't doing anything that I wasn't supposed to be doing!! hehe.