Audigy performing better than delta 44

[legionserial]

Audigy performing better than delta 44?

Yeah cos of course that makes sense...

So everything has been going fine with my Delta 44 up until yesterday. Now anything I play back in cubase is not only full of pops and clicks, but mushy sounding. I have tried everything I could think of, adjusting buffer size, adjusting audio priority, changing pci slots etc etc.

Its at the point now where I am getting better quality from my Audigy. lol

Oh yeah and the Audigy is disabled while I am running the M-Audio card.

I have considered reinstalling cubase but I'm not sure what the point would be. It sounds absolutely fine with my Audigy so I'm doubting it will make any difference. Delta 44 sounds fine using Winamp and in fact anything else. It just has issues with Cubase.

I have heard that M-Audio are saying that the Detla 44 needs to be set at IRQ 15 or below. Of course this seems to be impossible, as I am unable to change the IRQ's on anything without changing slots. There are no PCI slots on my computer below IRQ 16 for some reason. I have no idea how to change this. Not that I think this is a solution. Firstly it worked fine before, and secondly it sounds like just an excuse from M-Audio for a glitchy card...

Anyone experienced anything similar or have any suggestions?

Cheers.

PS, just been checking and now its doing it everywhere. just moreso in Cubase..

 

[amra]

I am not sure of the exact wording, but go to your device setup, multitrack setup, and make sure you are using the Delta ASIO Driver....

 

[legionserial]

Lol yeah I know that much. Rebuilt my PC 3 times, even tried putting it in standard PC mode as opposed to ACPI. Got the card down into IRQ 3. Still no luck. Tried all manner of configurations. From running a pc with SP2, to no updating windows at all. Tried every Delta driver. Tried using a lower end GPU, fully updated absolutely everything on my pc from Mobo to hard drives. Every single angle on this one has been exhausted. I think the cards busted. gonna send it back to get looked at this week. If its not busted I guess its just one of those "won't work for no reason" that is so promenant with those pieces of shit we call computers. No biggie. I'll just look for a suitable alternative....

What made me laugh was M-Audio tech supports absolute refusal to accept that the card may be busted for some reason. They seemed to want to blame my pc. Luckily its up to the retailer to deal with the return. And they are pretty damn good. I'm just annoyed that I formatted my pc for what turns out to be no reason. On the good side it means I get to configure myself a far more rock solid system for audio. Which I have been meaning to do for a while.

Tech support were saying my problem was that I was using SATA RAID. I kind of dispute this since it was working for a while before it just suddenly screwed up. It was like I was using Cubase and suddenly the sound went poppy and clicky, and not just that, but garbled. Like as if it was being played on a really crumpled tape. What makes me think its busted is that it has got worse over the last few days. It started off with a few pops and clicks in Cubase. Now even mp3's sound screwed in Winamp etc. One other thing I noticed was it sounded even more fucked listening to an mp3 or whatever whilst burning a CD.

Anyone know anything a about RAID and deltas? I find it hard to beleive there is too much of an issue here.

 

[amra]

Never run a Delta card in a SATA RAID PC, yet. So I can't help you there.
Do you have another PC you can try the card in?

Can you try taking some peripherals out of your main PC one at a time, and test the card each time?

I suppose it is possible that the card just died, but every time I have suspected that some type of card (video, sound, network) just up and died, it is usually something else.

peace
amra

 

[NYMorningstar]

Tech support were saying my problem was that I was using SATA RAID. I kind of dispute this since it was working for a while before it just suddenly screwed up. It was like I was using Cubase and suddenly the sound went poppy and clicky, and not just that, but garbled. Like as if it was being played on a really crumpled tape. What makes me think its busted is that it has got worse over the last few days. It started off with a few pops and clicks in Cubase. Now even mp3's sound screwed in Winamp etc..

Sounds like you have a virus, is that possible?

 

[legionserial]

Thanks for the responses guys

No chance of a virus at all. I have reformatted 3 times. I'm on a fresh install that has seen its first taste of the internet with me writing this post. Apart from windows update. The only things on my pc right now are cubase, battery, and winamp.

As for swapping out peripherals I have done all that. Swapped graphics card for an older one. Ran the machine with only a delta and a vid card, and obviously ram, processor etc lol. I dont have anything else in it anyway, apart fomr the Audigy. I tested if taking that out completely helped, but no luck.

Its the fact that the artifacts and jumblyness of the audio got worse as I went on makes me thing that something is burned out or something. Its like its having trouble staying at the right sample rate. Like, if you lock your sample rate 96khz, and then play a normal 44.1khz mp3, it sounds fucked up as you'd expect, and thats what it sounds like.

Also, on the spdif box which is greyed out as its supposed to be, the radio buttons on it flicker a lot. And for some reason I connect it to the jumbly audio. Its like the anomolies in the audio seem to be somewhat in synch with the flickering...if you get what I mean.