Audiophile 24/96 latency question...

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Newbie here for sure. Just had a question about this card.

I got an Audiophile 24/96 and M-audio Audio Buddy for xmas. I installed the card, and it sounds great.

My problem is this. I use N-track studio (for now). I put a new track, click "live" so I can hear it, and play. There is at LEAST a 0.5 second delay between what I play and what comes out. This is a huge problem for guitar obviously, and im sure with any other instrument. I plugged in a mic and it has the same latency problem. I went into options and looked at the buffer settings, but I really have no idea what I'm doing. The audiophile card was set at Latency 256 samples. I tried from 64 up to 512. All had the same delay problems. I randomly fooled around with the N-track latency, and the same problems happened. The card doesnt seem to have any latency on the monitor, but it wont do me any good if I cant hear what I am playing real time. What is the problem, and how do i fix it? Thanks in advance.

EDIT: Can someone also recommend settings for N-track? 44hz? 96hz? 96 didn't seem to work. Just some quick settings would be great.
 
hmmmm

Sorry, I don't know but I'm really interested to find out b/c I'm looking to buy a an M-Audio sound card and the Omni I/O unit. The Audiophile was one that I was looking at. That card won the award for "best sound card" so I doubt it's the sound card. How "juiced up is your computer"? You know, how much RAM do you have and what kind of processor?
 
Huh

Then I bet it's not the computer. Are there any cheap parts of your chain? If not then, I'm guessing it's something in your settings (which would be good news since it doesn't cost you any money to fix). But really, I don't know. I'm just kind of getting more into this although I have some experience with recording live shows in multitrack form to a PC.
 
You need to use the WDM driver not ASIO or , what's the other name, can't think of it now. After you set the buffers to 64 buffers you might need to re-profile the card in N-track, so it picks up the buffer change. I am not sure if N-track does this but Sonar has this feature.

Look for an internal setting in N-track to match the M-Audio driver buffer setting of 64.

I ended up just monitoring the recorded tracks in my headphone and passing the live feed from my vocal to my headphones too as I was recording. Latency becomes a non-issue this way.
 
Middleman said:
You need to use the WDM driver not ASIO or , what's the other name, can't think of it now. After you set the buffers to 64 buffers you might need to re-profile the card in N-track, so it picks up the buffer change. I am not sure if N-track does this but Sonar has this feature.

Look for an internal setting in N-track to match the M-Audio driver buffer setting of 64.

I ended up just monitoring the recorded tracks in my headphone and passing the live feed from my vocal to my headphones too as I was recording. Latency becomes a non-issue this way.
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How do i change to teh WDM driver?

I WOULD use headphones, but I am playing a guitar, and I want to hear the wet signal. If not, I can not hear what kind of gain I am playing with and it makes things harder.

I also am using a few radioshack cupplers which might be slowing things down a tad. Anyone know a place where I can get some high quality cables? I need a 2 Male RCA's to a Male stereo 1/4inch, as well as some other things.
 
PROBLEM FIXED!

This works GREAT now. I changed to Cubase since N-track was freezing up on me. Cubase had the same problem, but I went into Options, System, Set up Audio, and then select driver. I could do ASIO Direct X, ASIO Multimedia, and M Audio Delta ASIO.

I picked M Audio Delta ASIO and it works great! Thanks guys.
 
Last question...

When I load up the Amplitube VST thing, it works fine. Sometimes if the gain gets to high, Cubase (and n-track) just stop working. Is that like self protection or something? It just starts making clicking noises and doesnt have any input. Whats the deal?

EDIT: Only the very clean Amplitube settings work now. Whats goin on? They used to all work fine...
 
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