Audiophile USB & Sonar 1.0.2

[MikeA]

I ended up having to select the option that said "Always use MME drivers..." under Options|Audio in order to get sound in and recorded. But I thought I read in another thread on this board that selecting that option would lead to latency issues so I would like to get this going in a manner that those won't be problematic.
Also, after making the changes that were suggested I reprofiled the Audiophile and Sonar saw it as a 1 in/1 out card. Yet when I went to choose from which input the signal was received, the Left & Right inputs were available and the Stereo input was available. Originally it had said that the Audiophile was a 2 in/2 out card which I would agree with. Anybody got any ideas on this? Is it worth fooling with?

 

[dachay2tnr]

Using MME drivers will likely give you a higher latency than WDM drivers would. That may, or may not be a problem.

Whether it's a latency "issue" really depends on what you are doing. Are you using Input Monitoring? Or recording live midi? If not, the higher latency should not create any problems.

If you want to go back to WDM drivers, you are going to need to resolve the conflict that exists with your onboard sound card. One of your two cards does not appear to have WDM drivers available for it. What OS are you running?

As for ins and outs, a stereo input is consider 2 inputs, since it will take 2 mono sources simultaneously (a left channel source and a right channel source). Based on your description it sounds like you are getting exactly what you should be getting (L, R, and stereo).

 

[MikeA]

I'm not, and don't forsee doing any MIDI stuff. Once I get this cassette situation cleared up I will be using the stereo outputs from a mixer to record a church service onto the hard drive.
How do I set the system up to use Input Monitoring? I will need to do that at some point.
I would really rather be running the WDM drivers. I'm running XP Home and the sound card on the Dell motherboard is a SoundMax. Would there be a problem in just uninstalling the drivers for it? I don't care about system sounds.
Concerning the input, the Audiophile was originally profiled as a 2in/2out card; It was just when I reprofiled it after making the changes on the Options|Audio page that it was seen as 1in/1out.
I just thought that was weird...

Why can't we just have nice things that work????