Delta 1010 settings

[Superhuman]

Looking for some advice on how best to tweak the settings of my Delta 1010 to optimise performance. I pretty much DI everthing (heavy guitars and bass)and track and mix mostly in Cubase SX3. I also use a bit of midi - power hungry stuff like DFHS and EWS Symphonic Orchestra and Choirs.

Here are the settings I have at the moment:

Master Clock : Internal Xtal
Sample Rate: 4800
DMA Buffer size: Latency 128 samples
MultiTrack Driver Devices: single and in sync

Bass Management: On - volume 0.0dB
(should bass management be on or off??)
Speaker frequency response: 80

Hardware settings baffle me, I like to set something up and then forget about it. Anyone out there think I should make any changes to the above settings?

 

[SRR]

Here are the settings I have at the moment:

Master Clock : Internal Xtal
Sample Rate: 4800
DMA Buffer size: Latency 128 samples
MultiTrack Driver Devices: single and in sync

Bass Management: On - volume 0.0dB
(should bass management be on or off??)
Speaker frequency response: 80

Master Clock : <----this should be internal most of the time, you may need external if you use a digital effects box, or anything with a better digital clock

Sample Rate: <----are you recording for CDs? if so change this to 44.1

DMA Buffer size: <-----lower the better, but only if you DON'T get drop outs/skipping during playback and recording, faster the machine the lower you can go, I am stuck at 384 right now with a Athlon 1.4Ghz box, 128 is most excellant if its not causing problems, start getting drop outs skips, try 256.

MultiTrack Driver Devices: <----this is for adding more then one M-Audio Delta Series card, any thing from the 24/96, 44, 66, 1010LT, 1010, and you need to change this setting (probably would do it automatically for you)

Bass Management: <---turn this OFF, this is for Dolby Digital/DTS playback, or for rare setups that need internal bass management when running a subwoofer that doesn't have the bass management needed, you would then run separate outs to each speaker in your system, 6 outs if its a 5.1 system that you are running

Speaker frequency response: <----won't matter as soon as you turn BM off

 

[Chris.]

Sample Rate: <----are you recording for CDs? if so change this to 44.1

This is as incorrect as saying "If you're recording for cds only record in 16 bit."

 

[SRR]

This is as incorrect as saying "If you're recording for cds only record in 16 bit."

So you have some magic that turns 96K into 44.1 with out losing anything in the process? You opened the door do tell all of us how you do it?

 

[Chris.]

So you have some magic that turns 96K into 44.1 with out losing anything in the process? You opened the door do tell all of us how you do it?

Are you kidding me?

When you mix down to your .wav file at the end of mixing you sample it down to 44.1. Or actually, your mastering engineer does.

 

[SRR]

Chris you have been misguided, there is no magic pixie dust that eliminates sample rate conversion artifacts. Its the truth, I stand by it, ask massive mastering if he has any of this pixie dust, cause I sure don't. If your target sample rate is 44.1 there is no need to use a higher sample rate, unless in the rare occasion you have to go 48K into some "box" (ie effects box) or coming from something digitally that is producing some other then 44.1. You lose info by going from 96k down to 44.1 vs just going 44.1 to start with when your target is CD formatted audio.

You may now piss on yourself cause I am done with the facts....oh and loss of hard drive space is another reason not to go higher then your target.

 

[Chris.]

You may now piss on yourself cause I am done with the facts....oh and loss of hard drive space is another reason not to go higher then your target.

I never said anything about there not being 'losses.' News flash: Music sounds better live in the first place than recorded. Oh noes!

You said that he should "set his sample rate to 44.1" if he's putting it to cd. That's not 100% right. He could set it to 48 or 96 and still go to cd. That is all I was pointing out.

 

[punkin]

Master Clock : <----this should be internal most of the time, you may need external if you use a digital effects box, or anything with a better digital clock

Sample Rate: <----are you recording for CDs? if so change this to 44.1

DMA Buffer size: <-----lower the better, but only if you DON'T get drop outs/skipping during playback and recording, faster the machine the lower you can go, I am stuck at 384 right now with a Athlon 1.4Ghz box, 128 is most excellant if its not causing problems, start getting drop outs skips, try 256.

MultiTrack Driver Devices: <----this is for adding more then one M-Audio Delta Series card, any thing from the 24/96, 44, 66, 1010LT, 1010, and you need to change this setting (probably would do it automatically for you)

Bass Management: <---turn this OFF, this is for Dolby Digital/DTS playback, or for rare setups that need internal bass management when running a subwoofer that doesn't have the bass management needed, you would then run separate outs to each speaker in your system, 6 outs if its a 5.1 system that you are running

Speaker frequency response: <----won't matter as soon as you turn BM off

Same set up here. While I've got the horse power for higher sampling rate, ror what I'm doing, I can't appreciate or perceive the higher rate rewards to justify the big difference in hard drive realestate consumption. I did once have a guy ask me to save a project at a higher sampling rate but then he came back and didn't understand why he couldn't listen to it in his car. I'm betting that most here wouldn't be able to appreciate the differences in audio quality on the gear they have anyways.