delta 66 problems, audigy?

[fatemonkey]

About four years ago in much naiveté I bought an M-Audio Delta 66 just to find out that none of the software i owned supported 24b/96k recording. Well, I was very frustrated...and due to the fact that i had blown my money on the card and couldn't afford the software i was stuck.

Well, if we fast-forward to the present day, I've built my own computer (the past was a family comp) and because I'm studying digital film I invested in Adobe Video collection that which bundled with Audition. GREAT! I thought, now I can move my card over to my new XP machine, well, I checked out the data on the newest drivers…and I’m told they are extremely poorly written. Many people evidently experienced problems with these drivers and haven’t yet resolved them.

I’m currently living in a dorm room and I don’t have the space for a preamp or a mixer and the soundcard (integrated) on my motherboard is sub-par. I do some gaming and will probably get into some surround sound mixing, I was wondering for recording vocals and amps straight from a mic, and synthesizers and amp line out, would an Audigy 2 serve my purposes? Could I get the Delta working? What would I need in terms of a preamp to use a mic with the delta? I really want to get this working!

Also, what do you guys think of Audition?

 

[Lend27]

I am running a Delta 66 with Adobe Audition and it works fine.
I am running Win2K. I also have the Omni breakout box, but that shouldnt make a difference in your being able to run it.

Len

 

[christiaan]

I checked out the data on the newest drivers…and I’m told they are extremely poorly written. Many people evidently experienced problems with these drivers and haven’t yet resolved them.

But have you actually TRIED it??
M-audio soundcards work just fine for me (I have used both the Audiophile and Delta 410 under XP) and with me a lot of other people. There have been and probably still are some issues when using more than one Delta card simultaneously in one computer with Win2000/XP but apart from that, there are dozens of happy M-audio users on this board, just because the cards serve us well.

Just stick that Delta 66 in your PC and forget about the Audigy 2.

 

[TexRoadkill]

You don't HAVE to record at 24/96. That's just the max that the card supports. It will work fine with apps that only record at 16/44.

Plug the damn thing in and stop worrying about it.

 

[fatemonkey]

At the time the card was first released, it only recorded at 24, it could be set to 44 khz, but the bits remained locked. I studied the software and documentation, but the original release didn't have a bit setting and couldn't be dropped down.

I suppose i could be mistaken, but i'm pretty sure that's the way the orignal drivers were set up.

I'll try it, what kind of preamp will i need to record from a microphone, i'm sorry but i don't know much about microphones, are there any that generate a line level output that wouldn't require a preamp?

thanks

 

[Bulls Hit]

You could get the 2 -channel M Audio Audiobuddy for $85 or a Yamaha MG10/2 mixer with 4 pres for $99