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Windows 2000 for music
Posted 1:41 PM, Thursday, May 3, 2001 by Graeme Bennett. Comments (0)
Good news for audio enthusiasts looking for a more reliable PC-based recording system. We've been receiving reports that Microsoft's recently revised Windows 2000 WDM (Windows Driver Model) specification is finally starting to lead to music application performance that doesn't suck. Here's a recent reader report, from Yrjö Fager of Finland:
I thought you might be interested in my setup with Windows 2000 and Cubase VST 5.0. The computer is an Athlon-C 1200MHz with 256 megs of RAM, ABIT KT7A-100 RAID motherboard and IBM Deskstar 75GXP 45 GB hard drive.
Yesterday, I dumped my Terratec EWS64 XL, having had the exact same problems that you described. As a "replacement", I bought an RME DIGI96/8 PST audio card, and I'm having absolutely no problems with it. The card is just magnificent! I'm using ASIO drivers for it, and it works with absolutely no glitches with 5ms latency. (256 samples buffer, 48kHz sampling rate) I believe the card would do 2.5ms just fine, if it was set to 96kHz. (at least they said so on the RME web site, although I haven't tried it out yet)
When I had both cards in the machine, the best I could get was 10ms! Based on the FAQs and documentation on the RME web site, I figured out that I had too many devices hogging my IRQ resources... Apparently all of them weren't doing IRQ sharing so nicely.
Removing the EWS freed two IRQs, and I also disabled the ACPI support, and set Win2k to optimize its process timing for background processes, as suggested on the RME web site. After those "adjustments", I just couldn't get a single glitch!
For MIDI stuff, I have the Midiman MIDISport 2x2 USB with WDM drivers, and it works like a dream, too!
So it is very much possible to get Windows 2000 to perform well in pro audio applications, given you have the right hardware.
and if you don't know, now you know...
Posted 1:41 PM, Thursday, May 3, 2001 by Graeme Bennett. Comments (0)
Good news for audio enthusiasts looking for a more reliable PC-based recording system. We've been receiving reports that Microsoft's recently revised Windows 2000 WDM (Windows Driver Model) specification is finally starting to lead to music application performance that doesn't suck. Here's a recent reader report, from Yrjö Fager of Finland:
I thought you might be interested in my setup with Windows 2000 and Cubase VST 5.0. The computer is an Athlon-C 1200MHz with 256 megs of RAM, ABIT KT7A-100 RAID motherboard and IBM Deskstar 75GXP 45 GB hard drive.
Yesterday, I dumped my Terratec EWS64 XL, having had the exact same problems that you described. As a "replacement", I bought an RME DIGI96/8 PST audio card, and I'm having absolutely no problems with it. The card is just magnificent! I'm using ASIO drivers for it, and it works with absolutely no glitches with 5ms latency. (256 samples buffer, 48kHz sampling rate) I believe the card would do 2.5ms just fine, if it was set to 96kHz. (at least they said so on the RME web site, although I haven't tried it out yet)
When I had both cards in the machine, the best I could get was 10ms! Based on the FAQs and documentation on the RME web site, I figured out that I had too many devices hogging my IRQ resources... Apparently all of them weren't doing IRQ sharing so nicely.
Removing the EWS freed two IRQs, and I also disabled the ACPI support, and set Win2k to optimize its process timing for background processes, as suggested on the RME web site. After those "adjustments", I just couldn't get a single glitch!
For MIDI stuff, I have the Midiman MIDISport 2x2 USB with WDM drivers, and it works like a dream, too!
So it is very much possible to get Windows 2000 to perform well in pro audio applications, given you have the right hardware.
and if you don't know, now you know...