Garble sound from Audiophile 2496

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I'm posting this in the sonar forum because it was in SOnar 3 that the problem began. In the middle of working on a project, suddenly I only got a sound that could be described as a slow, underwater, garble sound coming through my speakers that are attached to my Audiophile 2496. I had the .36 drivers so I reverted back to the previous set of drivers and that seemed to cure it, for one day. Today, not only am I seeing that problem in Sonar 3.1.1 but I cannot even play back an mp3 in Media Player without out that horrible sound, the music even seems to be slowed down as well. Has my gear gone bad (i hope not, it is only 2 months old), or is there something else screwy?
 
one reason I could think of its corrupted AUD.INI

one suggestion is to delete that file and restart Sonar and do wave profiler....
 
Did you use the Delta uninstaller to remove the .36 drivers before reverting back?

Is there another sound card in the system?

Do you have any other programs the use the sound card? What's happening with them?
 
No, i didn't use the delta uninstaller. (is that on the cd?) I went into the hardware dialog box in windows xp and clicked the roll back driver option. Is this were the problem could be? And if so, why did it do it with the .36 drivers that I have been using since the beginning.

There is a audigy 2 platinum in the system for soundfonts but the two cards have got along since I bought the 2496 2 months ago.

About the other programs, media player is garbled and when I log onto MSN, the modem connection sounds from the speakers is garbled as well.
 
Sure sounds like it's a driver related problem to me.

Not totally sure about the rollback feature in WinXp - but M-Audio has always recommended completely uninstalling any old drivers before installing new ones. It's certainly worth a try.

You get the uninstaller file when you download the drivers from M-Audio ( http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=support.drivers ). One of the files in the .zip or .exe file should be titled "DeltaUninstaller" or something similar. Run that first. Then reboot and you should get a message that Windows has found new hardware. Pop the new drivers in your floppy drive and Windows will install them.

I would try the .36 drivers first. If that doesn't clear up the problem, run the uninstaller again and try the .27 drivers.
 
Try setting the DMA buffers to a higher value.
 
dmbpettit said:
I'm posting this in the sonar forum because it was in SOnar 3 that the problem began. In the middle of working on a project, suddenly I only got a sound that could be described as a slow, underwater, garble sound coming through my speakers that are attached to my Audiophile 2496. I had the .36 drivers so I reverted back to the previous set of drivers and that seemed to cure it, for one day. Today, not only am I seeing that problem in Sonar 3.1.1 but I cannot even play back an mp3 in Media Player without out that horrible sound, the music even seems to be slowed down as well. Has my gear gone bad (i hope not, it is only 2 months old), or is there something else screwy?
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You don't say which drivers your are using (ASIO or WDM). Sonar can use either one.

Which one is it?
 
I would switch to ASIO. They gave me a significant performance increase over WDM in HS2004XL.
 
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