Kx driver and Sonar 2.2

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The better question is why use a $100 card with a $400 piece of software? If you had the money to get Sonar 2.2, spend some more on a decent soundcard that wasn't designed for games.
 
I found the ASIO4ALL drivers better with the Creative cards. The KX driver can be a bit flakey with some systems and brilliant with others.

Googe the Asio4All site and give them a try. If they don't work they are very easy to uninstall.
 
I thought the Audigy 2 had native support for ASIO. But you can at least use WDM-drivers. They might be just as good. :)
 
I've been using the kxproject drivers on my Audigy 2 without fail. Some issues I do have are:

1. Goofy software mixer interface. I can't for the life of me figure out why the developer didn't stick with standard, descriptive icons and layout for the mixer interface. Not horrible, mind you, just odd.

2. Latency. My latency is around 12-15ms, so if that's too high for you then another card may be worth the investment.

In fact, I'm teetering on the edge of getting the M-Audio Audiophile 2496 and install along with my existing Audigy 2. I do play the latest games, but also want solid audio recording performance and need a MIDI-in interface.

Anyone using both an Audigy card WITH the Audiophile 2496 in the same PC? I've read that it works fine, but wanted confirmation from readers here...
 
Hoodoo said:
Anyone using both an Audigy card WITH the Audiophile 2496 in the same PC? I've read that it works fine, but wanted confirmation from readers here...
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Primary DAW (Audio machine)= Delta 1010LT and SBLive!. Runs fine :)
Secondary DAW (MIDI machine)= Terratec EWX2496 and Audigy. Runs fine :)
As long as you know how to prevent resource conflict, you'll be fine.

Jaymz
 
I've been using the KX drivers with my SBLive and Sonar 2.2 XL for a while now. I can highly recommend them if you want to get low latency out of your SB. My latency is 5.66 ms.

The mixer as Hoodoo said is a bit odd at first and the dsp routing is a bit daunting but with that said, they have a good site and good forum at KX so help and support is easy to find. Once you get used to them they are a great product IMHO and best of all their FREE.
 
groover_jon said:
I've been using the KX drivers with my SBLive and Sonar 2.2 XL for a while now. I can highly recommend them if you want to get low latency out of your SB. My latency is 5.66 ms.

The mixer as Hoodoo said is a bit odd at first and the dsp routing is a bit daunting but with that said, they have a good site and good forum at KX so help and support is easy to find. Once you get used to them they are a great product IMHO and best of all their FREE.
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What are you PC specs. Even with my smokin rig (2.8GHz HT, 1 Gig RAM) I can still only get down to 11ms at best.

Any tricks/tips you can share to get us low-latency-wannabes to 5.66 ms(without a new card)?
 
Hoodoo said:
Any tricks/tips you can share to get us low-latency-wannabes to 5.66 ms(without a new card)?
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The PC-specs doesen't affect the latency. However, it does affect on how many tracks/plugins/instruments you're able to run at low latency (or if the computer will run at all)... ;)

Latency depends on two things:
- A good soundcard
- GOOD DRIVERS!

If you have one but not the other, then... :(



Have you tried the kx-drivers?
 
Yes, I stated earlier in this thread that I HAVE been using the kx drivers. But, the lowest latency I seem to be able to get (on my Audigy 2) is around 11ms.

Another previous post claimed 5.33ms with kx driver on an SB Live card, so I'm trying to see how that was accomplished.

BTW, I'm using FLStudio 4.5.2...
 
Hoodoo said:
Yes, I stated earlier in this thread that I HAVE been using the kx drivers.
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Sorry, my bad.

It's been ages since I've used the kX-drivers. But I think there's a control-panel somewhere where you can set the DMA-buffer size. Setting them to say 128 should help alot.
 
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