Pinky
and The Brain...
Hello,
I'm experiencing crackling when running more than 4 or 5 VST's simultaneously. I'm using ASIO for all, which affords me the lowest latency and highest buffer settings without a significant delay when tracking guitars (the creative WDM and ASIO drivers drop out/start popping if latency is set too low or buffers set too high). This is on a relatively new AMD 890 (SB850) chipset with a quad core Phenom.
So I'm pretty sure I'm just at the limits of what the X-Fi will be able to handle, since Sonar reports only 30-50% of my CPU is being utilized during recording and playback.
The M-audio 2496 seems to be the cheapest option for someone like me needing only a single stereo input and single stereo output (to my monitors). But is it guaranteed to help?
I also have a particular need with setting up my monitors. I'm using two smaller M-audio speakers (L/R), but also have an Energy sub for those out of range lower frequencies the monitors won't reproduce. It sounds really good! But in order to get output from the sub with a standard analog 2.0 stereo signal I have to run a separate line-out to the sub. Does anyone know exactly what outputs will be available with the m-audio card? I can't simply split, from the stereo output, a single mono signal for input into the sub, I tried that originally and it caused the entire signal to become mono (not sure exactly why this occurred from a techie standpoint, assume it was some sort of short/feedback). Sometimes you can set a LFE via software that assumes 2.1 playback of a 2.0 stereo signal (and use the sub output on a 5.1 card), but that didn't seem to work with the creative card. It always assumes 2.0 is just front left/right. Windows 7 in case you need to know!
I'm experiencing crackling when running more than 4 or 5 VST's simultaneously. I'm using ASIO for all, which affords me the lowest latency and highest buffer settings without a significant delay when tracking guitars (the creative WDM and ASIO drivers drop out/start popping if latency is set too low or buffers set too high). This is on a relatively new AMD 890 (SB850) chipset with a quad core Phenom.
So I'm pretty sure I'm just at the limits of what the X-Fi will be able to handle, since Sonar reports only 30-50% of my CPU is being utilized during recording and playback.
The M-audio 2496 seems to be the cheapest option for someone like me needing only a single stereo input and single stereo output (to my monitors). But is it guaranteed to help?
I also have a particular need with setting up my monitors. I'm using two smaller M-audio speakers (L/R), but also have an Energy sub for those out of range lower frequencies the monitors won't reproduce. It sounds really good! But in order to get output from the sub with a standard analog 2.0 stereo signal I have to run a separate line-out to the sub. Does anyone know exactly what outputs will be available with the m-audio card? I can't simply split, from the stereo output, a single mono signal for input into the sub, I tried that originally and it caused the entire signal to become mono (not sure exactly why this occurred from a techie standpoint, assume it was some sort of short/feedback). Sometimes you can set a LFE via software that assumes 2.1 playback of a 2.0 stereo signal (and use the sub output on a 5.1 card), but that didn't seem to work with the creative card. It always assumes 2.0 is just front left/right. Windows 7 in case you need to know!
