Please Help Me... I am Noob... I just got an M-Audio Delta 44

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This has got to be a really dumb question but.. I need your help... I just installed the M-audio Delta 44 card and noticed that the output goes out in stereo but with the left channel coming out as mono from output 1 and the right channel coming out as mono from output 2. How do I make them both channels come out output 1 as a single stereo output so that I can connect my cheap computer speakers to it with an adapter?
 
You can't! You can get a cable that will let you sum those two outputs to one stereo jack though.
 
isn't that bizarre... then again i guess not... quality sounds usually are split into two separate channels... back to radio shack I go...

On a separate note how come when I play my guitar through an input there seems to be about a 200 ms latency when i hear it come out the speakers... I thought Delta 44 had almost no latency?? Do I have to change one of the settings?
 
In the patchbay/router section of the driver set outputs one and two to Monitor Mixer. Then in the Monitor Mixer tab you can control the balance of your inputs directly plus your wave outputs from your software independently of the settings in that software - i.e. changing the faders in there does not affect the recording level, only what you are hearing in your headphones/monitors.

Make sure you are using the M-Audio ASIO driver in your software too - this will not affect your inputs if you are using the Delta's onboard monitoring as I explained, but it will alter how long it takes the playback to start after you press the play button and so on.

Once you are using the ASIO driver, you control the latency by changing the sample rate and buffer size. If you're recording at 96kHz with a buffer size of 256 samples, you will have a latency of 2.6ms ... anything up to about 12ms is ok for recording vocals, guitars and drums accurately ...

Hope that helps. :)
 
Thanks Noisedude... I hadn't changed my sound card option to asio in the software yet... that made a huge difference. I really appreciate that you took time out to answer my questions... thanks.. peace.
 
No problem at all mate. I hope you enjoy using it! Seriously though, as you learn what's going on under the hood, you will appreciate the monitor mixer in the Delta utility more and more. I have never monitored from my software, and since the direct monitoring is virtually zero, I've never had a latency problem at that side. I still have my buffers small whilst I record so I know I am tracking accurately to the playback pulse, but when you are mixing and applying FX it's pretty much expected to raise your buffers and increase your latency a bit, because it improves your PCs performance so it can concentrate on all the cool sounds you are making! :)

Nik
 
I have this card too. The first thing you need to do is buy a cheap mixer and a decent pair of powered/active monitors.

There is almost no point in buying that Delta-44 and then using a cheap/shoddy monitoring system. You might record better samples, but you will not be able to get them to sound good on any computer other than your own unless you really know how.

This is the equivalent of buying really nice pickups and having no amp, or really really nice drum heads on drums made from cardboard.
 
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