Two Delta 1010's in one PC....

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What do I need to do? One is currently loaded and working fine. I want to add the second one.

Do I need to reload drivers, or will my multitrack software (Sonar) and WinXP see the second card? Will the Delta mixer pick it up?

Do I need a BNC cable for word clock? Is there a way to synch via SPDIF?
 
I'm curious about this myself so I'm giving it a bump.

It seems like there was someone here at HR who was running two 1010's but I can't remember who???

Anyone??
 
I would guess it will just see it in the maudio control panel as another card. Whether or not Sonar will, no idea, probably will. Download the newest driver form maudio though, apparently it finally works when using multiple delta cards.
 
Chuck - I've obviously never done this, so I'll just pass along what I know from reading various things.

There is a guy on the Sonar newsgroup who runs 3 Delta 1010's with Sonar (under Win98 no less). So it most certainly can be done with Sonar.

I believe all the newer Delta drivers are "multiclient," which I understood to mean allows you to use multiple cards.

I would start by simply plugging it in, and see what you get. It certainly shouldn't hurt anything. If you run into specific problems after that, c'mon back and we'll try and diagnose them.
 
That's one frightening thread.

I'm gonna have to bite the bullet and go forward. See if there are any big pitfalls. I will not let this hold me back. If I have to go with a different sound card so be it.

That being said, the single 1010 has been fine for me under both XP and Win2K, with two different PC's and two versions of Sonar.
 
I have run 2 cards under 98se with no problems,you may have to reload the drivers to load some of the secondary dll files that won't load with the single card. You will need to sync them together from the out put of the primary card spdif to the input spdif of the slave card.
XP has been noted to have severe problems with more than 8 inputs. Perhaps only when on 2 different cards.

The Delta can always be sold if you run into problems.
(heck I may even buy it from you)

Tom
 
ChuckU said:
That's one frightening thread.
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Yup, the longest thread in that forums history by far and a damning indictment of M-Audio's driver support. For homerecordists probably not such a big deal (not many homerecordist use more than 8 i/o) but I would not recommend M-Audio soundcards to people setting up studios for a living. Pay the extra and get an Echo, RME etc.
 
Motu has the 24i/o for about $1500 That's what I'm gonna get when I go for the extra channels. I have the 1010 now and it's great. Have heard many problems about multiple cards though.
 
Chuck, it should be pointed out that the SOS thread pertains mostly to folk who use two or more 1010's. Whilst I can understand their anger, there has been a lot of jumping on the bandwaggon.

It looks as though the latest drivers solves the issue anyhow.

But If I was starting from scratch, with no legacy issues, I would probably go for a MOTU.
 
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Chuck, it should be pointed out that the SOS thread pertains mostly to folk who use two or more 1010's.
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It's also a year old.

I would at least try the Delta's first, before investing in anything else.
 
This was a piece of cake! Phone tech support at M-Audio was very helpful.

There are a couple of settings in the software mixer I needed to change and connect the two PCI cards with a coax RCA SPDIF cable.

Two 1010's under XP with the .27 driver from the M-Audio website. I didn't need to uninstall the driver. I should have done this months ago.;)
 
Chuck,
Glad to hear of your success. I enjoy the deltas. It is good to hear that they coexist under winXP. I have kept my win 98se for years because it was so stable (for me) but would like to upgrade at some point to XP (home or pro). It is good to know it works .

Tom
 
Tom,

I had the same issues so stuck with win 98. But a few weeks back I installed win xp leaving win 98. I now have a dual boot system.

Partition Magic was a great help in creating the new primary volume and partitions.

XP is very stable and easy to use when installing drivers etc.

Chuck, well done with the dual 1010 Deltas. Back in business again, eh?
 
FWIW guys, with respect to Cakewalk/Sonar and Windows, I've had an easier time with 2000Pro than 98SE (many, many blue screens of death). However my horrific registry crash occurred under 2000, but I blame the ABIT board with RAID controller.

So far, XP has been trouble free (knock on wood).:rolleyes:
 
No problems here using 2 8ch I/O cards (not M-audio, ST-Audio, but they're supposed to be 90% identical in hardware).

What you need to check first is that your cards don't share an irq with anything else in your system - took me 5 minutes to check every PCI slot, inserted the second card, boot XP and works from the first minute.


Herwig
 
I've been running 2 Deltas under XP for about a year now, but using ASIO. You should know that if you're using the 27 driver with Sonar, then you're using WDM, and you're going to run into track offset / delay issues. This has been well documented.

MAudio fixed this in later Beta releases, but the problem seems to have come back with their latest drivers (36)

The Delta is a good card, but considering the driver issues - and the fact you can do it all with one PCI card instead of 3 on the motu, I'm thinking of switching to the Motu 24 i/o.
 
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