UR-80 + Sonar 3 Producer Help please!

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I recently bought a UR-80 with the control surface in mind but liked the idea of being able to use it as an audio interface too. Trouble is, Sonar doesn't seem to recognise the UR-80's WDM or Asio drivers leaving me with what I think are the MME drivers with huge letencies. I've ran Wave profiler and un-installed and re-installed the drivers fro the UR-80. Curiously, when Wave profiler profiles the unit it says that all sample rates are unavailable apart from 44.1 Khz (it says 'ok' for that one). The options Sonar presents me with is 'Edirol UR-80 Wave' as an audio input (L/R/Stereo I in one 1 out).
I'm also using Project 5 and that has no issues with the UR-80. In the audio options dialogue it lists Edirol UR-80 (WDM), Asio (left), MME and Direct sound driver options. The WDM drivers in Project 5 allow me latencies under 10 msecs (although anything too low pushes the CPU a fair bit I think due to USB bandwidth). All sample rates are available too. The Asio drivers work well also. So I'm stumped, why does Sonar not see the drivers yet Project5 does? I'm using the latest WDM and Asio drivers downloaded from the Edirol site and I'm using version 3.1.1 of Sonar 3 Producer. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

P.4 2.4 Ghz
1024 Meg Ram


Phil.
 
Strange! Are you using the newest drivers avaiable?

Have you tried deleting the aud.ini and starting Sonar again?
 
Okay, sounds stupid, but what windows? XP, ME, or 98SE?

;)
Jaymz
 
Moskus, James thanks for replying. As well as contacting the good people on this forum I dropped a line to Cakewalk tech as well. What I didn't mention (and should have)was that I also have an audigy 2 installed. Andy Maddock, Cakewalk Tech guy, told me to remove the Audigy from the driver options menu and re-profile the UR-80. Result = sucesss!!! I can use the UR-80 right down to 2 milsecs using the WDM drivers (although it's a bit hard on the CPU so safer upwards of 8/10 milisecs). Brilliant stuff and the sound quality is suprisingly good (in and out). The control surface is also very good with a neat trick of not altering the fader settings in Sonar until you reach the previous values (when you switch track banks). From what I've read it's only Sonar that does this, Logic and Cubase don't respond in the same way. Still, quite why Project 5 picked up on the drivers and not Sonar is still a bit strange. Mr Maddock, however, says that both use very different audio engines and this can explain it.


Cheers


Phil
 
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