WDM Audio problem

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Has anyone experienced any weird audio playback/recording problems using WDM drivers? When I use standard MME drivers, everything sounds fine, but as soon as I switch to WDM drivers, all audio sounds as if it's playing at about 70% of it's original speed. FYI, my system specs are :

WindowsXP
AMD Tbird 1.133
512 megs DDR
30 gig 7200 RPM HD
Sound Blaster PCI128

Any suggestions/ideas?
 
are u sure u waveprofiled the soundcard....cuz when that happened to me thats how i fixed. i just had to go to "Options"-> "audio" and u'll see on ya bottom left waveprofiler...also make sure u are using the lastest drives
 
Check what sampling rate it's playing back at as opposed to the rate it was recorded at. Sounds to me like recorded at 48 KHz and now playing back at 44.1KHz.
 
Teacher : I did wave-profile the card, yes - SONAR automatically profiled the card (and WDM drivers) upon installation - I then re-profiled the card upon installing the regular MME drivers and everything was fine, so it wasn't that. And yes - I am using the most current drivers as well...

Track Rat: The original files were recorded at 44.1, so unfortunately that's not the problem either :/
 
I've also got problems with those damn WDM-drivers... don't know what's wrong, though. I've tried everything, adjusting the sampling rate, reinstalling Sonar, the soundcard, and even Windows 2000. I've downloaded all new drivers for the ATI card and the SB Audigy, and updatet Win2000 via Windows Update...

God d*mn, it's driving me crazy!!!

My specs:
AMD Athlon 1.6 GHz
SB Audigy Player
ATI Radeon 7500
Two 19" Hansol monitors
512 Mb DDR-RAM
80 Gb IBM Harddrive
 
I wonder if this has *anything* to do with the fact we're using AMD CPUs - has anyone using such had any luck with WDM drivers?
 
i use an AMD chip 900 mhz wit 768 ram on XP pro
and the wdm drivers for delta 66 and sblive work fine
 
I guess that eliminates both the OS and CPU on my end of things as being the problem. I tried re-profiling the card last night, and still the same results - playback speed was off, and something I failed to mention last time :a "fluttering" sound, not totally disimilar to what a wav sounds like when you try to time compress/expand it...
 
Although this doesn't sound like a latency problem, I would at least try raising my latency settings. Usually latency problems are exhibited by dropouts and/or noise; however it's worth a try and doesn't cost anything.
 
Good idea, but didn't solve anything, at least not for me...

D'oh!
 
i had the same issue recently. the SB128 drivers suck like crap. roll back to the ones that came with windows. (i use XP, and the WDM ensoniq drivers that windows installed for me work great)
 
Ok, so perhap the problem lies within the Creative SB WDM drivers? Had anyone had any success using an SB128 and WDM drivers? I know it's a pathetically inadequate card for pro recording, but we all have to start somewhere ;]
 
Does anybody know if Microsoft has released WDM drivers for the SB Audigy?
 
Drivers

I hate to butt in but the problem seems to be no one knows where their drivers came from. Are they Microsoft or are they Creative nobody seems to know. Duh, what are drivers, anyhow?
Maybe we should answer that question first.
 
Well, in my case at least, the problem was definitely one with the Creative Labs drivers - after rolling back to the Windows XP default drivers, I no longer have any problems using WDM.

Guess Creative is releasing premature drivers :/ I assumed the manufacturer of the card would know best, but I guess in this case, we have to chalk one up to Micro$oft instead!
 
I had similar problems when Frontier Design came out with WDM drivers for their WaveCenter card.

the good thing is that Frontier Design had the good sense and HONESTY to declare the drivers to be BETA... so I knew there would be issues. Now they have knocked all the kinks out from customers like me helping them to test the drivers.

...it's your sound card manufacturer's driver that is the problem. I'm having the same issues right now with M-Audio's AudioSport Duo USB mic-pre. The USB driver for WDM can not do 48khz. It can only do 44.1. The MME driver does everything, but has more latency.
 
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