Post by Mink99 on Mar 10, 2010 21:51:44 GMT
I am using ASIO4ALL in a different scenario than the usual "Make consumer audio capable"
I have a standard audio workstation PC (AMD DualCore, 4 GIG, XP Cubase 5 etc)
I recently changed my audio-setup from a Firewire (M-audio FW410) setup to an ADAT setup to increase performance, add more channels and reduce latency furthermore (i expected to come down to 5-6 msec asio latency). I chose a Behringer ADA 8000 as the ADAT converter and a Marian Marc A as the interface board.
Unfortunately I did not recognize that the Marian XP ASIO drivers are not compatible to cubase (has to have a latency around 12 ms, or crackles and glitches occur), and this is known to the manufacturer since Steinberg released Cubase V4.1 (quite a long time ago Google where have you been when I needed you ?
)
So I could choose, drop the (new) hardware, which is at 150 EUR or find something else. During my tests to ensure that my DAW was not the reason for the problems i ran a test with adressing the Marian WDM driver through asio4all instead of using the Marian ASIO driver directly.
Now i have an acceptable performance (5.5 msec latency, which makes an additonal 2 ms overhead for Asio4all, and an increase of the asio-load of 10-15% which is still acceptable) and no crackles and glitches. As I am using 2.10 beta i expect even a little more performance when 2.10 release will be available.
This approach might also work for other cubase-users who have a powerful hardware and fight with incompatibilites between (buggy) Cubase and (buggy) Asio drivers.
regards
Mink
I have a standard audio workstation PC (AMD DualCore, 4 GIG, XP Cubase 5 etc)
I recently changed my audio-setup from a Firewire (M-audio FW410) setup to an ADAT setup to increase performance, add more channels and reduce latency furthermore (i expected to come down to 5-6 msec asio latency). I chose a Behringer ADA 8000 as the ADAT converter and a Marian Marc A as the interface board.
Unfortunately I did not recognize that the Marian XP ASIO drivers are not compatible to cubase (has to have a latency around 12 ms, or crackles and glitches occur), and this is known to the manufacturer since Steinberg released Cubase V4.1 (quite a long time ago Google where have you been when I needed you ?
) So I could choose, drop the (new) hardware, which is at 150 EUR or find something else. During my tests to ensure that my DAW was not the reason for the problems i ran a test with adressing the Marian WDM driver through asio4all instead of using the Marian ASIO driver directly.
Now i have an acceptable performance (5.5 msec latency, which makes an additonal 2 ms overhead for Asio4all, and an increase of the asio-load of 10-15% which is still acceptable) and no crackles and glitches. As I am using 2.10 beta i expect even a little more performance when 2.10 release will be available.
This approach might also work for other cubase-users who have a powerful hardware and fight with incompatibilites between (buggy) Cubase and (buggy) Asio drivers.
regards
Mink