Posted on Jul 13, 2003 12:41 am
Bob
Member Since: Jun 20, 2003
Well I finally took the plunge & installed my new M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card. First I downloaded the latest driver from M-Audio. I waited all this time (2 weeks) until my SONAR 2.2 XL S/W arrived. Got that installed also & set the audio options to use the AP2496 ASIO drivers (it says my latency is 11.6 msec). I tried recording & playing back some audio & midi. Seems to work well (sounds stable & clean). I haven't tried any 24-bit recording yet, but that's next.
Now here's some of the peculiarities I'm wrestling with : First I can't get any sound out of the metronome. I brought-up the M-Audio Control Panel & made sure the WavOut 1/2 volume was turned-up. Also, on the Patchbay / Router tab, I've tried alternately selecting the WavOut 1/2 and Monitor Mixer. Still not getting any metronome. Also tried both the Midi Metronome & the Use PC Speaker in the metronome tool bar still no metronome sound.
Second problem : Outside of SONAR, I've had extremely variable results in getting sounds (eg. Media Player) to output to the AP2496 card. I have gone into the Media Player tools->options->devices->speakers->properties->set to: DirectSound: M-Audio Delta AP Multichannel. That doesn't seem to help, but I have found that sometimes Media Player does work (outputing to the AP2496), but only if I'm running SONAR. I've also tried another player (Roxio AudioCentral) & I've found that it very consistantly will play wav & mp3 files, when SONAR is running, but when SONAR is not running, with AudioCentral trying to play wav's or mp3's I get continuous rapid fire (~4 hz) clicks out of the AP2496. I've also gotten this click chorus (from the AP), without even intentionally trying to play audio to it. I Just exit SONAR & sometimes it starts -- get back into SONAR & it stops.
By the way I did leave my SB Live card in the box too. I've been able to go back & forth between using the SB & the AP, by going into Control Panel -> Sounds and Audio Devices -> Audio -> set playback & recording devices to either M-Audio Delta AP Multichannel or SB Live! Audio (also did this on the Voice tab). I may be goofing up somewhere in that process (causing Media Player to work intermittantly).
Late Breaking News! I found that I was able to get the metronome to play in SONAR by using the Midi Metronome and going to the Options -> Midi devices -> Outputs -> set to Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth. Is this the best way to do this? Why won't PC Speaker work? For that matter what exactly is meant by PC Speaker? Is that a separate S/W audio stream that has to be enabled somewhere?
Well sorry to ramble on so long about this stuff but I figured if anybody had the solution to these problems, it would be you folks on this board.
Later - Bob
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