Delta 1010 - XP?

[Christo7]

I bought the 1010 and turned right around and took it back! I encountered so many pops I couldn\'t get anything done. I tried everything to get card to work with no success. Midiman was useless as I couldn\'t get a reply - phone or e-mail! Tascam was pretty much the same way, useless and arrogant. BTW - I was running XP home on a P4 - 1.8ghz 850cs system. If I were you I\'d get rid of it ASAP.

[stevefu]

Interesting... What card did you choose to replace it with, and how did that work out?

My spec: P4 2.0GHz / ASUS i845D / 1GB DDR / XP Pro

Right now I\'m just going through the various XP MAudio 1010 drivers from earliest to most recent, to see if something magically fixes itself that way.

[Christo7]

I replaced it with an RME 96/8 PAD card which is fantastic, a bit pricey but works great and sounds fantastic. No Midi though. I also have an ASUS board P4T-E.

[stevefu]

Can anyone share their recent success/disaster stories and fixes or ideas regarding using the MAudio Delta 1010 under WinXP Pro?

I hear the occasional random pop even outside Gigastudio when testing with commercial CDs and mp3s. I\'m using the most recent drivers and have no IRQ conflicts, trying all kinds of buffer settings from 64 up to 1024.

Thank you.

[stevefu]

Thanks for the info. Which MIDI interface are you using?

[Worra]

Hmmm... I\'m running my Delta 1010 under WinXP and it works flawlessly.

[stevefu]

Does your MIDI IN light \'flutter\' constantly(blink really fast) when your keyboard is plugged in to it?

I find that when I change the \'sync\' setting on the keyboard to internal clock vs. external sync it changes the way the MIDI IN LED lights. On external sync it goes solid, on internal clock it makes the LED flutter. When the keyboard is played, the LED will go solid when the note is sent.

Maybe there\'s some unnecessary MIDI info being sent through the MIDI port?

Are you using the Delta\'s midi port?

[guitar_man]

Interesting..I am running a pair of IBM NetVista, one with W2k and the other with XP. I have a 1010 in each of them, and they both work equally flawless.

[stevefu]

Btw, I\'m not saying its unusable, the sound quality is generally very good. I\'d say a couple of distinct pops might happen every 1 minute on average during realtime monitoring. For realtime output it would obviously be a problem but I have a workaround in the form of the Capture to Wave function, which is producing clean recordings.

Still, it\'s annoying not being able to fix this problem.

[Christo7]

Steve, I had Exactly the same problem! Playing no note on the keyboard the Midi in Light would flutter constantly. I clocked it to my 888/24 and the other way around and still had the problem. sounds like you bought my unit! from GC.

[stevefu]

[stevefu]

Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it.

[Christo7]

Same Experience! My audio quality with the 1010 was not that great. I use an RME 96/8 PAD and use a MOTU Midi Express XT for Data. I think that the Midiman 1010 is overly hyped and has some bugs to be worked out. I think Midiman needs to respond to their customers better or they will do as I did, Find something way better! BTW the Midi Express is very cool, as I can hook my PC nad Mac together.

[JohnS]

I had the Delta 1010 and also got the occasional pop playing Gigapiano. It sounded fine and all, but I didn\'t get any pops with my much cheaper SB Live card, so I decided to check out other audio cards. The midi also was flashing occasionally when hooked up to my keyboard. When I turned off the keyboard, the midi flashing stopped, so I concluded my old K1000 is a bit buggy and sending some additional controller info. I also felt the XP GSIF driver for the Delta was not as good as the WIn98 version. Latency was more noticable.

I have since picked up a RME Multiface. This card has better latency in XP and gives me no pops or crackels. So I am happier. However, due to some midi conflict I am unable to use the Multiface midi port. When selected in Giga setup, I get MSGServ32 and WaveStream errors and am unable to even load a sample. But selecting my SB Live midi port makes everything work beautifully. Earlier, I thought the SB Live was the problem and took it out. But the midi problem existed with Multiface being the sole audio card. I find the SB Live an acceptable workaround, and the Multiface gives me 9 stereo outputs, which matches my Digi 001 perfectly.

AMD 1600+ CPU
GA-7DX Mobo
Promise Fast Track 100 Raid Controller
CDRW and DVD player
nVidia video card
RME Multiface