New sound card Had enough of Audiophile!

[Mus0]

Hi

Ive had my audiophile 24/96 and could never get it full working since i upgraded to XP. Now I recent upgraded to pentium 4 to resolve the issue. The problem is a strange one I will get a blip every now and then, sometimes it will not happen for 10 minutes and sometimes it will happen twice in 1 second. Anyway Ive tried everything else and I am going to get a new card. I need something pretty much exactley like the Audiophile so I can plug my midi keyboard in and use Gigastudio nice and fast. But the main this Is that is must be really compatible with windows XP etc. If anyones got any ideas I would be very grateful!

Cheers

[§eth]

have ya checked out Echo Mia Midi? It\'s arround the same price and has 8 virtual outs on it.

have you read your manual about how to adjust the latency on the audiophile? There is something in the Giga manual as well changing buffer size etc...? I\'d try that first before you spend more money images/icons/smile.gif

[Bill]

Probably the audiophile would be fine if used something else for MIDI.

[Mus0]

Hi

Please explain what you mean, something else for Midi? I get pops even when playing Audio. The card is a nightmare totally. I even have a WAV recording showing the problem if youre interested. Also I know my stuff about this, Ive tried everything, its gotta be some hardware problem.

[§eth]

hmmm it sounds like buffer and latency set up problems, what is your DMA buffer set at? i left mine at 384 and It\'s fine. Have you toyed with the dithering? What is your hard drive? (at least 7200 with 8 meg cache?)

[Jamieh]

The card is a nightmare totally<font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Arial\">Just to let you know Mus, I\'m running two Audiophile 24/96\'s (one on XP, one on 98) and they are both working great for me. So there is probably something not set up right with your system. Especially if you are getting plops in your regular non-Giga audio. Sounds like some sort of system conflict to me. Sorry it isn\'t working for you.

[Joanne Babunovic]

Maybe also post what motherboard you are using - which might also be another consideration in compatibility with the soundcard. I have p4 with gigabyte motherboard and like RME Hammerfall Multiface...has all the outs.

Joanne

[RickD]

Am I the only one who thinks the pops are the result of a faulty clock? It\'s possible your card\'s internal clock is slipping, simply because it \'s got a circuit that\'s going bad. I had similar problems with my motu 2408, so I bought another one, and guess what, it had the same problem! I took it back and exchanged it for another one which finally worked.

The way they make these digital PCI cards must be sloppy or something, hit and miss.

Good luck,
Rick

[pantonality]

Hi All,

I have three cards from different manufacturers and only one of them has failed to function properly from the start and continues to do so, my Audiophile 2496. The ESI (formerly Egosystems) Waveterminal 2496 has become the workhorse of my Giga system. My RME Dig 24/8 PST has worked rock solid from the first time I installed it and reinstalled it. It has been the most trouble free piece of computer gear I\'ve ever owned.

My problem with the Audiophile is the S/PDIF output just doesn\'t work. It sounds fine, but for the life of me I can\'t get the digital output functioning. I built a second machine around this card and this crucial function refuses to work. ARGH! I should have saved up a boit longer and just bought another RME card. You don\'t have to buy a Hammerfall to get RME quality.

Steve Chandler
http://www.mp3.com/stevechandler (\"http://www.mp3.com/stevechandler\")

[michael88s]

Have you tried disabling ACPI?

I\'ve been having a similar problem, just got rid of ACPI and will be \'roadtesting\' the system tomorrow. If it works out I\'ll post again.

Incidentally Steve, I haven\'t been able to get SPDIF working either- although I find the manual a bit tough to understand and may be doing something wrong.


michael88s


michael88s

[§eth]

I had problems with the Spif also until I plugged in the Midi adaptoer and pluged the cable into that.9make sure the card is not muted and I agree the manual kinda sucks)

[§eth]

Originally posted by §ETH:
I had problems with the Spdif also until I plugged in the Midi adaptoer and pluged the cable into that.(make sure the card is not muted and I agree the manual kinda sucks) <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Arial\">

[TEMPS]

I highly recommend the Echo Mia Midi. I had an Audiophile 2496 for over a year and tried everything to get it to work. In the end the regular audio playback was fine but it could not handle midi on my system (what the specific problem was, no one has been able to tell me). I purchased the Mia Midi and all of my problems were instantly solved. It is an excellent card.

[Jamieh]

Huh, I have a two card S/PDIF chain on my Audiophiles and it works without any latency or other problems. I guess I\'m just lucky.

[Scott Cairns]

Same here, I have the Audiophile 2496 in an old PIII. No problems at all.

Have you tried putting the card into a different PCI slot?

[Sapkiller]

I\'ve tried several soundcards for my Giga rig and
finaly found peace with a RME Digi96/8 Pad :-)
It gives me no trouble - just pure sound and
the ADAT is great for streaming directly into
my sequencer platform. Does\'nt have any midi
though, but then again I\'m using MidiOverLan.

regs.
Bjarne

[michael88s]

I mentioned getting back regarding ACPI as a possible cause for your problem, but it\'s taken me awhile.

It depends on the type of glitch you\'re getting I\'m thinking.

If it\'s not clicks and pops, but something like what I was getting- an occasional timing glitch, like you\'d play a note on the keyboard and there\'s a hesitation before it plays, which also shows up in the midi data if you record it- then turning off ACPI helps, at least it helped me. That particular problem is gone.

Of course there always seem to be a few new probs waiting in the wings images/icons/wink.gif .

regards,
michael88s

[Jared Hudson]

Mus0,


I think I know EXACTLY what your problem is. Sounds like the same problem I had when I first got my card. Try this:

Goto Hardware Settings in your M-Audio properties. Uncheck \"Reset Rate When Idle\", then select your Codec Rate at 48000Hz as your standard and Lock It. Make sure everything else is at the default settings.

I got those blips too, and they\'d be so random. After I did this...fixed it forever. Hope that helps!

Jared

[§eth]

currious if your using a new MOBO that suppports hyperthreading, try to disable it and see if that helps!

[VocalSampleSeeker]

My two audiophiles work fine, though I hadn\'t been using the S/PDIF. After reading some of the comments above, I thought it might be good to verify that S/PDIF works -- and it does. You do have to set the clock correctly -- when using S/PDIF INPUT, the clock setting in the control panel (hardware settings) must be set to \"S/PDIF In\". And the sample rate settings must match, sender and receiver.