[ddots-l] Re: MOTU WDM Drivers Are Better Than There ASIO Ones
- From: "Phil Muir" <ddots@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:54:55 -0000
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Regards, Phil Muir
P J Muir Productions
Music And Audio Production
URL:
www.philmuir.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin L. Gibbs" <kevjazz@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 4:26 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: MOTU WDM Drivers Are Better Than There ASIO Ones
> Do you have a PCI324 or 424 card?
> K.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Phil Muir
> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 7:20 AM
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> Subject: [ddots-l] Re: MOTU WDM Drivers Are Better Than There ASIO Ones
>
>
> A MOTU 2408 with the mkII interface. I am using some drivers, from back
> in 2004. However, I did
> load up the latest vista/XP 32 drivers for the latest MOTU with the
> mkIII interface, and achieved
> the same results as previously described, with the older 2408 drivers.
>
> Regards, Phil Muir
> P J Muir Productions
> Music And Audio Production
> URL:
> www.philmuir.com/
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gordon Kent" <dbmusic@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 2:45 PM
> Subject: [ddots-l] Re: MOTU WDM Drivers Are Better Than There ASIO Ones
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>
>> Phil:
>> Which motu card do you have and which version of the driver are you
>> using? Gord
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Phil Muir" <ddots@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 8:15 AM
>> Subject: [ddots-l] Re: MOTU WDM Drivers Are Better Than There ASIO
> Ones
>>
>>
>>> Dan is right. You will need to give it a go, and see what happens.
>>> For some sound cards, ASIO,
>>> may well be a better choice than WDM. That used to be the case with
> MOTU ones.
>>>
>>> Regards, Phil Muir
>>> P J Muir Productions
>>> Music And Audio Production
>>> URL:
>>> www.philmuir.com/
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Omar Binno" <omarbinno@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 10:56 AM
>>> Subject: [ddots-l] Re: MOTU WDM Drivers Are Better Than There ASIO
> Ones
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi Phil:
>>>>
>>>> Is this applicable with any soundcard? If I'm using a delta 44, I
>>>> should also use the wdm driver
>>>> rather than the asio one?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> Omar Binno
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>> From: "Phil Muir" <ddots@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 3:34 AM
>>>> Subject: [ddots-l] MOTU WDM Drivers Are Better Than There ASIO Ones
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all!!
>>>>>
>>>>> After a chance discussion with a friend on how good MOTU's WDM
>>>>> drivers are, I felt I should
>>>>> try using my MOTU soundcards WDM drivers, rather than the ASIO
> ones. Guess what, I have found
>>>>> there is 25% les CPU usage when using the WDM drivers, over the
> ASIO ones. I have also been
>>>>> able to significantly drop the buffers in the MOTU control panel
> too.
>>>>>
>>>>> Before, I was using the ASIO drivers and running with buffers in
>>>>> the control panel of 256. My
>>>>> CPU usage was around 30% on large projects. I then moved the
> buffer down to 64 and tested with
>>>>> the ASIO drivers. The CPU usage, jumped to around 76% and some
> crackling was occuring. So,
>>>>> just for fun, I changed from ASIO to WDM, reprofiled the card, and
> the CPU usage, jumped back
>>>>> to around 51%. Note: I have also found that every time you change
> the buffers in your sound
>>>>> cards external control panel that it is necessary to reprofile the
> cards WDM driver. I
>>>>> previously hadn't done this and because of the strange audio
> artifacts that I was hearing, had
>>>>> wrongly asumed that I had set the latency too low. In my case, I
> new this couldn't be right,
>>>>> as I had actually moved the buffers in the control panel from 64 to
> 128 and higher.
>>>>>
>>>>> Conclusion, use MOTU's WDM drivers, as they are much better
>>>>> written.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards, Phil Muir
>>>>> P J Muir Productions
>>>>> Music And Audio Production
>>>>> URL:
>>>>> www.philmuir.com/
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