[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 19:08:59 -0000
Hi Luis!!
Thanks for that!
Regards, Phil Muir
P J Muir Productions
Music And Audio Production
URL:
www.philmuir.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Luis Elorza" <luiselorza@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 6:54 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: MOTU WDM Drivers Are Better Than There ASIO Ones
>i have found very convenient using wdm drivers because you don't need low
>latency all the time, i
>only use low latency when playing soft synths . when recording audio or mixing
>i usually turn the
>buffer size all the way to 100 percent and the cpu will handle a huge amount
>of plug ins and
>tracks. when i use asio i can't change the buffer size in sonar.
> by the way welcome back Phil.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Phil Muir" <ddots@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 12:34 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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