[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 20:08:35 -0000
Busy over on the MIDIMag list, and doing other things.
Regards, Phil Muir
P J Muir Productions
Music And Audio Production
URL:
www.philmuir.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Christer" <m-christer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 8:01 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: MOTU WDM Drivers Are Better Than There ASIO Ones
> Hey Phil!
>
> "...by the way welcome back Phil..."
>
> Where have you been?
>
> Mike
> ----- 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
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>
>>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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