[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 15:19:54 -0000
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
> 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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