Using Line6 Toneport UX2 as main sound card?

ORIGINAL: crowellstudios

I'm considering using my UX2 as the main sound card for my Win XP2 system with SHS7XL... has anyone tried this? I'm currently using an Audigy SE with WDM drivers in Sonar, and it seems like using the UX2 (which I already own) would be a good way to upgrade to ASIO drivers without buying any new equipment. What are the drawbacks to using the TonePort as my main sound card for Home Studio?

Thanks!

Hello,

I am a Toneport UX2 user with consecutively:

Cubase SX 2/ 3 (legit, the dongle is in my usb hub permanently)

Cakewalk Music maker 3 upgraded to:
Cakewalk Sonar Studio 6->7->8

No problems with the interface. work together like a charm....

I don't understand your question however. the Line6 UX2 is a FAR SUPERIOR audio interface/ soundcard then the Audigy! I really don't understand what the Audigy is still doing there if you own a UX2.

It is like saying, I own and drive a 20 year old sh*t car (the Audigy), but I also own a new BMW (the UX2) would I dare to drive the BMW? What are the drawbacks..

As Beagle observes, your Toneport now serves as your soundcard, and is much better than the SB

Well, I tried using the UX2 as my primary sound card yesterday and was successful with everything except CD burning... I get a terrible stutter now when I burn CDs, regardless of which program I use (Nero or Acid Music Studio). I have no idea what the issue is, since I disabled the Audigy card in the system, disabled Norton Antivirus (after taking the computer offline), had all the drivers set to ASIO with 24-bit depths, on all my software programs.

Like I say, my software was happy, everything sounded and played great, but I can no longer burn a CD that isn't flawed. I made perfect wav files and MP3s... it's confuisng.

Anyway, I may have to revert to the Audigy or just replace it with an M-Audio 2496... but if anyone else has had a similar experience to this running Windows XP 2, let me know.

I'm exporting in 16-bit, and they read that way if I open up the "Properties" tab on one of the wav files... but the main reason I think that's not the problem is because I can't burn my older wav files correctly either... the ones I created before the switchover, and which burned perfectly before then.

I disabled the SB card in windows, and changed all of the system defaults via the Windows XP Control Panel to use the UX2 for absolutely everything, both recording and playback. However, I didn't remove the SB software, and maybe that somehow is partly to blame. Nor did I physically remove the PCI card from my box.

I set up the UX2 via GearBox to use 24-bit drivers at 44.1, and did the same in Sonar, 24-bit for both recording and rendering, using the ASIO drivers rather than the WDM drivers I had been using with the Audigy card.

I think you may have hit the nail on the head with the SB software issue, though. We'll see. Thanks!

Turns out the problem was the CD drive and DVD burner in my box... they run on PIO drivers rather than DMA. I have an external DVD burner that's newer... so I disabled the two internal drives in the Control Panel and everybody is happy now. TonePort UX2 needs drives that use the DMA, and Line 6 Monkey warns you about it.

I also deleted all of my Creative software suite... so now I have my internal sound card and both internal drives disabled. I hate to make the move to a new computer, since this one is fast enough and has been very reliable (eMachines T5026) and I've upgraded it with a meg of RAM but rolled back an upgrade to XP3... Windows XP SP2 is a very stable environment, in my limited experience.

Thanks again to everyone for their help... I hope this can assist anyone else who is having TonePort driver issues. First, pay attention to what the Monkey tells you when you run the Line 6 Monkey compatibility check!

With our music systems cobbled together with so many different products put out by different companies, it's a miracle that they work at all. My job is with a software company and our own in-house software is buggier than heck, so I'm used to these headaches.

crowellstudios
Turns out the problem was the CD drive and DVD burner in my box... they run on PIO drivers rather than DMA. I have an external DVD burner that's newer... so I disabled the two internal drives in the Control Panel and everybody is happy now. TonePort UX2 needs drives that use the DMA, and Line 6 Monkey warns you about it.

I also deleted all of my Creative software suite... so now I have my internal sound card and both internal drives disabled. I hate to make the move to a new computer, since this one is fast enough and has been very reliable (eMachines T5026) and I've upgraded it with a meg of RAM but rolled back an upgrade to XP3... Windows XP SP2 is a very stable environment, in my limited experience.

Thanks again to everyone for their help... I hope this can assist anyone else who is having TonePort driver issues. First, pay attention to what the Monkey tells you when you run the Line 6 Monkey compatibility check!

With our music systems cobbled together with so many different products put out by different companies, it's a miracle that they work at all. My job is with a software company and our own in-house software is buggier than heck, so I'm used to these headaches.

I think you don't need Asio4all anymore, uninstalling it from your system may prevent conflicts...