Pete - check your Private Messages and also your personal email for some replies from me.

It appears that you might be in South Africa, therefore calling my cell might not be a good option for you.  (It's fine for me, but that will get expensive for you real quick).

I DID listen to the MP3 and it does indeed sound quite gnarly with distortion.

So - since I have a bunch of info in the personal emails, I will look to those to continue our analysis, and when we finish I will update this thread for others who may (hopefully) benefit from it.

Bob Bone

Does X1 still work OK?  Or could it be bad luck - and coincidence - that the LT has failed at a similar time to your move to X2?

A fine question - in one of his private messages, he indicated that it still works in X1.

Bob Bone

It's happened to me - on one of the old Cakewalk newsgroups, I ranted about the stability of one version...and after months discovered that a disk cable had become intermittent at almost exactly the same time as I installed the new version!  I did grovel :-)

I think that just about everyone in this forum has groveled - I am a repeat offender, DOH.  (I also learned that adjectives should be avoided when ranting - specially when one is wrong) :)

I am waiting for the original poster to call me on my cell, and I will try to get to the bottom of this, followed by a post catching up this thread with what gets discussed and tried.

Bob Bone

I used to use 2 delta's and as I recall there were issues with the sync between the cards. are you using spdif to link the cards for timing or having the driver sync them? 

Also what buffer size are you using?
 
If you are using asio try switching to wdm. For me the delta was more stable with wdm.

To see if it is a timing issue between the cards:

preferneces->Audio->Driver Settings

Change the "Record Timing Master" to the other device (if it's set to the 1010 change it to the 1010LT, and vice-verse).

Try a sample recording.

If it is a timing issue between the boards, now the tracks connected to the 1010 would have the distortion.

If that is the case, you will need to put a cable between the devices to sync them. IIRC, both have word clock IO.
So connect the "work clock out" of the 1010 into the "word clock in" of the LT.
Select the 1010 as the timing master for playback and recording in Sonar.
I don't remember the configuration panels for the Delta (I had a 1010 a few years ago), but you have to configure the 1010 to be the master and the LT to be the slave.
Once all that is done, the two cards should not drift out of timing.

@js516 - thank you SOOOO much for this post.  I spoke to the original poster on the phone this morning, and we had concluded it was either something with connecting the cards or some issue between those cards and X2a.

I hope this info helps resolve this, 

Bob Bone

 I realized Bob you are trying to help but this is a forum for all. These private messages are unproductive for the forum. 

When a poster has asked questions of me in a PM I have always asked them to post it on the forum. We work together and offer support to each other with a view that what we find is available to all. 

A problem solved on the forum becomes part of the forum's knowledge base. When it is done via PMs it is lost to the forum.

We have this wonderful place to support one another. It should not become a closed invitation only tech support. 

PMs should be used to discuss private matters. Things that are not suited for public disclosure. 

Fixing a problem with Sonar is not a private matter.

Please stop taking forum postings away from the forum. 

@john - I have over time ended up going through things over the phone and/or through messaging - and I have done so sparingly, and each and every time I provide a full accounting back to the thread in question, on top of that there is no new information to post to the thread as of yet.

It is usually over things like language barriers, and I have on a couple of occasions signed on remotely to view settings and such when the poster could not clearly convey information.

I do try to use my best judgment, and in any case ALWAYS make sure the thread is brought up to date as soon as possible.  In the case of this particular thread, the poster has gone off to do a phone call to Cakewalk technical support, from Sough Africa, and has agreed to update this thread with what he finds out.  I spoke to him at around 5:30 or so this morning, my time.  I believe it will be tomorrow before the thread gets updated, but it WILL get updated.

Additionally, the usual reason for a PM and private email is so that the poster can send me files and such, as sometimes I load pieces of a project on my system to see if I can uncover anything.

And, I promised to post the results of the call from this morning to this thread.  I do not have anything to update, but the poster WILL be updating the thread most likely in the wee hours our time.

Here is my earlier post snippet, promising to do so, PRECISELY to not end up with keeping the forum in the dark:

I am waiting for the original poster to call me on my cell, and I will try to get to the bottom of this, followed by a post catching up this thread with what gets discussed and tried. 
I believe I have a reasonable track record of being fairly thorough (though not always as accurate as I wish), and will certainly continue to try to do my best in the process.

Bob Bone