Bill,


Is there a "Best Practice" setting for "Driver Mode"?  I know a lot of it depends on drivers used, but are there recommended settings for ASIO vs MME.  Those are the two I use the most, depending on whether I have my TASCAM US-1800 hooked up or not.  Would love to hear a recommendation for an ASIO sound card.  Then I wouldn't use MME at all.  One thing I have learned over the years it not to "Share Drivers With Other Programs".  One of my goals is to use X2 not only in the studio, but also in live gig situations whether it be standalone or hybrid with my other devices (i.e. compressors, FX, EQ, etc.). I found that in X1, dragging an effect on a vocal strip for example, would introduce a fair amount of latency. That was also using a laptop that I feel may have been under powered for the job. I would sure love not to drag my 32-channel board around to all the venues and just use X2.  I have improved my hardware quite bit (see signature) so X2 should handle the task at hand.  Appreciate any comments/suggestions.

Bill Jackson [Cakewalk
]

In X2, make sure you set up your Driver Mode and buffer settings the same as you have them in X1.  You can run the two side-by-side.  Go back and forth between the two and check Edit > Preferences (Or type P).  The stuff important to your issue will be found in the Audio sections, near the top.

If this is not possible/easy for you.  Try just applying different Driver Modes in the "Playback and Recording" section.

Bill Jackson [Cakewalk
]

By the way, just for future reference and in case anyone else is interested:

There are a few config files in SONAR.  Basically one for the Audio Engine (aud.ini), one for the MIDI Engine (ttsseq.ini) and one for general settings (cakewalk.ini).  These hold a bunch of settings and values that a typical user probably doesn't need to see, but, on rare occasion, may need to modify (this is mostly for Tech Support's easy access and legibility).  For example: When we scan your audio and MIDI drivers, we determine some technical settings.  We stash those settings in these files so the scan doesn't need to occur on every launch.  Something apparently went wrong with your initial audio settings, and we asked SONAR to try again by clicking that button.

Is the  [AliasInput] and [AliasOutput] where we can raname the ins and out so that 'friendly names' show up?

harpman58


Bill,


Is there a "Best Practice" setting for "Driver Mode"?  I know a lot of it depends on drivers used, but are there recommended settings for ASIO vs MME.  Those are the two I use the most, depending on whether I have my TASCAM US-1800 hooked up or not.  Would love to hear a recommendation for an ASIO sound card.  Then I wouldn't use MME at all.  One thing I have learned over the years it not to "Share Drivers With Other Programs".  One of my goals is to use X2 not only in the studio, but also in live gig situations whether it be standalone or hybrid with my other devices (i.e. compressors, FX, EQ, etc.). I found that in X1, dragging an effect on a vocal strip for example, would introduce a fair amount of latency. That was also using a laptop that I feel may have been under powered for the job. I would sure love not to drag my 32-channel board around to all the venues and just use X2.  I have improved my hardware quite bit (see signature) so X2 should handle the task at hand.  Appreciate any comments/suggestions.

Unfortunately, no.  There is no "best practice" for a driver mode setting (if there was, believe us, we'd set it that way FOR everyone).  You'll just need to check each out and make your own call.  We do know what we've seen to be the best option, in our experience (both personal and from taking support calls).  We post these settings here:  https://cakewalk.com/Support/hwsetup.aspx 


I'd like to offer a recommendation on an interface, but a lot goes into the decision.  How many ins/outs you need is a big one, for example.  In my experience, my two favorites have been the MOTU 828 (but it has been years since I've used one - it was on XP) and the RME Fireface800.  I recommend starting a new thread asking the question and explaining your requirements.  I'm sure a lot of folks will have great advice and opinions on the topic.

Bill Jackson [Cakewalk
]

By the way, just for future reference and in case anyone else is interested:

There are a few config files in SONAR.  Basically one for the Audio Engine (aud.ini), one for the MIDI Engine (ttsseq.ini) and one for general settings (cakewalk.ini).  These hold a bunch of settings and values that a typical user probably doesn't need to see, but, on rare occasion, may need to modify (this is mostly for Tech Support's easy access and legibility).  For example: When we scan your audio and MIDI drivers, we determine some technical settings.  We stash those settings in these files so the scan doesn't need to occur on every launch.  Something apparently went wrong with your initial audio settings, and we asked SONAR to try again by clicking that button.

Thanks again Bill. Its working a charm. These settings I never go into because I don't understand them haha, never thought baout defaulting them because
A) I hadn't made a change (intentionally)'
B) Didn't know what it would do haha.

Thanks Bill, Appreciate the feedback.  I'm happy with my TASCAM US-1800.  Gives me all the channels I will need.  I will look around for a sound card that supports ASIO.  I'd like to stay on ASIO drivers all the time since they are very low latency.
 
Bill Jackson [Cakewalk
]

harpman58


Bill,


Is there a "Best Practice" setting for "Driver Mode"?  I know a lot of it depends on drivers used, but are there recommended settings for ASIO vs MME.  Those are the two I use the most, depending on whether I have my TASCAM US-1800 hooked up or not.  Would love to hear a recommendation for an ASIO sound card.  Then I wouldn't use MME at all.  One thing I have learned over the years it not to "Share Drivers With Other Programs".  One of my goals is to use X2 not only in the studio, but also in live gig situations whether it be standalone or hybrid with my other devices (i.e. compressors, FX, EQ, etc.). I found that in X1, dragging an effect on a vocal strip for example, would introduce a fair amount of latency. That was also using a laptop that I feel may have been under powered for the job. I would sure love not to drag my 32-channel board around to all the venues and just use X2.  I have improved my hardware quite bit (see signature) so X2 should handle the task at hand.  Appreciate any comments/suggestions.

Unfortunately, no.  There is no "best practice" for a driver mode setting (if there was, believe us, we'd set it that way FOR everyone).  You'll just need to check each out and make your own call.  We do know what we've seen to be the best option, in our experience (both personal and from taking support calls).  We post these settings here:  https://cakewalk.com/Support/hwsetup.aspx 


I'd like to offer a recommendation on an interface, but a lot goes into the decision.  How many ins/outs you need is a big one, for example.  In my experience, my two favorites have been the MOTU 828 (but it has been years since I've used one - it was on XP) and the RME Fireface800.  I recommend starting a new thread asking the question and explaining your requirements.  I'm sure a lot of folks will have great advice and opinions on the topic.

 I am having somewhat the same issue.  No latency problems in X1.  Loaded a project in X2 and the drum track has latency while reading from the midi track.  Also huge latency, .97, from midi input.

While running asio I tried to open asio control panel from sonar and the button will not work.

Then tried to use wmd driver so I could adjust latency from preference screen.  I could move the slider to lower latency but the time never changed.  It would not change it when I slid the slider nor would it change it after I hit apply.

any ideas?  I sent an email to tech support as well.

oh....running i7 with a delta1010

With the Delta, you'll probably get better results using ASIO mode.  Then set the buffer size by clicking the ASIO Panel button (SONAR can't set them in ASIO - needs to be done on the hardware control software).

If that doesn't help, try all of the suggestions listed in post #7.

Yes, the Maudio seemed to work better with asio.  The ASIO button does not work.  What also really confuses me is the latency occurs when it is reading from midi tracks.
 
When I open the same file in X1 it works perfectly.

OK!!  I fixed the latency.  Here is what I did and no I have no idea how I got there!

I looked in the task manager and the computer was not running ASIO and that is why the ASIO button was not working.

opened sonar X2
went to preferences and deselected all the maudio i/o's.
selected mobo on board sound and ASIO engine started.
opened ASIO from task bar
selected all maudio i/o's in ASIO panel
deselected mobo on board sound in ASIO panel
closed ASIO panel
went back to preferences
deselected mobo on board sound in preferences
selected all maudio i/o's in preferences
applied settings.
IT WORKED!

Now I am back to the same issue that I had when I upgraded to X1.  I get drop outs now and then and CPU spikes.  At least I fixed my latency issue.