mmm...m-audio 1010s...sarap!!
well this guy hasnt got the cash for something like that yet...
so would it be better kung kuha ako ng 2/3 soundcards of the same type??
if so...any suggestions on a cheap solution?? I saw CMI soundcards at around 500 bucks each...ayus lang ba yun?? or low end creative cards kaya??
It's possible but it sometimes won't work. Apparently, you can't have 2 audigy's working in one pc; something to do with Creative's driver implementation. abyssinianson is right about not using gaming cards for serious recording work. I've been thru that path and, sad to say, it is sometimes the only recourse for most of us here. At least there is an MAudio distributor in P'que so there is hope. You can use multiple Maudio cards in one computer
I hope you're not serious about CMI because their signal to noise is horrendous - the classic you-get-what-you-pay-for. I doubt if you can hear the full frequency range of your mix. The Creatives naman have a fixed 48 kHz sampling rate which can cause problems if you have to master to 44.1 kHz cd format. Most samplerate conversion algorithms in a lot of the 'locally available' sound editing progs leave weird artifacts in the high frequencies.
did try the ASIO...the other card wouldnt show up...so ill stick with the wdm..buti na lang may audio click ang sonar 4 PE
I did mention that ASIO ties you to one audio device at a time so if you have 2 or more cards of different makes, sorry, no go; WDM lang ang pwedeng multiple cards pero sa latency ka naman talo. Like I said earlier, Maudio is the choice for multiple cards.
I'd rely more on midi metronome thru an external device (keyboard, module) than with Sonar's audio metronome especially if you can't get latency below 10ms. Trust me, the actual latency is the reported latency times 2 so if your lowest is 10 ms, the actual latency is 20 ms and that is very audible and can screw up timing considerably. That's also the reason why asio is the preferred driver because you can get lower latencies. Some cards have wdm drivers that can give very low latencies but I haven't seen any that are locally available.
Now you're thinking asio4all will give you low latencies. Asio4all is a wdm wrapper that makes the soundcard's wdm drivers appear as asio to the host application. It may show you low latencies but what it doesn't show is that it adds 11 ms on top of the reported latency.
