i would recommend _not_ using XP for audio - 98/ME seem to be the last windows' that audio worked properly on. i recently upgraded and both my sound cards have not functioned since.
:-----Original Message----- :From: :P [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] :Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 8:11 PM :To: 313@hyperreal.org; Al Jones :Subject: Re: [313] laptop music makers: problems and more problems : : :you need to install your OS without ACPI, and then do some backround :services optimizations for audio : :I would recommend XP as your OS of choise for audio. : :www.musicxp.net has some good tweak info and I can help you beyond that if :you have questions. : :Im able to get 4ms latency at 96khz/24bit on my xp PC with 1ghz p3 and 512 :megs of ram. : :Im using the delta 2496 : :-Joe : : :----- Original Message ----- :From: "Al Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :To: <313@hyperreal.org> :Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 3:03 PM :Subject: [313] laptop music makers: problems and more problems : : :> Hi techies, :> Based on some advice I received on this list, a few months ago I bought a :> Dell Inspiron 4100 (i gig pentium processor, 128 meg ram running Win 2K) :PC :> laptop to do music with. Only now have I started to kit it out to do :music. :> I thought that I would get a USB box for audio because they're cheap. :First :> I got a Midiman Quattro (audio+midi) which didn't work in the way it was :> supposed to (driver problems) so I sent that back and got an Edirol UA-5 :> and a Midiman 2x2. The midiman box didn't work (my laptop certainly :doesn't :> like Midiman...) and the recording on the Edirol is full of pops :and noise :> and I've fiddled with it for ages with no resolution of the problems. Has :> anyone else experienced problems like this? When I spoke to the shop that :I :> got these bits from, they told me that they have a lot of trouble with PC :> laptops and have known issues with many of these USB boxes. I :think that I :> have two options: either get a PCMCIA card for the machine that I have :> (more expensive, possibly becoming obsolete? but more reliable than USB) :or :> just get a Mac and start making music instead of playing around with :> control panels and audio settings. Agggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!! :What :> do you think? :> Regards, Al :> :> :> :> --------------------------------------------------------------------- :> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :> : : :--------------------------------------------------------------------- :To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
