I've had this card and breakout box in my recording pc for 3 years now and have always had latency problems with recording which I put down to the pc which is a pentium 4 3ghz with 3gig of ram which should be fine. I removed the driver today and then physically removed the card and then tried recording using only the edirol UA-25 USB external capture box. Now it works perfectly, no problems at all, so it would seem the problems that I have suffered for the last 3 years are all down to the damn m-audio delta.
I'm both stoked and pissed all at the same time, but all good now and no need to spend more money.
I think it's a software issue, not a hardware issue. I know, I'm fucking nuts, but hear me out.
I run a Delta 66 / Omni Breakout and a Delta 2496. Windows XP, 2.8 Gig P4 with 2 gigs of RAM.
I monitor live with a blue fucking million stacked VST ( not really, but I can) No issues, very little latency.
Here's the gist, I run Pro Tools 7.4 (older software) A year or so ago, Sonar offered upgrades to 8.5 for cheap to previous users, so I jumped for shits and grins. Although, it WORKS with the Delta stuff, it does not perform. It kept locking up with live monitoring with any kind of moderate use. Basically useless to me.
I think that the newer software, Windows 7, and newer versions of DAW's tend to support more USB, Firewire type stuff, and less of the PCI type stuff. Sure it works, which is all they say it will do, but it won't perform.
I've hesitated to Upgrade to Windows 7 for that reason. It'll cost more than I'm willing to put out, for now.
My 0.02 Quid ;D
That's what's great about Pro Tools... when it works it's rock solid...
I'm on PT10 now, which is hands-down the best tool I've worked with for audio so far, and the most stable. Even with all my UA-accelerated plugins, VSTs, a video track, and RTAS all mixed up it runs like a champ...
I originally bought it for use with ProTools M-Powered-7 and always had latency issues with it from day 1. I switched back to reaper some time ago simply because it's so very quick to use, plus can easily be transferred to another computer or even memory stick without any dongle nonsense.
With the usb soundbox everything is so much better, at least on my system.
Weird. I would have thought the USB interface would have had the latency issues since latency is inherent to USB interfaces unlike firewire.
Definitely sounds like software to be having those problems.
I will say that the M-Audio Delta cards don't do USB very well. For instance, my POD X3 USB sucks with this card. It does a little better with Sonar than with Pro Tools. In PT 7 I use the SPDIF into the M-Audio card. I have a M-Audio keyboard that works well USB.
I think the M-Audio cards want to see a direct link to the audio driver, not a computer routing via USB.
Anything at my house works that way. If you try to plug something into anything but the alloted hole, she'll start to squirm. ;D ;D
DM — May 18, 2012
Anything at my house works that way. If you try to plug something into anything but the alloted hole, she'll start to squirm. ;D ;D
Damn, not taking a trip to Brown Town there are you ? ;D ;D ;D