EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

> Has anyone
>   experienced this same thing? Does it have to do with XP?
>
>   I am at a loss here.
>
>   Can someone help me?
>
>   Thanks in advance
>
>   Rudie Vissenberg


Rudie:

After spending the last three weeks pulling hair and fighting latency issues
with a Midiman Audiophile and a Echo MIA on both an older Windows 2000
computer and a brand new one, I can recommend the following:

Latency and/or "ClicksandPops" issues boil down to two things under
Windows2000 and XP.

1. Card drivers.

2. IRQ Sharing or conflicts.

Any audio card _cannot_ share or confict with another device under Windows.
This is much more of an issue with 2000 and XP than with Win98 due to the
way these newer OS's handle IRQ assignments.

Sounds like your drivers are up-to-date. Make sure that after you upgraded
to XP from Me, that your Audiowerk card isn't sharing IRQ's with something
else. Your card needs to be on one IRQ all by it's lonesome. And IRQ 9 is
not a good choice, as this IRQ is used by ACPI management for IRQ sharing.
Also sharing with a video device is BAD, due to the buss bandwidth used by
video cards.

( BTW, IRQ sharing is acceptable to 2000/XP, the Hardware Device Manager
won't indicate a problem.)



Douglas Harris