Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 6:09 pm
I know everybody's sick of the subject, BUT...
Just on a whim I decided to see if, after all of Microsoft's service packs and after all the time that has passed, if CreamWare's WDM drivers would behave any better. To my complete and utter surprise, I found that in some circumstances, they work BETTER than ASIO! At at least up to four or five outputs running, I was getting better performance with WDM -- bringing up synth interfaces and running lots of envelopes produced no clicks or pops. At 5.8ms latency! (I'm using Sonar 3.1.1.) No blue screens either!
Then I decided to raise the number of drivers to 16. The performance went down the tubes, and I got a blue screen. But it seems to work pretty well at up to around 5 -- at 8 I was getting crackling in ONE track. Whatever...
So things have definitely imrpoved in recent times. I will probably use WDM *over* ASIO in light projects where I'm only using a few I/Os. Strange, isn't it??
Anybody have any other comments?
Shayne
Just on a whim I decided to see if, after all of Microsoft's service packs and after all the time that has passed, if CreamWare's WDM drivers would behave any better. To my complete and utter surprise, I found that in some circumstances, they work BETTER than ASIO! At at least up to four or five outputs running, I was getting better performance with WDM -- bringing up synth interfaces and running lots of envelopes produced no clicks or pops. At 5.8ms latency! (I'm using Sonar 3.1.1.) No blue screens either!
Then I decided to raise the number of drivers to 16. The performance went down the tubes, and I got a blue screen. But it seems to work pretty well at up to around 5 -- at 8 I was getting crackling in ONE track. Whatever...
So things have definitely imrpoved in recent times. I will probably use WDM *over* ASIO in light projects where I'm only using a few I/Os. Strange, isn't it??
Anybody have any other comments?
Shayne
