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: <[email protected]> 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]
