New M-AUDIO Soundcard (Performance Probs)

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Posted by Kris Xperiment on Jan-06-2007 16:37:

New M-AUDIO Soundcard (Performance Probs)

I bought a new M-Audio sound card last night (AUDIOPHILE 192)
I installed it last night on my fairly new PC

Specs:
-AMD Athlon Dual Core processing 4600+ 2.40ghz
-2GB DDR Ram
-Intergrated N-Vidia graphics processor
-M-Audio Audiophile 192 (Which replaced the intergrated RealTek onboard)

I'm fairly new to sound card installations and whatnot, I installed the card and installed the drivers. The problem is with performance and how to connect my headphones :S (noob here)

1)The headphones I have are Sennheiser 280HD pro.
and the Card has S/PDIF in/out connectors, and the breakout cable.
Where do I plug them in? I tried the Analog inputs on the Haedphones but I think I need a signal splitter.

2) I know all soundcards have limits on how much load they can take.
But I was expecting a better performance with my card using FL and Ableton. I hear that ASIO is the best approach for production sound cards. So I though it would help if I provided the following screenshots of my settings, perhaps someone can help me grasp the concept of settings.

DAW Settings

FL STUDIO SETTINGS

I was getting better performance from my old Intergrated piece of
crap, I was expecting M-audio coul dboost my performance :S

If anyone could remotely help me, I would be very grateful, I'm dying without producing and It's really frustrating.

Thank you

Cristianf

Posted by nec on Jan-06-2007 18:44:

Did you expect audiointerface for 500€ to have its own processor?

Posted by DigiNut on Jan-06-2007 19:15:

2 ms ASIO latency? I usually can't even get that on my E-mu with more than a few channels to mix. Crank that up to at least 10, maybe even 50, and see if you're still having problems.

You can't plug headphones into an S/PDIF out. That's a digital output. You need to plug them into an analog out (usually a headphone jack!)

Posted by supersonik on Jan-11-2007 03:41:

Set your DMA buffer size in the m-audio setting to the max. Oh and you'll need a mixer if you want to use headphones.

Posted by Kris Xperiment on Jan-11-2007 11:54:

I already fixed it

Thanks for the help guys.
turns out I didn't need a mixer, I just bought a signal splitter for left and right mono to plug in headphones