KVR Audio

PeterL · Post by **PeterL** » Mon May 14, 2007 4:58 pm

Just want to say that RME does another great step forward by releasing this new driver:
Now at 0.7ms (700ns) latency !!

I just want to let you know my problems, when I updated my Multiface from the last 2.94(4) to 3.02:
After firmware upgrade of the card and installation of the new driver, I saw

: No MIDI-Port available anymore, although WinXP said that Multiface MIDI is correctly installed. Also the LEDs of the RME box indicates no error. Audio worked properly.
It tooks me 2 hours to solve the problem: The windows service called "Windows Audio" (To verify: Start->Run->msconfig) was switched off (by the installation or by me in the past, I don't know).
After switching it on again, all works correctly.
I just want to let you know this, if anyone other runs into that problem.

BertKoor · Post by **BertKoor** » Mon May 14, 2007 5:01 pm

That's a buffer sized at 64 samples at 96khz I presume? And how dows that perform on a fully loaded project?

Kingston · Post by **Kingston** » Mon May 14, 2007 5:05 pm

BertKoor wrote:That's a buffer sized at 64 samples at 96khz I presume?

no that's the 32 sample setting at 44.1khz.

BertKoor wrote:And how does that perform on a fully loaded project?

not well. quite obviously.

massive overhead required - as expected.

I've been using that driver since an early beta and it's a great improvement over the 2.x series. Multimedia stuff is now usable, and there's a great optimisation in terms of CPU usage at low latencies (effective at roughly 64-512 samples).

PeterL · Post by **PeterL** » Tue May 15, 2007 5:56 am

BertKoor wrote:That's a buffer sized at 64 samples at 96khz I presume? And how dows that perform on a fully loaded project?

I have no performance problems on my projects, but you can read this review ïn cubase.net from another user (that's the place where I heard from the new driver first):
http://forum.cubase.net/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=53426
Another good one: Quicktime Player in iTunes (iPod Software) works the first time correctly on my system.

calex · Post by **calex** » Tue May 15, 2007 6:21 am

A commercial for RME wouldn't be more effective than this rave. Great post from an RME saleman.

PeterL · Post by **PeterL** » Tue May 15, 2007 11:52 am

PeterL wrote:I just want to let you know my problems, when I updated my Multiface from the last 2.94(4) to 3.02:
After firmware upgrade of the card and installation of the new driver, I saw : No MIDI-Port available anymore, although WinXP said that Multiface MIDI is correctly installed. Also the LEDs of the RME box indicates no error. Audio worked properly.
It tooks me 2 hours to solve the problem: The windows service called "Windows Audio" (To verify: Start->Run->msconfig) was switched off (by the installation or by me in the past, I don't know).
After switching it on again, all works correctly.

FYI: Today I found info and solution to these problems on RME's Tech Info:
English:
http://www.rme-audio.de/en_support_tech ... q_10entryd
German:
http://www.rme-audio.de/support_techinf ... q_10entryd

RME WDM driver rocks !!