Pulsar with Sonar?
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Sonar has kind of VST support via plugins like DirectiXer or VST-DX Adapter. And since I'm new to audio, I have not yet learned the advantages of ASIO. I know that Sonar has much improved latency (through support of WDM drivers, which Cubase doesn't support?) but I'm not sure if it's equivallent to Asio.. probably not...On 2002-01-10 02:08, Noctulius wrote:
SONAR works fine with Pulsar. But it has no VST support (DX and DXi instead), no ASIO support either. Only Wave audio.
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A few corrections, under WinME, you can use 16 Wave drivers for 32 channels inside Sonar, 24bit. Obviously this is still the OS to use with Sonar for now.
With Win2k, there is a limitation of that version of Windows, to only 10 wave devices. The Creamware driver was out a few months before XP was released. Under Win2k, you will NEVER be able to use more wave devices than you do now, Creamware can do nothing about it -- I imagine that this is one reason they wanted to skip Win2k entirely and develop for WinXP.
With WinXP, this wave device limitation is removed from the OS, but Creamware has not yet released a version of their drivers with XP-specific optimizations.
Wave drivers were never really intended to be used for multichannel low latency audio, and Cakewalk always has used wave drivers. With Win2k however, they worked with Microsoft to develop a new standard. There are VERY few cards which have 24-bit, low latency WDM-ks drivers, and I think it's an obvious step for Creamware to develop these.
But yes, you can use 64 channels of ASIO @ 24bit now in WinME/XP, at extremely low latencies...
With Win2k, there is a limitation of that version of Windows, to only 10 wave devices. The Creamware driver was out a few months before XP was released. Under Win2k, you will NEVER be able to use more wave devices than you do now, Creamware can do nothing about it -- I imagine that this is one reason they wanted to skip Win2k entirely and develop for WinXP.
With WinXP, this wave device limitation is removed from the OS, but Creamware has not yet released a version of their drivers with XP-specific optimizations.
Wave drivers were never really intended to be used for multichannel low latency audio, and Cakewalk always has used wave drivers. With Win2k however, they worked with Microsoft to develop a new standard. There are VERY few cards which have 24-bit, low latency WDM-ks drivers, and I think it's an obvious step for Creamware to develop these.
But yes, you can use 64 channels of ASIO @ 24bit now in WinME/XP, at extremely low latencies...
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big bad wolf:
If you are using 98 or me then you have to set the the sream>16bit audio to 3 bytes then 24bit will work fine(under the last tab of audio settings). for some reason sonar's wav profiler messes this up and sets it to one of the other settings. Also be carful if you experiment with the other settings some make the nastiest sound you have ever heard. BTW the files are playing now their just about 90dB too quiet. good luck
Ryan
If you are using 98 or me then you have to set the the sream>16bit audio to 3 bytes then 24bit will work fine(under the last tab of audio settings). for some reason sonar's wav profiler messes this up and sets it to one of the other settings. Also be carful if you experiment with the other settings some make the nastiest sound you have ever heard. BTW the files are playing now their just about 90dB too quiet. good luck
Ryan
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thanks subhuman/RyanC,
I am using W98SE (P3,933, 512RAM) so will give your suggestion a whirl and advise of the result.
( it seems a little draconian to have to revert to 9.03 to record 24 bit audio and extremely frustrating not to be able to use the powerhouse of new effects within SONAR because of this issue, so i will eagerly try your suggestions)
thanks
I am using W98SE (P3,933, 512RAM) so will give your suggestion a whirl and advise of the result.
( it seems a little draconian to have to revert to 9.03 to record 24 bit audio and extremely frustrating not to be able to use the powerhouse of new effects within SONAR because of this issue, so i will eagerly try your suggestions)
thanks
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