{"id":116,"date":"2005-07-24T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-24T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/post\/2005\/07\/24\/M-Audio-Delta-66-PCI-audio-interface"},"modified":"2005-07-24T10:03:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-24T10:03:00","slug":"m-audio-delta-66-pci-audio-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/24\/m-audio-delta-66-pci-audio-interface\/","title":{"rendered":"M-Audio Delta 66 PCI audio interface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.m-audio.com\/products\/en_us\/Delta66.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/gear\/delta_66.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had no problems at all with this interface in Windows XP. Sonar just profiled the device and away we go. I initially thought I would never use the SPDIF inputs but then I got the Roland Fantom, which has digital audio out. Apart from being lower in volume, I figure it has got to be better, right? So I feed the Fantom digital out into the SPDIF on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.m-audio.com\/products\/en_us\/Delta66.html\">Delta-66<\/a> card.<\/p>\n<p>Since moving to a Windows 7 64-bit workstation, I have had some issues. Occasionally I&#8217;ll hit the playback or record in SONAR, and instead of getting sound I&#8217;ll get silence. I&#8217;ve learned to hit the stop button pretty quickly when this happens, because if I don&#8217;t I&#8217;ll get a pulsing pile of digital <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4N1lRV_zO3A\">rhythmic feedback noise on my electrodes<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I suspect the Win64 drivers from M-Audio are to blame. It happens whether I select ASIO or WDM\/Kernel streaming mode, and is not affected by buffer sizing.<\/p>\n<p>If M-Audio don&#8217;t produce updated drivers that solve the proble, then at some point, I am going to have to switch to a different vendor. Probably <a href=\"http:\/\/www.echoaudio.com\/Products\/PCI\/Layla3G\/index.php\">Echo Layla 3G<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had no problems at all with this interface in Windows XP. Sonar just profiled the device and away we go. I initially thought I would never use the SPDIF inputs but then I got the Roland Fantom, which has digital audio out. Apart from being lower in volume, I figure it has got to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equipment","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}