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Topic: After several hours, Gigaport HD sounds like crap

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Gang

Just finishing up a wedding. Using Gport via the ESI drivers and advanced audio using all 8 outputs fro 4 decks.

After a few hours all 4 decks were getting glitches in the audio - very annoying.

Thoughts?

Windows 7 Sp1 x86.
 
Posted Sun 26 Jun 11 @ 12:01 am
From a PC tech point of view..Your cache could be filling up...try to increase its size settings.....seems like some "database" somewhere is filling up.....
 
Can try that.

ESI control panel?

I record every event in real time so I can go back and see what is happening.

The other thing I might do is ditch the 4 deck and use two separate sound cards.
 
offtopic:
as i want to buy a gigaportHD and i can' t find a good review on the hole internet for this soundcard please keep as in touch:)
 
ewitles wrote :

The other thing I might do is ditch the 4 deck and use two separate sound cards.


I understand what you want but wouldnt 2 soundcards be alittle more taxing. I always thought that if you used 2 soundcards 1 is always playing catch up if you know what I mean. Never tried 2 of the same card though so it might work........

Just thinkin outloud
Huey
 
Well, the dude behind Rock it (Softjock) has a sore spot for the multi output cards.

Says they are too demanding (too much data on the bus) and have a rather harsh output.

What he says does make sense.

Now since I last used this, I updated to latest nVidia drivers for my GT220 and latest security patches from Microsoft.

<sigh>
 
Yeah that makes sense. Maybe a better card will do the trick. Those are good cards but are they really considered "Pro Grade"? I've never used one so I don't know.

Good Luck & Hope you get it all sorted out
Huey
 
At one time the Gigaport and Maya were considered the card to have.
I would at least substitute a different card set up the same way and see what happens.

If you have the room, the Hercules Trim or MAudio Fast Track Pro would be good proven choices.
 
I might just ditch the Gport in favor of using the built in HD (WDM) for the two decks and sampler. And use an ext USB for headphone/line in.

Really a shame b/c I liked the 4 deck approach this past weekend.

And VDJ refuses to see all 8 channels via WDM multi.
 


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