M-audio Audiophile 2496 On G4 933mhz W/garageband, Throwing in the towel, fighting too long Options

[The_Apparition]

I have been trying to resolve this issue for well over a year (with Gband1 and still with GBand2) and am finally throwing in the towel...

Equipment: A 933MHz G4 1.5Meg RAM with GBand2 using MIDI-OUT on a Yamaha Clavinova CLP-115 into an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 (A2496) MIDI-IN, with latest driver 1.7. OS 10.3.7 and GBand2 on internal 7200RPM Drive recording onto a separate, cleanly formatted internal 7200RPM Drive.

Issue:
1) Playback of GBand2 recordings when output through the Audio Out of the A2496 produces pops and clicks.
2) Playback of GBand2 recordings when output through the Internal Audio is sluggish.

Things Tried:
1) Followed Electronic Musician (or Keyboard - don't remember which) magazine's article on streamlining Panther to no effect.
2) Killed processes that don't need to be running, Retrospect Backup, iTunes Help, etc.
3) Ran shadow killer to reduce load on screen updates, removed fonts, etc.

Any ideas / suggestions? Any experience on latency issues, clock syncing, etc.?

Thanks in advance.

[PhilTrueman]

Apparition,

I think this is a problem that has been reported here for quite some time. If you're using the audio 'and' the MIDI on the 2496, you will get problems. Obviously the latest drivers haven't fixed the issue. I think the way around this is to have a separate USB MIDIsport interface to handle the MIDI and let the 2496 handle the audio.

It worked for me on my old 733MHz G4. 2496 for audio and an M-Audio 2-in 2-out USB MIDISport for the MIDI.

Give it a go - unless other folks here have other suggestions.

Good luck

PT

[The_Apparition]

PT,

Yesterday was my first post here. Stumbled on the site trolling the net. Thanks for your input. I browsed around the forum a bit after your reply. I saw in one of them that you said you were successfull with your A2496. Not sure if that was the same issue as this or not.

Regardless, when I put the original post in, I alluded to syncing of clocks because I had just downloaded an app called MidiClock. Wasn't sure how it is suppossed to work or what ramifications using it would be, but I will tell you: Everything has worked perfectly so far in GBand2 and internal audio (i.e. no more sluggishness!) I will test with the Audio Out of the A2496 as soon as I get my receiver hooked back up.

sequence of events:
Started gband, typical no midi in for a few seconds and then dead (no more midi-in) this while I had two browser windows open. email open and DID NOT stop any processes like I normally would do. Simply started MIDIClock, started the clock while set to internal -- still nothing. Started the clock with internal set AND the A2496 selected and lo and behold, perfect playback!

I would be interested if anyone might have a similar success pattern.

I'm excited that this finally seems to be working. The extreme sluggishness on playback is gone...and nothing but running the MIDIClock software has solved it.

[PhilTrueman]

Apparition,

Excellent - glad you got sorted. Don't know anything about MIDIClock - but I'll take a look. Info like that is just so valuable.

Look forward to you producing some tracks now.


Be all that you can be.

PT