soundcard

Does anybody know what the exact name of the Sigmatel soundcard in the M1530 is and where to get the latest driver?
The driver off the Dell support website creates too much latency for my software to play a simple 4 track MIDI project correctly. :-(

 

Try going into device manager, it will tell you the exact name and model of the card. Or try something like everest, or pcwizard to tell you the model.

 

Onboard soundcards always suck
Try x-fi xtreme audio expresscard.

 

You aint gonna get low latency with the onboard sigmatel chip. The drivers have no ASIO support and WDM latency is huge.

 

There's no chip in it. It just uses your processor. You might as well just get the hi-definition software.

 

Well...my device manager just shows "Sigmatel High Definition CODEC" and no soundcard specifics. So what Zahn had stated could be true. ;-)
I also have the Soundblaster Audigy Software Edition installed but all that amounted to nothing....except for me buying a M-Audio Firewire Solo to make everything work.
(I still would like to see a lower latency with a better driver though.)

 

Low latency just aint gonna happen on a laptop onboard soundcard with WDM drivers. For low latency you need ASIO or other low latency driver system.

How are you finding the M-Audio with the 1530? How does it work with the (presumably) Ricoh firewire chipset? Still in the market for a decent audio firewire solution (liking the Echo AudioFire 2) but hesitant because of the known imcompatibilities with a lot of firewire chips (most pro firewire hardware likes Texas Instruments).

 

SteveJonesy,

even with ASIO Vista is quite a bit pickier than XP was. I have a Stealthplug as well which I now need to plug in first, start the control panel, then my sequencer software to be able to use it. In XP the order of the first two didn't really matter.

The M-Audio works great with my M1530. I haven't found any latency recording some (poor ) guitar playing. I was a little hesitant because nobody in the forum.cakewalk.com Gear section could confirm it would work and most said one needs to have a TI chipset. But then I saw that M-Audio had just released a new Vista 32-bit driver on Jan 11th and therefore I thought I could give it a try. If you decide to buy that one just follow all installation steps pointed out on their website.

 

Cool - good to know. Gonna have to bite the bullet sometime and get a decent audio solution with this. Wanna see how much VST action this system can handle.