• Get involved.
    We want your input!
    Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.

    After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
    If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.

    After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
    https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/

    Thanks in advance and have fun!
    RadioDiscussions Administrators

Sound Card For Adobe Audition

S

speakerman

What experience have you folks had with Adobe Audition on XP with various sound cards or Firewire adapters. I'm looking at the M-Audio Delta 44 http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Delta44-main.htmlfor some small production room editing stations. I'll likely use Dell Core 2 Duo boxes. Balanced in/out would be preferred so I don't have to add transformer interfaces.

I know some companies offer much better support with drivers and also tend to be more widely compatible with various sound programs. Talk in the recent automation sound card thread has me concerned about M-Audio as a choice.

Cost is an issue as I need to rubber stamp 8 rooms.
 
I'm using a 44 with Audiition 2.0 and have no problems. I'd expect that would also be the case with 3.0. Just be sure to get the latest drivers from M-Audio.

You might want to also post your question on R-I's Production board - there's a lot of Audition users there.
 
I use an M-Audio Delta 1010 (8 channels Balanced analog I/O plus SPDIF). For basic output use (streaming audio, basic monitoring) I use SB Audigy2 using the KX Audio Drivers http://www.kxproject.com which allows for virtual plugins including virtual audio chains. The outputs of each card are ported to separate channels on the console. The setup works wonderfully, once you work out the latency issues with the 1010, which appears to be caused by hardware conflicts. Took a lot of card-swapping to get rid of the glitches on the 1010.

-A
 
As far as fidelity and compatibility goes, I've had great results with the Card Deluxe by Digital Audio Labs. Those things have been made for years and are absolute rocks. They are PCI cards - so no dongles to futz with. Audio quality is exceptional. I have them in every Audition workstation we have (6) - no problems at all. They also co-habitate with other peripherals without an issue. One thing to be wary of: they use balanced TRS connectors to keep the real estate within a PCI slot; so there technically isn't enough space to plug (4) Neutrik NP3C 1/4" plugs into them. I have one machine where I forced the issue - it still works fine, but I live in fear that a solder joint or plastic piece will crack some day. So, you might want to use the x-series of Neutrik 1/4" plugs there. If you need AES i/o, they make a daughter card that isn't PCI, but uses an adjacent opening. It jumps over to the main card via a ribbon cable.
-D
 
I’m running two computers with Adobe Audition 3 and one with Cool Edit Pro. All three use the Digital Audio Labs “Card Deluxe” however I do find that Audition will run with most any sound card.
 
Audition should work well with any soundcard. I've still got 1.0 running with a USB Creative Labs Exigy in a home studio.

The M-Audio Delta cards are great. We're using them on-air. We've had OS issues, but never sound-card issues.
 
I have 2 contract stations that we are using the M-audio cads in Dell's - set up took a little patience but they work great.
 
I originally looked at the Focusrite Saffire http://www.focusrite.com/products/saffire/saffire/ but decided the external stuff was too much trouble to deal with. I also don't need mic preamp inputs.

1/4" plugs are definitely not my favorite connectors however the Switchcraft parts are pretty good. You just have to keep them de-oxed with Cramolin.

Thanks for the good feedback.
 
At had some real issues with the SoundBlastr X-Fi Xtream card and Audition 3.0. Stuttering etc..
Downloaded the free ASIO4ALL driver (asio4all.com), checked the "Allways resample 44.1 <-> 48 KHz" box and it's working good.
You can laugh at or ignore the political comment in the control panel.
 
I've had pretty good luck with Echo MIA sound cards. PCI slot and 1/4" balanced Tip, Ring & Sleeve.
About $130 at most mail order catalogs.
 
The card needed really depends on the quality of audio needed. If your working with a station that is running linear audio to complete an HD audio chain, then you need to spend money on cards that are digital. Even if they plan to go that direction soon. If you just need analog quality and you air MP3 or even MPEG2 compresion ratio files then even the Sound Blaster audio cards work great. I have those running in lots of stations in secondary production rooms. For primary production/voice track rooms I am running Audio Science cards.
 
Status
This thread has been closed due to inactivity. You can create a new thread to discuss this topic.


Back
Top Bottom