Sibelius 7 Sound / ASIO4ALL / Latency Woes

Hello all.

 

I am at my wits end.

 

I have Sibelius 7 on our Music PCs. These are hand build AMD Phenom 2 4 core with 8GB of RAM and solid state running 7 SP1 x64. These have all been deployed with an identical image with ASIO4ALL installed. Students use midi keyboards to do whatever they do.

 

I installed ASIO4ALL as it helped with latency issues on our older machines. However, after imaging the machines, no sound is outputted when sibelius loads (and ASIO4ALL runs). Some machines, ASIo4all doesnt run, and sound is outputted, but ith latency.

 

Can somone recommed an alternative ? Or a sound card, or some ideas as to fix the issue. Anyone in the south wales area ?

 

I am desperate

We had a similar issue and solved it by getting dedicated sound cards that support ASIO

 

We settled for

 

Sound Blaster X-Fi Extreme Audio Card with X-Fi Crystalizer

 

And installed the ASIO stuff for it - can't remember off the top of my head but I'll ask one of my staff that set ours up.

Similar issues here back in the day, we (well, before my time) bought Tascam external devices for it. Can't see a need on anything modern though, they need restarting a lot but they do provide a convenient means of input/output connection.

Thanks guys.

 

I have found this, dont know if it is the same one:

Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio Soundcard - OEM | Ebuyer.com

 

However, the creative website says it does not support ASIO

Creative Weltweite Unterstützung

"Sound Blaster X-Fi series (excluding Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio and external sound cards)"

 

This is on the compatability list. But is more expensive.

Creative Sound Blaster Z OEM Sound Card | Ebuyer.com

 

Any ideas anyone ?

I asked one of my staff he replied;

 

"

The USB keyboards we use are Alesis Q49, the older keyboards we use have a MIDI to USB adaptor.

 

They have Soundblaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio

 

ASIO4ALLv2

1024 Samples @ 44100 Hz

 

Settings

ASIO Buffer Size = 512 Samples

Latency Compensation

In 32 Samples

Out 32 Samples

 

Hardware Buffer (not checked)

Always Resample (checked)

Force WDM Driver to 16 Bit (not checked)

"

 

Hope that helps, if not direct message me and I'll put you in contact with him.