I think Noel mentioned something about improved support for HD audio in the fine print thread - I assume he's talking about HD onboard chips.
In any event, with proper drivers it should still be possible to use such devices at reasonable latencies. however, the quality of the componentry (clock, etc.) is, of course, still consumer grade. The specs of those chips aren't bad in terms of capability, with high sample rate support, spdif, etc. 24-bit, up to 192kHz, multichannel surround, etc. It means capable of supporting hi-def output for hi-def DVD (Blu Ray, HD DVD, etc.) playback. Take the good advice of the others and get a good solid current audio interface. It works great for that but its not ideally suited to digital audio production. what does that mean? Its a $0.50 sound chip meant for Media player and games. This thread a bit further down the forum tonight might get you on the right track Rick, at the time of my writing the thread has developed a bit more than yours, and its all related to onboard soundcards Let us know a bit more about your current driver for the onboard soundcard and let's see if we can't offer you some help to optimise what you have currently, but really, a quality audio interface IMO should be the next step for you. There are loads of options for you out there, depending on budget and usage, either Firewirw or USB connected. Also you need to use either an ASIO or WDM driver to get best practical latency out of any soundcard, you don't say what driver you are currently using. The quality of the D/A and A/D converters in most if not all laptop onboard soundcards will be nothing like the quality needed, particularly for recording.
You have a first class software DAW application in Sonar, and you really need a quality soundcard / audio interface to do it justice. Your query comes up every so often, and to save beating about the bush, your final statement, "I'm wondering if it is just the sound card" is in fact, alomst certainly correct.
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Question Choppy Audio from an Yamaha MG10XU Question Can you listen to tv and computer at same time through a headset? Some Bison webcam drivers for Acer computers might also work. PS: XP SP2 can operate the webcam on it's own, but the 32-bit Vista driver originally supplied installs fine on 32-bit XP. It's Packard Bell who've let us down, helping Microsoft tie specific machines to a particular operating system. Maybe Conexant have specific drivers for custom laptop cards with the venice-type chip now, but I doubt it - they only supply the chips.
Search t'internet for 64-bit XP drivers for the Conexant Venice soundchip and install as above (Windows won't match it to the device) and you should have a result.
You will need to upgrade from XP SP2 to SP3 first, or install the Update for HD Sound, so Windows can see the Southbridge. I also use this XP driver for Server 2003 - works fine. It won't notice the optical capabilities of the dual jack but at least you get analogue sound under XP.
It shows up as "Conexant High Definition Audio-Venice 5045" in device manager. exe) and choose the driver manually ('have disk' etc., then insist on the driver despite XP's protests). You have to extract the contents somewhere (it won't work if you run the. However, any other Conexant Venice driver you can find should work just as well. It's a Packard Bell driver for another machine, probably still available on their website. Never tried 64-bit XP but the following should give you a clue:įor 32-bit XP on the Packard Bell Easynote SJ51-B-007, I've been using the Conexant Venice 5045 driver with no problems for 3 years.