M-Audio Delta Audiophile 24/96

I purchased this card because it was affordable and it and it allowed me to connect both my Midi controller (before usb midi controllers were popular) as well as my turn table. I use this card for music production and a little armature vocal recording (thought I was a vocalist at the time). I was tempted to use it for other instruments but never really enjoyed using 1/4 to RCA connections. I mean I've done them here and there and just had bad results but I've heard good results as well.

UTILIZATION

When I used this audio card the drivers were stable M audio has updated the drivers since the release of the original. For the best possible experience with this maudio card I would suggest installing ASIO4ALL drivers as well. I don't remember exactly how much latency I encountered with this card I do remember that whatever latency i did experience wasn't enough to hurt my music creating experience especially with the use of ASIO4ALL..

I used a few different applications with this card.

Reason
Cubase
Ableton live
Sonar

Mostly reason but I had to run over to the daws and record my vinyl records from my turntable because at this point and time reason didn't record audio.

GETTING STARTED

I didn't run into any compatibility issues I did however run into a driver issue but that was my fault because I installed an older version of the driver then tried to install an updated version of the drivers over the older driver. So what must be done is uninstall the old drivers before installing the new drivers (just to be safe). The configuration for the card is simple and easy to adjust/reconfigure. The manual is very easy to follow and understand, basic but easy to understand none the least

OVERALL OPINION

I wish this card had more I/Os and or option I/O connections. I feel the sound quality was more than sufficient,it got the job done and it got the job done well (very well). I think the card was fairly price just wish it had a few more bells and whistles but fairly priced. The only other cards I've had experiences with before this was gaming sound cards primarily "Sound Blaster". Knowing what I know now I'd go with a higher quality USB or fire wire interface but back then they weren't an option so had to work with what was available

Top notch sound card. Absolute corker. Latency down to 4ms with buffer reductions. Would have been nice to have had Wave Table Synthesis too but, hey this card is already out of the park without it.

Price paid

£149

UTILIZATION

Fire and forget. Jet fighter talk but, seriously - open your machine - pop it in - load the drivers disk and get on with your music.

GETTING STARTED

Faultless - no issues.

OVERALL OPINION

24bit 96Khz if the host software supports it. No pops clicks etc in Cubase VST, Pro Tools, Fruity, Music Studio 7, Orion, Gigastudio, Unity and so on. Have not hit one snag yet and I don't think I will.

Should have bought one sooner.

Originally posted on FutureProducers.com
Posted by: Unknown ( 5-, 2002)

Very satisfied. nothing's missing.

Price paid

$280 CAN

UTILIZATION

Installed perfectly, no problems. Patchbay/Routing is a little confusing at first, but simple enough...

GETTING STARTED

Standard quality sound card. I wouldn't drop a bowling ball on it, but it's not going to break from pulling it out/putting it in.

OVERALL OPINION

Sound quality is amazing. records cleanly, softsynths sound great.

i love this card. best investment i've made in a long time.

Originally posted on FutureProducers.com
Posted by: Unknown ( 7-, 2002)

The Audiophile is real nice.. Had me a little confused on some things inside the configuration of it, but we figured it out, found out what everything meant and went from there.

Price paid

$150.00

UTILIZATION

Had us confused at first, and to us everything was kind of given to you without a good explanation of everything, but it wasn't too hard to figure out. But its easy now

GETTING STARTED

I contacted Customer Support one time, and I had a response in some hours.

OVERALL OPINION

Real Satisfied with the quality this soundcard produces. Since for the moment we only work with Movies,Rap,and R&B but it seems like the audiophile should fit any type of genre of music.

WE LIKE THE SOUNDCARD ALOT!!! Not much to say after that.

Originally posted on FutureProducers.com
Posted by: Unknown (January 1-, 2003)