Lexicon Omega ASIO blues..

Richard in NZ · 09-02-2007, 05:20 PM

Hi - first post... am in initial stages of trying Reaper out after several years using n-track (which was starting to crash too often). Was going fine, but now having problems with drivers. Using latest Lexicon ASIO driver I can find (c 2004), press play and.... nothing! May be similar to some problems mentioned by others replying to Vicki recently?

WDM alternative keeps giving error messages saying I need to amend the audio prefernces, but its not obvious how!

Yet going back to n-track (which is now behaving itself!!) driver and Omega work fine!

So:

Anyone using an Omega succesfully with Reaper?
Is ASIO4ALL (?) worth a try?
..or have I missed something/ pressed the wrong button?

cheers

Richard

Justin · 09-02-2007, 05:57 PM

I actually had a friends omega for a few days once, trying to get it to work, and I couldn't! The driver was just terrible... how other hosts have it working, I have no idea...

Richard in NZ · 09-03-2007, 08:53 PM

...is that I have got the Omega working with the latest Lexicon ASIO driver. Hurrah! Slightly worrying that I'm not sure how!

First I gave it a good fright by buying TonePort UX1 (which I had a hankering for anyway as my POD2 lacks the magic USB!)...

Then I loaded Gearbox etc and all that worked perfectly straight out of the tin. Line 6 drivers obviously very solid.

Then I rebooted clean, carefully checked device manager to make sure the Omega drivers were enabled, plus....

disabled MSWaveSynth in the MIDI drivers section, as someone had raised this a a possible clash.

Reaper then worked fine with buffers set quite high, in 24 bit.

Reduced buffers to 512 and still ok, then 256 still ok.

So...sorry for false alarm, but my experience may be useful to someone else!

Now I get to try out the TonePort/Gearbox AND Reaper. Neat!

Jidis · 10-05-2007, 10:01 AM

Richard,

Some new version 2 drivers snuck in early this week if you haven't got them already. They say "XP/Vista". On my XPsp2 laptop, I can now run in the low latency end of the CPU fader without the noise I was getting before. Hope they've cleaned things up. That 3rd party driver from usb-audio.com looked promising too, but it's a bit pricey for a driver and you lose the MIDI on the Omega IIRC.

George

Jidis · 10-05-2007, 12:23 PM

Make that "in Nuendo". I tried in Reaper2 just now and got the noise until I took the fader back up around the middle, but I didn't tweak any of the settings. N2 & N1.6 were both clean at the defaults. This was with just a single, mono mic in, with a stereo wave file loaded and playing back simultaneously.