Line6Miller,

thanks for the update. I'll install the driver today, have a play with this in cubase ande let you know my results.

Cheers,

Hi champion,

I have installed the driver - no initial change immediately, both in pod farm and gearbox to my DAW, and that is after removing/reinstalling driver.

I have reinstalled my OS, DAW and software, to alleviate any residual driver files, next up is pod farm - i'll be playing with this pretty heavily today so i can give you my best feedback on the new driver version and how it works with my workflow.

thanks for your help mate and for the follow up, i'll post as soon as i can to help out the community \m/

hi Line6miller,

that's cool mate, i'm looking into this moreso today as well. As a start, last night i:

uninstalled all my chipset drivers (Intel P55 chipset), uninstalled all toneport drivers, then did the reverse - updated all chipset/USB drivers (i have 3 separate USB controllers on-board), updated line6 drivers, installed pod farm..still these problems.

i actually thought i had it at one point, but then monitoring the wet signal through cubase for another 15 minutes and this issue came up again. i'm sure it's not my DAWs themselves, all other variations of the drivers work (directx and wdm within the cubase settings).

Honestly mate, as a workaround for the meantime, i'm running the latest asio4all drivers as a test, and while theres' still some 'ghosting' with the monitored signal, i'm getting a clear stream of samples.

 

  That burst of white noise historically has been contributed to certain chip set issues. Common driver issues will pop and click but not discharge white noise.

 

  Take a look at this FAQ to see what I mean:

 

  http://line6.com/community/docs/DOC-4282

 

  I think in your case (and this is rare)you may want to try a PCMCIA USB card on your computer. i've had to do this with an old DEll Desktop I had and it worked beautifully.

 

  What's odd is that this driver has improved performance on so many others' iCore machines.

 

the odd thing is, i've been trying the toneport on the additional usb controllers on my mobo (extra USB chipsets not pertaining to the P55 chipset), but with you're help mate, we're getting closer to sorting this out. I might try and purchase an internal controller today.

I'll keep you posted mate on how this goes, but you're being really helpful - i'm scouring the net for an answer on this!

Hi dude,

I wish I could show you a demonstration of the issue. It is purely an ASIO streaming issue, nothing more. ASIO4ALL drivers are working perfectly.

The bursts of static i experience can be stopped briefly (once playback is stopped in my DAW), but either stopping/restarting playback or by resetting/changing the ASIO device. All DirectX/WDM functions of the device work as expected in the OS, it is only affecting ASIO perfrormance. The main thing that bugs me is that changes to the buffer settings don't do anything to affect this problem, as it honestly should, IMO.

When i switch to ASIO4ALL drivers i get a 6ms latency setting, using a buffer size of 256 samples. The massive difference between latencies in driver versions (using a buffer size of 256 samples in the UX1 ASIO settings would give me at least 15ms, almost 3 times the amount of latency between the 2 drivers) lead me to think that with the OS version i am using, the device is not actually streaming ASIO data as it should, and not really operating as a low latency ASIO device at all. I am unclear at the moment, but research points that this may only be an issue with Windows 7 and it's hardware abstraction layers, but i'm looking into this.

Effectively i'm also running a dedicated (although on-board) USB hub (an NEC chip), and the UX1 is the only connected device.

I've been in Information Technology, specifically Network/Infrastructure and Device support, so i have a background of troubleshooting these issues personally - but this has still got me scratching my head. This issue is only affecting ASIO streaming performance, so it leads me to believe this is a driver-only issue (using a 3rd party driver works as it should, flawlessly almost) - also, USB streaming performance issues as experienced by a large part of the windows 7 community does not have much bearing with my issue - system/media performance using WDM/DirectX drivers works nicely with no problems. Monitoring the ASIO signal in my DAW, but using the DirectX/WDM drivers plays back audio with no problems.

For the meantime i am okay using ASIO4ALL as the driver setting in my DAW to use the UX1.

I want to purchase/upgrade to POD Farm 2 & the metal/FX packs to try some presets i have borrowed from the line6 community, but all these issues experienced have me concerned. Some of the demo's i have heard from the metal packs are astounding, so i want to get to work asap..I really hope this issue can be clarified/identified soon \m/

Thanks for all your help and info mate - let me know if there's any more info i can give to help out with this issue, but for now you're doing a great job with communicating this with me, and i appreciate your help

Hi Line6Perry,

thanks for your great message mate. I will look into this, i may have the opportunity to test the unit with a different, older machine, an old Dell Opti machine i can get my hands on, but it may take some time. I think this machine has a WinXP OS also, so to my mind this would be a good test platform to confirm.

As soon as i have any results i'll post them here so you guys know the story