we should discuss it here because the "best maximizer" thread aready covers 15 other topics.
I guess we need a Poco childboard.
Allright let me explain what's going on in my setup.
I have a Mac QS 2002,933mhz running Cubase VST.
My audiocard is an Esi Waveterminal U24, running the Ploytec USB Audio Driver.
Powercore PCI is MK1 running at 33mhz in slot 5.
In Cubase VST 5/32 my audio setup is:
24 bit /44.1 khz, Plugin delay compensation on, external audio clock, favor midi-timing on.
The Ploctec USB Audio AISO driver (usb-audio.com) has some basic AISO settings.
From relaxed, normal, fast, to fastest. Normal gives me a latency of 54ms and fast gives me 9ms. I don't use the fastest setting because I want to free some CPU load while working with VSTi's. Generally speaking I am working with the fast setting.
Before I installed my powercore card everything was stable. As soon as I installed my powercore card my audio crashed big time after loading Poco plugins and trying some of the presets. (at random, not while loading) After switching to 16 bit all seemed stable. Second I fooled around with the POCO ADMA buffer. It was set on 1 channel; i've set it to 2 channels to see that would solve my issue. It did but only while using the fast AISO setting on 24bit. In the normal setting; my audio card crashes while using the plugins wich results in a terrible white noise. So it seems the powercore card needs an audio card buffer setting of <1000 samples. I've read about issues with M-audio cards which had the same problem with higher buffer settings (high latency). Or in this case maybe I am missing something or haven't changed a crucial setting?