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geoff,

How are you monitoring the output of your sound card?  Are you using an 
external mixer or are you feeding monitors directly from the sound card?
I have a 2496 and use a mixer in my monitor path, which lets me route 
the output of the soundcard to the stereo mix bus of the mixer.  The 
groups of the mixer feed the soundcard and don't feed the stereo bus.
Where I'm going with this is it sounds like you have an internal loop 
there with the output of the card feeding the input.. causing the tinny 
sound.  There is a little delay between the in an out so there isn't 
complete phase cancellation.
Give us a little more info on your system.

BD




geoff wrote:
> Something more specific in the subject may attract more responses....
> 
> geoff
> 
> Doc wrote:
>> Hoping someone with a strong grasp of how things work with an M-Audio
>> Audiophile 2496 can assist.
>>
>> I'm using Cakewalk Home Studio 2. I've using Livesynth Pro DXI synth,
>> which plays SF2 Soundfonts.
>>
>> The process should be to record a midi track which you can hear via
>> the Livesynth Pro output. Then record the output of the Livesynth as
>> an audio file on another audio track.  I'm encountering problems doing
>> this. It seems you should also be able to record the output of the
>> Livesynth real time, but that isn't working out either.
>>
>> Admittedly, I feel a bit of confusion over the options available with
>> the Audiophile 2496 and how they all interact.
>>
>> In an Audio Track in CWHS2 the input options are:
>>
>> Stereo M-Audio Delta AP Multi 1/2
>> Stereo M-Audio Delta AP Multi 3/4
>> Stereo M-Audio Delta AP Multi 5/6
>> Stereo M-Audio Delta AP Multi Mon. Mixer
>> Stereo M-Audio Delta AP 1/2
>> Stereo M-Audio Delta AP Mon. Mixer
>>
>> It's my understanding that the 3/4 & 5/6 options would be applicable
>> with more than 1 Audiophile card installed and as such aren't used in
>> my case.  Under each of these are also individual L & R input options
>> but I'm omitting these and focusing on the stereo options. Also
>> omitted are the S/PDIF options since I'm not using S/PDIF.
>>
>> I'm not clear what the difference is between the options with "Multi"
>> in the name and the ones that don't have it.
>>
>> Output options as they appear are:
>>
>> A (M-Audio Delta AP Multi 1/2)
>> B (M-Audio Delta AP Multi 3/4)
>> C (M-Audio Delta AP 1/2)
>> D (M-Audio Delta AP S/PDIF)
>> E (M-Audio Delta AP Multi 1/2)
>> F (M-Audio Delta AP Multi 3/4)
>> G (M-Audio Delta AP 1/2)
>>
>> Not sure why there are duplications - A & E, B & F, C & G
>>
>> The Patchbay/Router options that appear material to this issue are:
>>
>> WavOut 1/2
>> Monitor Mixer
>> H/W In 1/2
>>
>> On the audio track I'm recording to, the only input setting that
>> allows me to get simultaneous output from the Livesynth and recording
>> on an audio track when playing back a midi file I've already recorded
>> is Stereo M-Audio Delta AP Mon. Mixer.  However the resulting sound
>> has a tinny, "phased" sound to it.  The only way around this seems to
>> be to set the "out" of the audio track to which I'm recording to
>> something that isn't used such as B (M-Audio Delta AP Multi 3/4)
>> during recording and then going back to one of the 1/2 selections for
>> playback.
>>
>> In all cases above, the only way I can hear anything is with either
>> WavOut 1/2 or Monitor Mixer selected on the M-Audio Control Panel.
>> Selecting the H/W In 1/2 option doesn't allow me to hear anything.
>>
>> I have no problems recording audio from an external source going into
>> the line-in, it just seems to be an issue when recording internally
>> like this.
>>
>> Thanks for all input, happy holidays 
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