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RiotNrrd Platinum Member
Joined: 21 Jan 2002 Posts: 1853 Location: Portland Oregon Metro Area
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Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 8:01 am Post subject: |
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Finally got around to trying out 2.6. It's a LOT better. It managed to cut my already reduced latency in half. So, whereas I was running around 640 samples, now I can get by with around 300.
The first version was pretty good. But this guy just keeps making it better and better. I'm curious to see if he'll figure out some way of reducing it even further (I'm not betting on it - there's got to be a point where it's just as good as it can get). |
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baldo Senior Member
Joined: 01 May 2002 Posts: 327 Location: missouri USA
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Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 3:32 pm Post subject: |
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i was surprised that the sound quality also seemed to improve.
did you notice an improvement in audio quality? _________________ character is what you do when no one is watching |
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RiotNrrd Platinum Member
Joined: 21 Jan 2002 Posts: 1853 Location: Portland Oregon Metro Area
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Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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I only played with the new driver for a little while, so I didn't notice an improvement in sound - without playing something with 2.5 and then immediately with 2.6 (back to back) it is too difficult for me to compare them. And I uninstalled 2.5 prior to installing 2.6. However, I wouldn't be surprised if there was an increase in sound quality as well. Each new version of this driver amazes me. |
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baldo Senior Member
Joined: 01 May 2002 Posts: 327 Location: missouri USA
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Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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so you have noticed audio / sound quality improvement w/prior releases? _________________ character is what you do when no one is watching |
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yamaha135 Senior Member
Joined: 12 Sep 2003 Posts: 476 Location: Ohio, USA
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Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 4:04 am Post subject: |
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can someone explain to me what ASIO is? I understand its drivers for soundcards, but why would one need other drivers than the ones that came with the card?
Sounds like it is useful, but i dont know anything about it. Can someone enlighten me? _________________ -Triton Classic 61
-Triton Extreme 88
-Yamaha Motif6
-Hammond M3
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RiotNrrd Platinum Member
Joined: 21 Jan 2002 Posts: 1853 Location: Portland Oregon Metro Area
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Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 5:07 am Post subject: |
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The drivers that came with my card suck. The best latency I can get is around 45 ms with those drivers, and that's pushing it.
Contrast that with the 6 ms latency I get with ASIO4ALL. The difference between 45 ms and 6 ms is a really big deal! |
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beanstalk40 Platinum Member
Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 1445
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Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 11:58 am Post subject: |
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Yammy... ASIO lets you play/record audio on your compuer in realtime... i.e. there is no noticeable lag from the time you trigger the midi/auido event till when you actually hear it from your monitors...
Else, as Riot has mentioned there is a noticeable lag... 45ms... I would find it quite tough to work with that kind of timelag...
It is very useful for playing softsynths as well as for recording audio parts...
Prash |
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JohnnyAardvark Platinum Member
Joined: 25 May 2004 Posts: 1020 Location: UK
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Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 12:17 pm Post subject: |
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Just to follow this up (Prash is spot on with his definition of latency which ASIO drivers (for windows, there is an equivelent for mac ?????) help to alleviate)....
Not sure if you all know about this but you can use google to find definitions of things for you. Type Define and <Word> and let google do the rest. Sometimes its very good (other times so, so...)
ASIO = Audio Stream Input/Output
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http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&oi=defmore&q=define:ASIO
regards
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phillipthorne Full Member
Joined: 11 Oct 2004 Posts: 212 Location: Bristol UK
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
I've just had a small problem with Sonar and my MOTU sound card and have been talking with guys on the Cakewalk forum about solutions. The subject of ASIO drivers came up because I was using ASIO4ALL after seeing the recommendation here. I got this reply to one discussion on ASIO4ALL
" ASIO is one of the good things that came out of Steinberg- it's there because some software packages require it (Nuendo, eg). Before the existence of the WDM/KS (Kernel Streaming windows drivers, which are supposed to be very fast), the native windows drivers barely worked. ASIO was implemented on windows to give audio hardware a 'more direct' line of sight to the audio hardware. The KS drivers are much much better than the old windows MME drivers are, but I personally find the ASIO drivers more stable, at least for MOTU gear.
ASIO4ALL basically "wraps" an ASIO layer around very well coded calls to the existing WDM driver, so even with ASIO4ALL, you're still actually using the WDM driver.
Switching to the MOTU ASIO driver should yield some latency and performance improvements."
Thought I'd share it with you.
Kind regards
Phillip _________________ Be realistic - plan for a miracle |
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RiotNrrd Platinum Member
Joined: 21 Jan 2002 Posts: 1853 Location: Portland Oregon Metro Area
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Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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It's probably safe to say that if you have ASIO drivers for your equipment already, ASIO4ALL probably doesn't add anything. It's really for those of us with equipment that doesn't have ASIO drivers available where it really shines. It's possible that if ASIO drivers were released for the Soundblaster Extigy (for example) by the manufacturer that they would be better than ASIO4ALL. But they haven't and the only drivers available are sloooooooow. ASIO4ALL is a godsend in that regard.
But if you have a MOTU and you have MOTU ASIO drivers, I would definitely choose them over the ASIO4ALL driver, as they are likely to take advantage of the equipment in ways that a more generic driver like ASIO4ALL probably cannot. |
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Dr.InnoVation Full Member
Joined: 14 Jul 2007 Posts: 193 Location: Deep Southern California
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Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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Hello I'm retarded...
I have an 002 rack, and I am trying to use it as a sound card instead of the sound card on the motherbooard....
I want to use it with Cakewalk Pro Audio 9.0 but my sound control panel only sees it as a playback device? it sees it as an output but not an input. Can the Asio4all help me in this regard? I have already Downloaded the current drivers on the Digi website but it doesn't fix the problem. _________________ Keyboards: TritonExtreme88 Tweaked beyond all Recognition!
(Now available!)
Kurzweil K2600XS
SoundClick Page: http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=868853 |
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ellll Platinum Member
Joined: 09 Dec 2004 Posts: 3118 Location: Panama City, FL
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Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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Help the guy(s) that asked what you were talkin about..
Or at least give 'em a hint for use...
Johnny |
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cardboardcorn
Joined: 19 Aug 2010 Posts: 19
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Posted: Thu Aug 19, 2010 6:53 pm Post subject: |
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ASIO for the WIN it should be simple to use. Just disable wavetable synth and use this as default sound driver _________________ Check out my guide and Review on why you should buy the Korg Kaoss pad 3
Click and read that for the cheapest price guaranteed. :] |
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iixorbiusii Full Member
Joined: 30 Aug 2008 Posts: 198
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Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 12:12 pm Post subject: |
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Reason 5 now down to ~7ms here
Nice!
Thanks for sharing!
iix. _________________ CURRENT GEAR: A yellowing Casio PT-80, 4 leaking batteries and some broken headphones.
WISHLIST: A PSU and some different headphones. |
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paul59539
Joined: 24 Nov 2013 Posts: 3
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Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 4:18 pm Post subject: |
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It is working really good on my pc. Thanks for the post... |
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