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>> http://www.asio4all.com/
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>> Works a treat.
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> Mmm, nice. (Not quite sure how adding more processing can make it do
> *faster*, but anyway...)
My understanding is that it bypasses all the standard Windows APIs, buffers,
sound card drivers and sample rate converter gumpf and just accesses the
ADC/DAC directly (somehow). I must admit I didn't look much into it, just
installed it and it worked very well.
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>> Mmm, nice. (Not quite sure how adding more processing can make it do
>> *faster*, but anyway...)
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> My understanding is that it bypasses all the standard Windows APIs,
> buffers, sound card drivers and sample rate converter gumpf and just
> accesses the ADC/DAC directly (somehow).
You need the sound card drivers or you won't know *how* to access the
ADC. But maybe it buffers the data differently or something, IDK.
> I must admit I didn't look
> much into it, just installed it and it worked very well.
Well, that's the main thing, eh? ;-)
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> You need the sound card drivers or you won't know *how* to access the ADC.
> But maybe it buffers the data differently or something, IDK.
According to Wikipedia the main benefit is from bypassing the Windows mixer
software, which I assume introduces significant latency. Apparently this
was improved for Vista, but I still noticed huge latency on my Vista machine
before I used ASIO.
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scott wrote:
>> You need the sound card drivers or you won't know *how* to access the
>> ADC. But maybe it buffers the data differently or something, IDK.
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> According to Wikipedia the main benefit is from bypassing the Windows
> mixer software, which I assume introduces significant latency.
> Apparently this was improved for Vista, but I still noticed huge latency
> on my Vista machine before I used ASIO.
Seems plausible.
I've also seem a lot of "sound drivers" which also install shedloads of
user-mode GUI fanciness for applying effect filters and EQ adjustments
and so on...
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