ASIO: Difference between revisions

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ASIO is a method of directing unmodified sound data to a sound card. The sound card must have a driver capable of accepting ASIO output.

For Vista and above, you may also consider using WASAPI.

ASIO4ALL is a publicly available driver that accepts ASIO output and converts it to Kernel Streaming.

MC playback options must be set to use ASIO.

Here's a thread that may help.

If you experience stuttering problems with ASIO, try changing this setting (introduced in 14.0.48):

NEW: Added new ASIO option 'Use large hardware buffers (recommended to prevent stutter)' that uses the maximum hardware buffer size instead of the default buffer size, which should help alleviate any stuttering issues. (smaller buffers are only desirable in latency sensitive applications like synthesizers)

Also, consider a search on Interact.

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-ASIO is a method of directing unmodified sound data to a sound card.  For Vista and above, please use [http://wiki.jrmediacenter.com/index.php/WASAPI WASAPI].
+ASIO is a method of directing unmodified sound data to a sound card.  The sound card must have a driver capable of accepting ASIO output.
+For Vista and above, you may also consider using [http://wiki.jrmediacenter.com/index.php/WASAPI WASAPI].
-[http://www.asio4all.com/ ASIO4ALL] is a publicly available driver.
+[http://www.asio4all.com/ ASIO4ALL] is a publicly available driver that accepts ASIO output and converts it to Kernel Streaming.
-The sound card must be capable of processing ASIO output.
 MC playback options must be set to use ASIO.
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 Here's [http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=49633.msg339735#msg339735 a thread] that may help.
-If you experience problems, please try changing this setting (introduced in 14.0.48):
+If you experience stuttering problems with ASIO, try changing this setting (introduced in 14.0.48):
 * NEW: Added new ASIO option 'Use large hardware buffers (recommended to prevent stutter)' that uses the maximum hardware buffer size instead of the default buffer size, which should help alleviate any stuttering issues. (smaller buffers are only desirable in latency sensitive applications like synthesizers)