Well... I've just downloaded the Asio4all driver and I'm 'in state of nerves':/It is not working on my computer. I tried to use it in Cubase VST, but there is no sound. In its control panel there are no devices specified. Please, help me. My sound card is SOUND BLASTER 1024 LIVE! I need this driver, becouse latency is rather small (prior to the original ASIO drivers... You know what I mean :/)

did you open its control panel?

Of course I did I'm going to write more detailed message. So when I tried (once more) to change default ASIO drivers to Asio4all drivers, Cubase prompted message. It was something like 'Imprompt (I don't know is that right word) shut down, audio disabled'..... What does it mean?

Which versions of windows are you running ?98 ?XP?
In order to work, ASIO4ALL need a soundcard which already got WDM drivers....

counterfeit wrote:

Which versions of windows are you running ?98 ?XP? In order to work, ASIO4ALL need a soundcard which already got WDM drivers....

Another issue is that SB's run at 48K but not 44.1K, you have to make sure that's what's set on the ASIO4all control panel.

If I remember right, ASIO4all can re-sample down to 44.1.

Doug

Try to check the 'force WDM driver to 16-bits' option in the control panel, maybe that helps.

arguru wrote:

Try to check the 'force WDM driver to 16-bits' option in the control panel, maybe that helps.

Thanks, that was the other option that I couldn't remember. I don't think I needed it on my Audigy, but I did on my laptop (SigmaTel - worse than Crystal Audio, if that's possible!)

Doug

For your SB Live there are better drivers: kxproject at www.kxproject.com or http://kxproject.spb.ru/intro.php

More stable, lower latency and SF2 compatibility

Pookie Hooten wrote:

Of course I did I'm going to write more detailed message. So when I tried (once more) to change default ASIO drivers to Asio4all drivers, Cubase prompted message. It was something like 'Imprompt (I don't know is that right word) shut down, audio disabled'..... What does it mean?

The message you would have got reads "Improper shutdown detected. Audio disabled...<blah blah>" and is part of the crash recovery mechanism that is new in v2.

What this means is just that: Your audio application did not terminate properly the last time by either crashing or being shut down using Task Manager to kill the process. This does not necessarily have something to do with ASIO4ALL, it's just a safety measure to make sure you can start up your app at all after some wild A4A Control Panel tweaking _if_ this was the reason for the crash.

If A4A wasn't the reason for the crash, all you need to do is open the A4A Control Panel and close it without changing anything.

Having said that, if you open up the A4A control panel inside the audio settings of your application, what would you see in the device list (left side?) It's all about green and red bangs now, except when the device list is empty, in which case you have no WDM driver for your audio card.

erminardi wrote:

For your SB Live there are better drivers: kxproject at www.kxproject.com or http://kxproject.spb.ru/intro.php More stable, lower latency and SF2 compatibility

I second this, the KX project have had a long time to develop drivers for the emu chips that the "Creative" cards use. With a SBlive in a reasonably modern computer ie; anything above the 1ghz mark you can attain latency of 3-5 ms, it also enables realtime fx on the card. A much better proposition that ASIO4all whch is only really of use if your card isn't supported at all by anyone.

erminardi wrote:

For your SB Live there are better drivers: kxproject at www.kxproject.com or http://kxproject.spb.ru/intro.php More stable, lower latency and SF2 compatibility

I tried them once, but at that time (2 years ago?) they were rather "hackish"... I felt they'd be fine for a music machine, but I didn't like them for a general purpose machine that was just occasionally used for music.

I'm sure they've improved by now

Doug

Since 3 years I´m using with my SBLive the Asio driver which was included in Cubase 5. I´m getting a latency of 11 ms without any problems. No installation is necessary, only one file has to be copied. You can download it here (instructions how to use it are included).

http://home.t-online.de/home/pegasus-wtal/Tips/asio.zip