Any alternatives to ASIO4ALL?

[bduffy]

Well, this is an interesting and educational thread. I just tried the asio2ks driver with my Cubase machine at work, and it worked very well; except for some reason it can't see the Darla's inputs at all.

Here's to hoping Vista does improve Windows audio. It'd be nice if MS would finally recognize that musicians use Windows extensively. You can barely find mention of it in even DirectX copy.

[jackson]

Well, this is an interesting and educational thread. I just tried the asio2ks driver with my Cubase machine at work, and it worked very well; except for some reason it can't see the Darla's inputs at all.

Here's to hoping Vista does improve Windows audio. It'd be nice if MS would finally recognize that musicians use Windows extensively. You can barely find mention of it in even DirectX copy.

The Darla probably doesn't have WDM drivers then. Same with my aging soundcard

[bduffy]

Well, this is an interesting and educational thread. I just tried the asio2ks driver with my Cubase machine at work, and it worked very well; except for some reason it can't see the Darla's inputs at all.

Here's to hoping Vista does improve Windows audio. It'd be nice if MS would finally recognize that musicians use Windows extensively. You can barely find mention of it in even DirectX copy.

The Darla probably doesn't have WDM drivers then. Same with my aging soundcard

It supposedly has WDM drivers. Really crappy, never-got-past-beta-because-Echo-can't-wait-to-discontinue-their-products-drivers, that is. Which probably explains it, thanks for pointing that out. The outputs do show up with ASIO4ALL, however.

[Klemperer]

I had tested the Asio2ks drivers long ago, at the time when Asio4all was new. On my laptop with a bad soundcard the Asio2ks was perfect with Orion Platinum, only after 15 minutes occasional bleeps came, every 15 seconds or so. I thought that was a kind of demo-restriction and dropped it, as bleeps you do not want in your music aren't any good . Strangely enough the bleeeeeeps didn't happen if I simply started my PC anew, but who wants to do this every 20 minutes or so.
Never heard of anyone having the same problems with those drivers. They aren't updated since over a year, by the way...

[The Chase]

d/l the demo of cubase or cubasis, and then keep the ASIO that comes with it when you deletel cubase

[bduffy]

d/l the demo of cubase or cubasis, and then keep the ASIO that comes with it when you deletel cubase

Oh man; the ASIO that comes with Cubase is naaa-sty! Absolutely anything I've ever tried works better.

Also, (not to be contrary) there is no demo. At least not officially.

[UnionS8]

And what about this?

[ohm]

and what about this?

AFAIK kxDrivers is an alternative to the drivers that come with your soundcard. Probably worth checking out if you can't get ASIO4All configured to work with your current drivers, and your audio card is "Soundblaster compatible".

[Sascha Franck]

The only problem with ASIO4All over here was (with all machines I tried with) that it produced a more or less drastic and unpredictable audio recording offset.
But then, usually when recording, I'm using a dedicated soundcard anyways.
But, to catch some ideas on the laptop, it'd be highly useful if ASIO4All wouldn't come with that offset. Gonna try the alternate driver later on, thanks for the link, ohm!

[C00kie]

and what about this?

AFAIK kxDrivers is an alternative to the drivers that come with your soundcard. Probably worth checking out if you can't get ASIO4All configured to work with your current drivers, and your audio card is "Soundblaster compatible".

KX Project drivers only work with genuine Creative Soundblaster Live and Audigy cards

[The Chase]

d/l the demo of cubase or cubasis, and then keep the ASIO that comes with it when you deletel cubase

Oh man; the ASIO that comes with Cubase is naaa-sty! Absolutely anything I've ever tried works better.

heh. That's what I did before A4A. Otherwise it was 46 ms with my directsound driver.