Can't see ASIO DirectX

[admc]

Hello,

I have been using MU.LAB for a while on my old computer, but it was too slow for composing music, so I have bought a new one.

On the old one there was a "DirectX ASIO Full Duplex Driver", or something like this, that worked good with MU.LAB, with my Creative SB Live.

On the new one I can't see this driver under "Audio Setup". Why?
I tried ASIO4ALL, too. It doesn't works: when I configure it to the same SB Live, I hear no sound.

With Audacity, I can use this soundcard and record with it, so it cannot be the problem. But it's not too comfortable to use both programs.

Thank you,
Adam

[MuTools]

On the old one there was a "DirectX ASIO Full Duplex Driver", or something like this, that worked good with MU.LAB, with my Creative SB Live.
On the new one I can't see this driver under "Audio Setup". Why?

This is a driver that comes with steinberg products, iirc.

I tried ASIO4ALL, too. It doesn't works: when I configure it to the same SB Live, I hear no sound.

With Audacity, I can use this soundcard and record with it, so it cannot be the problem. But it's not too comfortable to use both programs.

I think Audicity also works with non-ASIO drivers.

MU.LAB really needs an ASIO driver.

Strange that Asio4All does not work; but i'm no Asio4All expert.

[admc]

Thanks a lot, that was the problem.
I found a free version of Steinberg's ASIO here:

http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/Cubase5_win95/

When I installed and uninstalled it, the ASIO DirectX Full Duplex Driver appeared in MU.LAB.

Now it works as before. But it is still a strange thing, that the recorded track comes a bit later than when recording. I thought before that it was because of the old, slow computer. Maybe that's what is called "latency"? Can I make it better with configuring something?

I don't understand why is this, because it seems to start the recording earlier, when I hear the metronome only. And when using the other soundcard with ASIO4ALL, I hear no delay.

[MuTools]

There's a little bug in 1.1 that causes the audio recordings to be not-latency compensated.

This will be fixed in 2.0.

You could manually finetune this by tweaking the start locator in the audio lab (double-click the audio recording)