Apple USB-C to 3.5mm jack "Adapter" and ASIO4ALL Driver (on Windows DAWs)

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Hello,

has anyone ever set-up Apple USB-C to 3.5mm jack "Adapter" with ASIO4ALL Driver on Windows (DAWs)?

How good is its behavior/performance (in a DAW) ?

To be more specific, I would like to know how fine the ASIO4ALL Driver (on Windows) interacts with the Cirrus Logic DAC in Apple USB-C to 3.5mm jack device (24bit/48kHz).

If anyone tried this and wants to share any info he/she would be welcome.
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It seems this is a class-compliant USB Audio device, so it basically should just work.

Is it better or worse than whatever headphone jack is built in to a random laptop? Who knows... It surely beats having nothing at all.

Seen it for sale for about the same price as a full fast-food meal and a coffee, so that could be a gamble worth taking.

Asio4All is a hacky solution, but hey... it does great things for the price. So who's complaining?
I think if your DAW supports plain Windows audio (wdm or wasapi) then that's better than asio4all.
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I've used a few usb to 3.5mm interfaces with asio4all, it works great. Stability and latency depends on how powerful your computer is.

I haven't yet tried a usb c one, but they're cheap and expected to be about the same. I have 40 minute songs that I recorded using my old interface and asio4all and it was awesome!

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Unfortunately since Apple, Microsoft (and others in general) don't consider the old great native 3.5 output "fashion" anymore, you *have to* rely on this nice, tiny external DACs. Also, I hope Apple will release a 24bit-192kHz version of it in the near future.
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BertKoor wrote: Tue Nov 07, 2023 8:26 pm Asio4All is a hacky solution, but hey... it does great things for the price. So who's complaining?
I think if your DAW supports plain Windows audio (wdm or wasapi) then that's better than asio4all.
Usually, if one is using a consumer interface with no ASIO drivers, asio4all is better. I'd recommend testing other similar solutions as well, such as https://github.com/dechamps/FlexASIO

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Thank you for the FlexASIO link, completely missed it. And it seems better than ASIO4ALL on the paper.
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