Hi, I promise I've done some rummaging to get the answers but I'm still unsure about a few things. I have a general purpose laptop which I use for making music/noise with Live. It works very well but with one niggle.
I have two options in Live's audio section. MME/DirectX or ASIO. Now ordinarily I would use the ASIO option (via ASIO4All) without question but unfortunatley when I do use it Live commandeers the sound chip and if I want to listen to music, a podcast, watch Youtube or whatever I have to shut Live down. Not a massive burden but annoying nevertheless. I'm assuming this is because the onboard sound (Realtek something or other) isn't fully duplex. This doesn't happen with the DirectX option - but then latency becomes an issue.
So, would a cheap audio interface be the solution? Or as I have no external instruments would an external sound card suffice? Are they the same thing? And how can I tell if they are fully duplex before buying them? And how would I get Live to use the AuI or EXT card rather than the onboard chip?
Example, this came up first at Amazon....
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sweex-7-1-Exter ... sound+card
....is this what I need or am I barking up the wrong tree?
Thanks for any help.
Audio Interface questions.
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- KVRAF
- 4076 posts since 28 Jan, 2011 from MEXICO
No, each audio interafce driver handles diferently this problem, some can, some others dont.
I think you will have to search which audio interfaces in fact can "share" their audio driver with other apps.
I think you will have to search which audio interfaces in fact can "share" their audio driver with other apps.
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- KVRAF
- 3071 posts since 29 Sep, 2005
Live can share the audio device so the problem lies in your sound card. It sounds like it is not full duplex. An outboard device is your best solution.Lixma wrote:Hi, I promise I've done some rummaging to get the answers but I'm still unsure about a few things. I have a general purpose laptop which I use for making music/noise with Live. It works very well but with one niggle.
I have two options in Live's audio section. MME/DirectX or ASIO. Now ordinarily I would use the ASIO option (via ASIO4All) without question but unfortunatley when I do use it Live commandeers the sound chip and if I want to listen to music, a podcast, watch Youtube or whatever I have to shut Live down. Not a massive burden but annoying nevertheless. I'm assuming this is because the onboard sound (Realtek something or other) isn't fully duplex. This doesn't happen with the DirectX option - but then latency becomes an issue.
So, would a cheap audio interface be the solution? Or as I have no external instruments would an external sound card suffice? Are they the same thing? And how can I tell if they are fully duplex before buying them? And how would I get Live to use the AuI or EXT card rather than the onboard chip?
Example, this came up first at Amazon....
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sweex-7-1-Exter ... sound+card
....is this what I need or am I barking up the wrong tree?
Thanks for any help.
Modern cards (sound interfaces) will be full duplex and you should be able to determine this in the specs of the card at the manufacture website.
Before buying a card though you may want to investigate if your current card has these properties.
In effort to assist here is a page from Gateway products that shows how to check. I'm sure it will be the same process on your laptop:
http://support.gateway.com/s/Sound/shar ... xtst.shtml
HTH
Happy Musiking!
dsan