Low latency out-of-the-box (without ASIO4ALL) on Windows

[YellowNoiseAudio]

On Windows, ASIO4ALL is very useful to have low-latency, for example for a laptop's built-in soundcard.

But the major drawback is that once ASIO4ALL is used in Ableton, you cannot play music in Youtube in Firefox, you cannot play music with Media Player, you cannot edit a sound in SoundForge, etc. : ASIO4ALL is not multiclient.

Thus:

Feature request: it would be interesting to have low latency out-of-the-box, without ASIO4ALL.
This is now possible thanks to Win10's WASAPI, and Reaper users seem to be happy with that: low latency, out of the box, without ASIO4ALL.

But unfortunately it is not supported in Live.

Feature request: could you enable WASAPI for Live?

It shouldn't be so difficult, since most audio I/O libraries nowadays support WASAPI as well as ASIO (http://www.portaudio.com/, etc.).

[YellowNoiseAudio]

Yes / no ?

[Richie Witch]

Sorry, but your information is incorrect. You *can* play Live, Media Player, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc all at the same time with ASIO4ALL. You probably have your Windows soundcard settings incorrect.

To fix this, open your soundcard properties in the system tray and check your sample rate. In Windows, it is 44.1k by default. If Ableton Live is set to 48k (which is typical), you will not be able to run Live and other sound sources at the same time. As soon as you reset your soundcard default to the same sample rate that Live is using, it should all work just fine.