Running Live kills sound from other apps?

Keithtron · Post by **Keithtron** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:14 am

Ok, so I just got my external sound card, and I love it, but when I tell Live to use its ASIO driver, I can't play any sound from outside the program. Can't play anything in I-Tunes, Windows Media Player, Firefox.... nothing.

Would this be because those outputs don't use ASIO, and when running Live that driver takes over, or something to that effect? When I'm working in Live, I sometimes like to listen to songs from my library as a reference, but it's looking like I can't do that now.....

Is there any workaround for this, or is it just something you have to learn to deal with?

longjohns · Post by **longjohns** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 2:06 pm

kills sound from a different sound card? or just can't share the one card between apps? #2 is to be expected.

yogz · Post by **yogz** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 6:43 pm

tell your configuration: mac or pc, soundcard...

Clearscreen · Post by **Clearscreen** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 1:27 am

asio drivers monopolise the hardware in windows, but directx doesn't meaning that you can play audio from other programs simultaneously. unfortunately the latency ain't so good, but you can do it...

anto · Post by **anto** » Thu May 31, 2007 5:50 pm

i've the same problem: i have an edirol fa66, and while live is running i'm not able to use media players. this is a big problem beacuse i cannot compare mixes. anyone can help?

djgroovy · Post by **djgroovy** » Thu May 31, 2007 6:07 pm

Guys, if you're using Live 6, press the mouse button over the cpu meter.
Live will 'let go' of the driver and you can listen to anything else till you press it again.

laird · Post by **laird** » Thu May 31, 2007 6:16 pm

ooooh thanks for that tip.

I've always just imported a good mix snippet into a track on Live for A/B comparisons, rather than try to open up windows media player

ewistrand · Post by **ewistrand** » Thu May 31, 2007 6:53 pm

Clearscreen wrote:asio drivers monopolise the hardware in windows, but directx doesn't meaning that you can play audio from other programs simultaneously. unfortunately the latency ain't so good, but you can do it...

Not true. There's interfaces with multiclient ASIO drivers for Windows; all of the NI interfaces such as KORE or AK 1 are multiclient, for example.

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anto · Post by **anto** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 7:52 pm

djgroovy wrote:Guys, if you're using Live 6, press the mouse button over the cpu meter.
Live will 'let go' of the driver and you can listen to anything else till you press it again.

thanks a lot, it is not a fast switching (i would hear the different sources without wait a couple of seconds), but it works

djgroovy · Post by **djgroovy** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 11:06 pm

Glad to help

rikhyray · Post by **rikhyray** » Mon Jun 04, 2007 12:12 am

Emu can do that, also Echo, as far as I remember, even the little PCMCIA cards, you have to set the virtual outs