The New Asio4all v2 is out...

ct43 · Post by **ct43** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 1:43 pm

I was thinking of putting this on to improve the latency of the on board sound on my laptop, I was wondering though, will it mess up my MOTU drivers in anyway??

tylast · Post by **tylast** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 1:48 pm

Not at all...it's an additional driver. You'll still have your original one.

ct43 · Post by **ct43** » Sat Jan 15, 2005 7:37 pm

nice one, ill give it a go in a bit then. Thanks.

tylast · Post by **tylast** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 2:25 am

OK, there's a new version out! It totally stoped Live from crashing for me! You can get it HERE!. You might want wanna subscribe to this thread to track it.

starving student · Post by **starving student** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:45 am

so should you uninstall previous versions or it doesn't matter?

Tyrant · Post by **Tyrant** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:58 am

does using the asio4all driver put more strain on the cpu to speed up the latency?

tylast · Post by **tylast** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 11:55 am

No need to uninstall. It's a separate driver & if you don't like it...no damage done. I'm sure every system will be different in regards to load.

onyxashanti · Post by **onyxashanti** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 2:35 pm

asio is something everyone should at least have installed, even if you don't use it. in a worst case scenario, it's like a patch kit and will make a system that shouldn't work, because of crap drivers, work well. and it a best case scenario, it is more stable than most of the asio drivers that come with the cards i have [echo indigo io and tascam us122] and allows me to use both of them together, so i, effectively, have 4in/4out. AND IT'S FREE!! you may not know it yet, but you need this

Tyrant · Post by **Tyrant** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 3:13 pm

ok i understand that, but does asio4all use extra resources or is it just designed to get better performance out of the sound cards??????

onyxashanti · Post by **onyxashanti** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 3:55 pm

it is designed to replace the OEM ASIO driver. it doesnt remove the one that came with your sound card. it is simply there as another optional asio driver, should you choose to use it. from my experience, it is fantastic as a means of getting my tascam us122 to operate at under 256ms latency, which the factory driver does not allow.

Tyrant · Post by **Tyrant** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 4:29 pm

Still doesn't answer my question does it? If asio4all can do this amazing thing to all soundcards why doesn't the card manufacters write the driver for their own cards?

I know it reduces latency, but what i want to know is DOES IT USE EXTRA CPU RESOURCES to achive this???

yes or no?

Sorry for being impatient.

onyxashanti · Post by **onyxashanti** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 4:51 pm

Tyrant wrote:Still doesn't answer my question does it? If asio4all can do this amazing thing to all soundcards why doesn't the card manufacters write the driver for their own cards?

good question. some of them have really good asio drivers, and some don't. none of the OEM ones that i know of, have multiclient capability though

Tyrant wrote:I know it reduces latency, but what i want to know is DOES IT USE EXTRA CPU RESOURCES to achive this???

yes or no?

nope

AdamJay · Post by **AdamJay** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 6:05 pm

Tyrant wrote:Still doesn't answer my question does it? If asio4all can do this amazing thing to all soundcards why doesn't the card manufacters write the driver for their own cards?

I know it reduces latency, but what i want to know is DOES IT USE EXTRA CPU RESOURCES to achive this???

yes or no?

Sorry for being impatient.

i for one would rather take 4ms off my latency (say its 8ms and now down to 4ms with asio4all), at the expense of 4% cpu.

latency works this way in live... you start getting up into high CPU%, you get glitches, and half to back off of the output buffer. Thus you LOSE low-latency and gain some cpu (no glitches), of course you would GAIN low-latency and LOSE some cpu as well, right?

to me, its worth it.

but for the most part, ASIO4ALL does not choke your CPU, not anymore than any other driver would.

starving student · Post by **starving student** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 9:06 pm

so what exactly does asio for all do for you, I understand what an asio driver is but does it have any other neat tricks up its sleeve? also what does multiclient asio mean?

louZ · Post by **louZ** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 10:37 pm

it means that you can use different soundcards together.