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Running Live kills sound from other apps?
Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:14 am
by Keithtron
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?
Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 2:06 pm
by longjohns
kills sound from a different sound card? or just can't share the one card between apps? #2 is to be expected.
Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2006 6:43 pm
by yogz
tell your configuration: mac or pc, soundcard...
Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2006 1:27 am
by Clearscreen
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...
Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 5:50 pm
by anto
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?
Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 6:07 pm
by djgroovy
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.
Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 6:16 pm
by laird
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
Posted: Thu May 31, 2007 6:53 pm
by ewistrand
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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Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 7:52 pm
by anto
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
Posted: Fri Jun 01, 2007 11:06 pm
by djgroovy
Glad to help
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 12:12 am
by rikhyray
Emu can do that, also Echo, as far as I remember, even the little PCMCIA cards, you have to set the virtual outs