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Can someone explain what ASIO drivers do
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| Matt Jay |
Hi, I'm getting a new soundcard soon, It will probably support ASIO
What exactly to these drivers do?
Do they reduce latency or something?
Just a quick explaination would be appreciated
Thanks. :) |
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| Matt Jay |
| Have done a search by the way :cool: |
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| hey cheggy |
It stands for "Audio Signal In Out". Yes, generally speaking, ASIO drivers have lowered latency. Porgrams like Cubase require ASIO drivers to run. Stienberg have their own MME and DX ASIO drivers if your card does not have its own but these are never as good as card specific drivers.
| quote: | | I'm getting a new card soon, it will probably support ASIO |
Probably? Make sure the card has its own ASIO drivers. M-Audio, Terratec. These tend to be the more popular choices for electronic musicians. |
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| josh |
so, do i need to get it change to ASIO as wat i using now on my sequencer. (Cubase/ Reason)
i reckon i using MME.
Beside, whats the diff of VST and VSTi and Cubase SX and Cubase SL?
care to help?;) |
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| hey cheggy |
If you have installed Cubase, then you have ASIO drivers on your computer. When you install Cubase, it installs ASIO MME and DX drivers. The only reason you should change your audio driver is if you have a better one. If you are using an MME ASIO driver, then I'd hazard a guess that this is the best driver you have.
VST = a plugin
VSTi = an instrument
Cubase SX = Full Version
Cubase SL = Limited Version (does not have all the features of SX) |
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| josh |
thanks mate.
SO if im using M audio 6/6. Best i choose MME or ASIO?
need guidance. thanks for that.. it really do helps |
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| Dj Thy |
ASIO is software developed by Steinberg and means Audio Stream (not Signal like cheggy said) Input Output.
With normal drivers, all the information is passed and processed in the OS first, which results in rather high latency. To reduce that latency, Steinberg made ASIO. With those drivers, the signal is passed directly between the audio program and the audio interface, not through the OS (or not as much). So you can have playable latencies (play in real time, or do overdubs).
Now, not all cards accept ASIO (mainly consumer ones), so Steinberg made some generic ones (well, more kinda ASIO wrappers for Directx and MME). They aren't nearly as good as the dedicated ASIO drivers for the audio interface, if they have some.
So, the prefered order in which you must choose the drivers :
- Dedicated ASIO drivers, generally it's written something like ASIO "model name of the audio interface", for example ASIO M-audio Delta66
- If those don't work, look at ASIO Directx. Like I already said, it's a wrapper, and Directx is a OS api, so using this will result in higher latency than the dedicated ones
- If neither of the above work, you'll have to choose ASIO MME. Frankly, if you're up to that point, better look out for another audio interface, or if there aren't any dedicated ASIO drivers out there that work. Because MME is really the crappiest of all. |
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| josh |
ok. thanks alot mate.. thanks for clearing the confusion of what i had when i kept thinking what da hell was that.
millon of thanks!!
Cheers! |
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| Sebraaa12 |
It's all about the latency. When I'm using MMX then i got about 700ms and if ASIO then 40ms or less :)
If you dont want to use some VST'is with MIDI controllers or record audio then MMX is OK :) but in the end of 2003 you will need it!! 100%
For example: my friend is using YAMAHA A3000 sampler with Cubase VST 5 and the sequencer is controlling only MIDI data and no audio data!
Yamaha sampler has already good soundcard builded in!! With low latency ... ok nevermind that post!! You need ASIO :D hehe
sebra |
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| hey cheggy |
| quote: | Originally posted by josh
thanks mate.
SO if im using M audio 6/6. Best i choose MME or ASIO?
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Your driver should be called "delta ASIO', or something similar. |
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| josh |
ok. thanks mate. for the wonderful knowledge. but somehow, if i wanna check whether my CUbase SX is using ASIO, which and where can i check? and the bandwidth should be set at where?
When i play my MIDI on my syth using FM7/ ABSYTH as VSTi, i find that when i trigger each note, it will give a long latency before the sound came out. How can i solve that?
thanks |
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| hey cheggy |
Devices --> Device Setup --> VST Multitrack
On the right, there is a drop bar titled ASIO driver. The driver you are currently using is here. |
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