How do I select ASIO drivers?

HAMERMAN409 · Post by **HAMERMAN409** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 4:52 am

I just installed a PCI-324 sound card and everything seems to be working so far (though the latency is on the high side), the driver shows up as WDM.

I have heard that ASIO is the better way to go. How do I actually go about selecting the ASIO driver?

Smokehouse · Post by **Smokehouse** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 9:23 am

The drivers for both WDM and ASIO get installed and are available. You select which you will use from within the software that will use them. For me, I use Cakewalk SONAR so I select Options>Audio... and on the Advanced tab there's a place to select from WDM/KS and ASIO.

What software are you using for your audio work?

HAMERMAN409 · Post by **HAMERMAN409** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 10:28 am

Thanks!

I am using Sonar and did not think to look there. For some reason I was thinking you had to select which driver was being used in the XP control panel somewhere.

Jidis · Post by **Jidis** » Fri Nov 17, 2006 2:42 pm

HAMERMAN409,

They (ASIO) are generally used in the audio apps. The OS and most multimedia apps aren't written to use them. Coincidentally, the Cakewalk and Sonic Foundry apps were a couple of the long time "non-ASIO" apps on the PC side, as far as the pro/semi-pro stuff goes. Since a few years back though, pretty much everything supports it. The standard multimedia drivers didn't used to be as thorough either (mainly for stereo i/o with internal clock).

Sorry for the trivia,

George