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Spot|DSE wrote on 10/25/2003, 5:00 PM
Asio is a lower latency driverset that allows you to record audio while hearing playback without a high latency issue. It's a driverset standard designed by Steinberg, now owned by Pinnacle, that most audio cards utilize. We are now seeing the implementation of ASIO 2.0
ASIO means Audio Stream In/Out, and by using ASIO, you gain some power by using the audio card's tools rather than depending on the processor to do all the work. For playback only, you aren't missing anything. With ASIO, you can usually get latency down to less than 10ms. They aren't as good a driverset as WDM, but Microsoft isn't doing a lot with WDM these days, and Vegas has never supported the WDM platform anyway. I wish it did.
Luxo wrote on 10/25/2003, 5:54 PM
I'm sure this is cool, but I recorded a mini-album with some friends a couple years back using Vegas 2.0. It worked fine, and we had 20+ tracks per song. We listened to all the recorded tracks while recording a new one, with no noticable latency. Is ASIO really that big an improvement?

Album is here if anyone's curious.

By the way, a couple months ago I tried to perform the same process with Vegas 4.0 and there was horrible latency, upwards of a second or so. Any idea what would have caused that? I was just messing around, so I didn't try hard to fix it. Just using the sound chip on the motherboard, nothing special. Perhaps that's it?
farss wrote on 10/25/2003, 9:50 PM
I suspect VV 4.0 has a lor more work for the CPU to do so that would contribute to it.
farss wrote on 10/25/2003, 9:51 PM
Zippy,
I'm curious as to why you are not able to use ASIO with this rig.

Did M-Audio claim you could?
farss wrote on 10/25/2003, 9:59 PM
I just had a look at the M-Audio site, I see it does look like your box doesn't support ASIO, probably as it's USB, the Firewire 410 does having more bandwidth to play with. Down side to the 410 is less I/O but it looks great for my needs and its a little cheaper.

I was just looking for something that would turn a laptop into a mobile reorder. I had been looking at a DAT recorder but this is cheaper and much more flexible.
ZippyGaloo wrote on 10/25/2003, 11:10 PM
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L25 wrote on 10/26/2003, 10:05 AM
As an acronym or "as-ee-oh?

mundain question, but I have heard it both ways
Spot|DSE wrote on 10/26/2003, 11:15 AM
As-ee-oh
Like Captain Eo from Disneyland.
ZippyGaloo wrote on 10/27/2003, 2:26 AM
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Grazie wrote on 10/27/2003, 4:57 AM
Good questions Zipps . . . I could do with a 101 on these items too.

Thanks,

Grazie
BrianStanding wrote on 10/27/2003, 12:09 PM
I have an Echo Mia sound card. I find that when I use the ASIO drivers, I lose audio/video sync when previewing from the timeline. Rendered files or print to tape seem to work O.K.

I do not have this problem with the Classic Windows Driver.

If I'm recording analog audio, I switch back to the ASIO drivers on the (perhaps mistaken) assumption that it gives you somewhat better recording performance.
Maverick wrote on 10/27/2003, 2:47 PM
As the subject of ASIO has come up again I asked this severall weeks ago but didn't get a reply;

Whenever I start Vegas 4 I get the following error;

The Creative ASIO devices have changed. You may need to restart this program before using Creative ASIO devices.'

I had updated the Creative Soundblaster drivers and rebooted after instaliing. Re-running V4 still gives this message.

BTW the above error message come up twice each time I run Vegas before it actually starts.

Any advice, please.