ASIO4ALL Multiclient Support

[MrSleep]

Does ASIO4ALL have multiclient support?

For ie, Is it possible to run Logic Audio and Recycle simultanuously.?
I am only able to hear sound coming from only one of the applications

If this feature is not available, please respond so I may rest assured.

[MrSleep]

Im giving up on this forum and ASIO4ALL... Dont seem to be getting any answer for anything even simple as yes or no from email or threads..
And if your reading this I wouldnt waste my time posting a querie and waiting for a reply here.

If you want rock solid drivers that dont tax your cpu (because if its taxing your cpu its not realy free now is it?), with bugs left right and centre getting in the way of making music when inspired, then go with a trusted name.. M-Audio.., They have released the new Revolution 5.1 with rock solid asio driver which has the same degree performance as their proline soundcards for musicians, and comes with real support and add to that audiophile sound quality for only around $90

Heres a reply I got from M-Audio questioning the integrity of thier ASIO drivers on this low cost card.

Subject Question: Revolution 5.1 ASIO Drivers solid as Audiophile24/96 Drivers?

I've had 1st hand experience with the Audiophile24/96 and was very pleased with its rock solid driver performance.

Now I am ready to buy another card however this time I wont be needing high quality AD/DA conversters on RCA's or the MIDI I/O interface, I will only be needing solid driver performance for working within a virtual studio
environment on Windows XP Pro running Logic Audio 5.5.1.

For this reason I am intrigued by the new low cost Revolution 5.1 and from what I've read in the manual it does come with ASIO drivers.

The only question raised about this item is., Should I expect the same ASIO performance as the ASIO drivers that come with Audiophile24/96?

Hope to hear from you soon.

Regards, MrSleep

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Hi MrSleep,

We hold the drivers for all of our products to the same
high-performance standards, so the ASIO drivers for the Revolution 5.1 will be just as good as those for the Audiophile 2496. The Revolution 5.1's ASIO drivers
offer stable performance and low latency.

Best regards,

Dylan Steffens
Inside Sales
M-Audio
[phone]
www.m-audio.com
www.propellerheads.se
www.ableton.com

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I've got nothing against ASIO4ALL., I just want to inform the people so they will know best which route to take.

Because its not free if its taking away CPU power & buggy inspiration blocking drivers

Take Care.

[Michael Tippach]

Dear mrsleep,

We here at ASIO4ALL Multimedia Corp./Driver Division/Customer Service Department would like to express our deepest regret having lost you as a customer!

We agree with you that this is an inexcusable situation - with no customer service representative having contacted you after more than 23 hours, we certainly will have to check our internal processes in order to make sure that this will remain a one time incident.

We are deeply sorry that you are not fully satisfied with our product and will of course offer you the option to return the product for a full refund no questions asked.

Also, we would like to apologize should our software indeed have used your CPU!

Sincerely,

Michael Tippach

Senior Administrative Support Manager,

ASIO4ALL Multimedia Corp.
Driver Division
Customer Service Department

www.asio4all.com/

[MrSleep]

Hi Micheal

I thought this would get a reply.

If you count the emails that was over a week ago.

Anyway, no hard feelings.., I was a littlle pissed of at the time not being able to get an answer either via email (over a week) or forums.. and being regretfull after posting there was no option to edit!

I realy do hope ASIO4ALL's performance will reach the stability anicapated by us all.

Kind Regards,

[Michael Tippach]

Since I had the opportunity to express my being pissed off about you being pissed off, as far as I am concerned we might as well go back to business ;D

To answer your original question: The multiclient capabilities of ASIO4ALL depend on the multiclient capabilities of the WDM device (driver). The vast majority of WDM device drivers do not offer multiclient support, unfortunately.

The reason why Windows appears to provide multiclient functionality for any audio device is that it instanciates the dreaded Kernel Mixer "kmixer" for any MME/DirectSound.. etc. audio access - at the expense of at least 30ms more latency on top of anything else and some more artefacts. This is a software mixing/resampling gizmo and the whole point of WDM/KS is to bypass this - at the possible expense of losing perceived multiclient functionality that was never actually there to begin with.

[MrSleep]

Your right.

Before reading your reply I posted another querie to that company something audio cant remember anyways heres thier reply.

Subject: Multiclient ASIO support Revolution 5.1.

Thank you, I have one more querie., is it possible to playback sounds running multiple aplications? for example, while Logic Audio is running can I also start Recycle and audition sounds simlutaneously (not synced or rewired) with Revolution 5.1 in ASIO mode.

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Response:

ASIO drivers are by nature are not multi-client (able to support multiple applications). The WDM drivers for the Revolution cards are multi-client, but not ASIO.

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Well that about shuts me up then hay.

Sorry for my Homerish attitude. Im still using ASIO4ALL so you can cancel that refund.. There is nothing that compares with its low rock bottom price $0

All I have to do now is find that doctor who erases memory. woohoo.

[maiki]

Guest-mrsleep said:

I was a littlle pissed of at the time not being able to get an answer either via email (over a week) or forums.. and being regretfull after posting there was no option to edit!

But do you get his point? This is free software, that he is quite generously providing to the public for free, and offering free support here. You didn't pay a cent for the software, how can you complain about your posts not being responded to?

Perhaps you have already realized that, not sure.