What about ASIO->WDM?

[Mark Draughn]

I'm a beginner with digital audio, so this may be a silly thing, but I'm looking for a way to take input from an ASIO-only device and make it available to WDM-only software.

Here's the specific problem I'm trying to solve: I just got hold of a used Digidesign Mbox with Pro Tools LE software. Apparently, the new version of WaveDriver (6.1.1) only supports output to the Mbox channels, not input. I'd like to use this thing with a couple of old audio programs I have that don't support ASIO.

When I first stumbled on ASIO4ALL, I thought I had found what I was looking for. I guess not. (Although ASIO4ALL should be helpful in another matter.) Nevertheless, this seems like a good place to find someone who might know the solution.

[proskrito]

could you borrow a SBlive / audigy ?
with that and kx drivers, you could route any asio output to winmm record input.

[proskrito]

sorry, previously you'd have to carry the mbox signal to the kx one using asio4all and some asio host (like the free spinaudio asio fx processor le), and then carry that signal to winmm recording.

[Michael Tippach]

Since this is an OAQ ("Occassionally Asked Question"):

Simulating a non-existing WDM interface using only ASIO is not as easily possible as it is the other way around.

ASIO is a user mode API, whereas the WDM driver architecture relies on kernel mode components. Obviously, it is rather easy to implement virtually any user mode interface one could think of on top of a kernel mode API. But system architecture prohibits it to design a kernel mode API on top of user mode code.