Multiple softwares on asio

[matts2cant]

Hi,

I'm using Nuendo and amplitube to record and play guitar, with the asio4all driver. I can't use another audio software (Guitar pro, iTunes, Youtube, etc...) simultaneously because the audio output is allready taken by asio. I was wondering if there was a way to listen multiple softwares through asio.

Thx

[StMartyne]

Hi, there. I am having the same problem. I have been using X-Fi card with ASIO4ALL under Windows XP SP3 for quite some time now. And neither ACID (my DAW of choice) nor Guitar Rig 3 running with ASIO drivers has never prevented me from using other audio applications.

Now, that I've migrated to Windows 7, the problem appeared. I've installed this forums.creative.com/t5/Sound-Blaster/SB-X-Fi-Series-Support-Pack-2-0-05-15-2009/td-p/527485, frankly beta, version of X-Fi drivers.

Any help would be apreciated.

[tibo]

Hi,

Same issue over here.

I've upgraded my PC to Windows 7 Pro. asio4all works fine with Guitar Rig (latency ok, sound quality ok) but I can't use any other audio application (winamp, youtube, media player classic...) when asio4all is running. It's a bit frustrating.

I don't understand why... I've been trying with windows 7 audio driver, soundmax driver, "exclusive mode" on/off (what's this?), without success.

It was working fine with Windows XP.

I've been reading many threads/forums but couldn't find any solution.

Any ideads?

[Caleb]

I have the exact same problem. It would be nice to get it working!

[agentorange]

Hi.
I've got absolutely the same problem. On XP all works fine but on Win7 when i launch Guitar Rig then ASIO4All takes the output and doesn't "share" it with other applications. I'd figured it out by running Winamp after Guitar Rig and then turning off/on my Realtek HD Audio output in the list of interfaces/pins in advanced options of ASIO4All. When i turn it off then Winamp and all other apps can reproduce sound. Meanwhile in the interfaces list of ASIO4All output become unavailable (there's red cross on it) and i cannot turn it on back. When i stop other apps from playing anything i wait a few seconds and turn on back my Realtek HD Audio output in asio and sound from Guitar Rig reaches my speaker system.
All this looks like ASIO4All runs on Win7 in this stupid <casting voodoo curses on Microsoft> "Exclusive mode" in default (hope it calls so in english version; just like all inputs/outputs in HDA driver settings) and doesn't let other applications to use audio output.

and i think that its not our case from FAQ:
# Most inexpensive audio devices support a single client only at any one time.
# Windows works around this by using the kmixer, a software mixing device in order to emulate multi-client support.
# kmixer is bad for latency.
# Bypassing kmixer is one of the main points of ASIO4ALL to begin with.
# Therefore: No multi-client with ASIO4ALL - unless your audio device supports this in hardware.

[gradius]

Having the same problem here trying to run Cool edit & Cubase 5 simultaneously, no luck at all, but I'm using XP, everyone else seems to think it worked with XP but it doesn't seem to in my case....very odd.

[exyll]

People.. its your imagination.. ASIO4ALL also exclusively locks your audio with XP.

This is your ASIO4ALL can achieve its low latency without knowing your hardware details.

If you are not satisfied with this then go buy audio hardware that comes with decend ASIO drivers.

[agentorange]

Jan 15, 2010 19:27:19 GMT exyll said:

People.. its your imagination.. ASIO4ALL also exclusively locks your audio with XP.

This is your ASIO4ALL can achieve its low latency without knowing your hardware details.

If you are not satisfied with this then go buy audio hardware that comes with decend ASIO drivers.

1st try then say, man! on XP asio4all doesn't block other apps from playing. or do u think we take any drugs to "imagine" this? on XP i can easily run guitar rig, plug in my guitar, start player and play guitar while song is playing too. and on win7 it doesn't work, because A4A takes sound output exclusively.

everyone who uses A4A know about low latency that it allows to get

and the last one. we dont need comments like "if u cant buy a ferrari then just go and kill yourself"

so for now the one of solutions is to run tracks in guitar rig built in tapedeck or any its equal in other apps. but its very hard to make loop for example litle piece of track because there's low precision positioner. another way is to use one apps as vst plugins in other apps.

[Michael Tippach]

Why it may have worked on XP is that your (likely Realtek) WDM audio driver for XP contains (among other things) a summing node, IOW, they have implemented software mixing capabilities inside their WDM miniport. This comes at a price, as the low latency WDM/KS performance of Realtek XP drivers after version 1.61 has been rather poor.

Things are different under Vista or Win 7, because WaveRT access to the (same) audio hardware is much more immediate. Along the way, you lose the multiclient functionality, though. But that was fake to begin with.

[please]

fake or not I want it back!



is it possible or not on win 7 ? would I need to reinstall old realtek drivers?

I dont know squat but I really liked it the way it was

[J]

I use Virtual Audio Cable to route all my non-DAW system sounds (browser, winamp etc.) to run through my DAW which is handled by Asio4All, that's my way around it anyway.