Windows ASIO woes

[James Coplin]

Aggregate device on Mac aren't great either. ASIO4ALL will work but it does have a clunky interface. My main gripe with it is that it doesn't name ports anything other than "port 1", "port 2", etc. I have 96 ins and outs so that pretty much makes it usuasable for me.

James

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On Jan 1, 2023, 2:51 AM, at 2:51 AM, Peter Korsten <peter at severity-one.com> wrote:
>Happy new year, everybody!
>
>So, on the last day of 2022, I discovered why people complain about 
>doing audio on Windows. And I was wondering whether somebody had some 
>experience, or simply just went with Mac OS or Linux. Neither is an 
>option for me, though.
>
>My main audio interface is a MOTU 24Ai, which is quite nice for its 
>price point. But crucially, it doesn't have a single output – not even 
>headphones. So I figured, let me use my old M-Audio 2x2M for that.
>
>Turns out that ASIO drivers in Windows can only be used as a single 
>device. So I can either use the MOTU, or the M-Audio, but not one for 
>input and the other for output.
>
>I've installed ASIO4ALL, but I'm still getting confused. I've installed
>
>Jack, too, but that's even more confusing. Finally, I've installed 
>something by an Australian who since passed away (forgot the name of
>the 
>software), and like ASIO4ALL, it doesn't deal well with large displays,
>
>and looks like it comes from the mid 1990s. And I'm just unable to get 
>sound to come out of the headphones when a rack synth is playing sound,
>
>like a demo song.
>
>Sooo... short of purchasing a MOTU interface with outputs, like an
>828es 
>or 16A, and somehow making it work with the 24Ai, has anybody ever had 
>to deal with this, and come up with a solution that didn't involve 
>banging your head against a wall? 🙂
>
>Thanks!
>
>- Peter
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