ASIO driver -Sound Forge - PC - MAGIX Community Forums Archive

Subject:ASIO driver Posted by: bob465 Date:6/10/2003 11:14:08 PM Hi, In searching the archives, I take it that this crowd isn't very fond [by and large] of creative products so please excuse my question, but I do need some help since I'm in the middle of restoring some old cassette lectures using NR 2.0. Sound Forge 6.0 doesn't give an ASIO option under Preferences/Wave/Record. Yes, I can record at 96kHz, 24bit [or so it seems], but I don't directly get to specify ASIO support as I do with the Cubasis software included with the Audigy 2 Platinum. I'm only using the Platinum till I get my Audigy 2 Platinum ex. Am I using the ASIO driver anyway or is Sound Forge using it's own interface with the Audigy 2 hardware? Please help. I can always use the Cubasis product to record and then use the NR2.0 directx plugin but Cubasis seems needlessly complex for my needs. Bob
Subject:RE: ASIO driver Reply by: Erik_Nygaard Date:6/11/2003 3:24:45 AM AFAIK Sound Forge does not support ASIO and it really should not be necessary for an audio editor since latency is a moot issue here. Use Windows classic wave (or something similar, can't remember the exact name). You should be able to pick this driver in the options.
Subject:RE: ASIO driver Reply by: bob465 Date:6/11/2003 11:37:12 AM THanks much, Ok so in my experiments, recording noisy speech with Cubasis at 96Khz/24bits [ASIO set to Directx, full duplex] then using NR2.0 produces much better results than using SF6 to record at 96kHz/24bits then using NR2.0. Of course it is a subjective determination in my case [lacking professional analytical tools] but still very marked. What is going on here? ....I don't know ASIO but I take it that it deals in low latency and nothing more from what you said. Can you either give me the short version of how ASIO works [i'm an EE so get technical if you want] or provide a link that does. I would greatly appreciate this. These lectures that I'm restoring are very important in my world and would serve a large community. Thanks, Bob
Subject:RE: ASIO driver Reply by: Erik_Nygaard Date:6/12/2003 5:03:53 AM Yes, ASIO was developed primarely as a low-latency solution AFAIK. The Microsoft/Cakewalk equivalent is WDM. For Gigastudio you need a soundcard with GSIF-drivers. There are surely others here who will provide you with the specifics on ASIO. There were some discussions on the ACID-forum a while back when ASIO was added. Try do a search.

Subject:ASIO driver

Posted by: bob465

Date:6/10/2003 11:14:08 PM

Hi,

In searching the archives, I take it that this crowd isn't very fond [by and large] of creative products so please excuse my question, but I do need some help since I'm in the middle of restoring some old cassette lectures using NR 2.0. Sound Forge 6.0 doesn't give an ASIO option under Preferences/Wave/Record. Yes, I can record at 96kHz, 24bit [or so it seems], but I don't directly get to specify ASIO support as I do with the Cubasis software included with the Audigy 2 Platinum. I'm only using the Platinum till I get my Audigy 2 Platinum ex. Am I using the ASIO driver anyway or is Sound Forge using it's own interface with the Audigy 2 hardware? Please help. I can always use the Cubasis product to record and then use the NR2.0 directx plugin but Cubasis seems needlessly complex for my needs.

Bob

Subject:RE: ASIO driver

Reply by: Erik_Nygaard

Date:6/11/2003 3:24:45 AM

AFAIK Sound Forge does not support ASIO and it really should not be necessary for an audio editor since latency is a moot issue here.
Use Windows classic wave (or something similar, can't remember the exact name). You should be able to pick this driver in the options.

Subject:RE: ASIO driver

Reply by: bob465

Date:6/11/2003 11:37:12 AM

THanks much,

Ok so in my experiments, recording noisy speech with Cubasis at 96Khz/24bits [ASIO set to Directx, full duplex] then using NR2.0 produces much better results than using SF6 to record at 96kHz/24bits then using NR2.0. Of course it is a subjective determination in my case [lacking professional analytical tools] but still very marked. What is going on here? ....I don't know ASIO but I take it that it deals in low latency and nothing more from what you said. Can you either give me the short version of how ASIO works [i'm an EE so get technical if you want] or provide a link that does. I would greatly appreciate this. These lectures that I'm restoring are very important in my world and would serve a large community.

Thanks,
Bob

Subject:RE: ASIO driver

Reply by: Erik_Nygaard

Date:6/12/2003 5:03:53 AM

Yes, ASIO was developed primarely as a low-latency solution AFAIK.
The Microsoft/Cakewalk equivalent is WDM.
For Gigastudio you need a soundcard with GSIF-drivers.

There are surely others here who will provide you with the specifics on ASIO.
There were some discussions on the ACID-forum a while back when ASIO was added.
Try do a search.