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Seriously, a lot of the commenters here are just spreading FUD. Yes, Microsoft does put out updates to Windows 10 every 6 months, but I've never had it break my DAW software or audio drivers (or really any software I care about).
I have a couple systems I'm running Ableton Live on: A Lenovo ThinkCentre desktop workstation (Haswell Core i7) that's about 4 years old (for my home rig), and a ~2 year old ThinkPad X1 Carbon for my live rig (Kabylake Core i7, I think).
For anything I'm going to play live, I just save the Ableton file to the cloud (OneDrive), so that any tweaks I make from my home rig are automatically synced to the laptop next time I log in, or vice versa.
Both these are Core i7 CPUs with SSD drives (I highly recommend SSD, don't do an HDD for your primary drive, you'll regret it.) You probably want a decent amount of CPU horsepower if you're running a lot of softsynth or audio processing plugins, so I'd definitely stick with an i7. I think my systems are both 16GB RAM, which has been sufficient for my purposes (the desktop originally only had 8GB, but I upgraded it because that wasn't really enough).
The sound quality in Ableton should be adequate through the typical onboard Intel audio, but the problem you'd have is that without ASIO drivers, the latency is terrible. You could presumably get around this by using something like ASIO4ALL but honestly I haven't played much with that; I just plug in the Scarlett 6i6 (which, of course, came with its own ASIO drivers).
That will be from using the onboard soundcard. You can't really get any decent performance from those without having enormous buffer sizes. Get yourself an entry-level soundcard to begin with. In the meantime, try out the ASIO4ALL driver. ASIO drivres give better performance.
It's plug and play so it uses Windows' built in drivers. It should be "CMUSBDAC.sys" which is listed as "C-Media USB Audio Class 1.0 and 2.0 DAC Device Driver". PLEASE do not find this file in the Windows folder and delete it. Very bad things will happen!
Hold the Windows key and press R to open the Run window. Enter the command "devmgmt.msc" and hit enter. In Device Manager, click on View → Show Hidden Devices. See if it shows up now as it should even show disconnected devices.
On my old PC, my snowball's driver would randomly bluescreen my PC. No amount of driver removal/reinstall would work. I then found this website which has a generic microphone driver to add features to microphones. It fixed my bluescreening issue at least, though I'm not sure if it will help in this case. Worth noting that this driver is for audiophiles so a ton of settings will show up during/after the installation. I just clicked next on everything, ignoring any custom options.
This article may help you...
https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/articles/209072289-How-to-reduce-latency
Are you running on Mac or Windows? I know when I was on Windows, I had to run a program called Asio4all and it really helped with my latency at the time. http://www.asio4all.org
It sounds like you are using the wrong drivers. Windows has horrible delay. If you have a dedicated sound card, install its drivers. If you use an integrated one on a mainboard, install Asio4All drivers. (http://www.asio4all.org).
Make sure to select the right sound device in Reaper.
From http://www.asio4all.org/intro.html:
> In order to successfully run ASIO4ALL, you need:
> A WDM-compatible operating system, such as Win98SE/ME/2k/XP/2003/XP64 or Windows Vista x86/x64.
> A WDM-driver for your audio hardware. (Under Win2k/XP/Vista... this is implicit, not so under Win98SE/WinME.)
> A couple minutes of your time and a little bit of luck.
So there's your problem. You gotta get yourself a Windows machine if you want to use ASIO4ALL.
I'm no Mac user, but from what I've read in about 5 minutes of Googling, it seems that Mac's Core Audio drivers are better implemented into the OS and make alternative drivers like ASIO unnecessary.
Solving the problem probably depends on the soundcard, driver, and settings. This link suggests that SoundBlaster cards have a record from "Stereo Mix" or "Mic/Line" setting that can cause this problem.
If you're on Windows, using the internal soundcard and not already using ASIO4ALL, you might solve the problem (and others) by switching to that excellent driver.
If your piano has USB MIDI, a good workaround could be to record to midi (thereby bypassing soundcard input) and use Ableton's Grand Piano pack.
Thanks for that - I'm thinking it still might be ASIO related - sometimes the Pioneer ASIO driver can be a bit flaky. You could try using asio4all and see if these drivers make a difference - worth a shot.
I have a steinberg ur242 that has issues. When it does work, it sounds like it's being played in a sewer. I tried so many settings, thinking it was something with the DAW, pickups, new driver, etc. Currently it's not even working with my DAW.
I think I've narrowed it down to the Steinberg Yamaha ASIO driver. Using the http://www.asio4all.org/ driver, the sound is perfect. So it may not help, but I would try the asio4all drivers. There will be a bit more latency, but I get 1.5ms in 6.5ms out with asio4all. Yamaha Steinberg driver is 2.4ms.
Good luck!
I have an MOTU M4 on order.
Ah, I'm guessing you're on windows, then. In that case, if you're just using the speakers in your screen over HDMI or some headphones/speakers plugged into the audio jacks on your computer, make sure the drivers for your motherboard, cpu, bios, etc are all up to date. If you're using an external audio device, like USB speakers or an audio interface, also make sure those drivers are fully updated. If literally nothing fixes it, and this is always a worst-case-scenario solution, this can help 'fix' things by breaking the way windows handles audio and replacing the pipeline with its own, but it can be horribly buggy and unintuitive.
Alternatively, you could buy a mac and set your buffers down to, say, 64 samples for no latency at all and no crackles, but then again, macs cost more for a reason
Have you tried ASIO 4 All?
The Behringer drivers should be enough. Uninstall the drivers fully and then reinstall, then plug in the interface and see if something changes?
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What specific driver are you using?
I highly recommend using the ASIO4ALL driver
https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000204630-Setting-up-ASIO4ALL-Windows-
I recommend updating the firmware on your device first. The product page will have the firmware and the zoom driver.
Use Asio4All as your last resort. I’m assuming your OS is Windows 10.
You may want to try a different audio driver like ASIO. MME/DirectX is known to cause latency.
Your overall latency is 98.7 ms.
You can download ASIO here - http://www.asio4all.org/
- Try installing http://www.asio4all.org/ ASIO4ALL
- Restart your machine
- Turn on your Helix and wait for it to boot-up
- Plug the Helix into your machine via USB
- Start Reaper
- Go to Options > Preferences > Device
- Audio System: select "ASIO"
- ASIO Driver: select "ASIO Helix"
In asio4all, the blue highlight indicates the actual/current buffer length. It usually updates as soon as you release your mouse button. In OPs image, you can see the slider is at 256smp, but the blue highlight shows its at the maximum buffer length.
Ensure both audio devices are set to the same bugger length. While this probably won't force the buffer length to update, it will help reduce some weird artifacts from the mismatched buffers.
Also make sure the "auto-close" toggle is not enabled in the audio settings of FL studio. Opening the asio4all control panel may cause FL to pause the audio device and stop the settings from applying as expected.
Another option is to try FL Studio ASIO. It doesn't usually provide better latency, but in this case it just might.
Good luck.
E: I see this is an older version of FL Studio. FL ASIO wasnt available until FL12. I highly recommend updating to the latest version to ensure you have the most recent version of asio4all, as well as get access to the FL studio ASIO driver. (You can also download it separately from here.
I’ve never put the pc audio and the DAW audio on the same device so I’m not sure if it can be done although it seems logical.
Here’s what I do;
For the pc sound (like YouTube videos) I use a program called “Asio4all”.
For my DAW sound I use a dedicated audio card. Then I can listen to a video and produce music for example.
I’ll suggest downloading asio4all
Then tweak the setting in there and in sound devices on Windows\mac and it should work for you
That sounds like the behavior when ASIO isn't being used. Have you tried the ASIO4All drivers?
And I agree. I get this all the time with stupid printer drivers after all the big updates.
Go into the hardware manager and delete all the device information, unplug the interface and retry.
Maybe even do a system restore.
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What is your audio interface? You need to be running an ASIO audio driver as they are low latency. (Selectable in the Audio Device pulldown box).
Either your audio interface manufacturer will provide an ASIO driver, or, you need to download ASIO4ALL ( http://www.asio4all.org/ ).
The manufacturers driver is best if they offer one.
First of all, you will need your keyboard to act as a USB soundcard if you want to get the sound from the computer through it. The M1 in this case has nothing to do with that. As I can see from the Korg specs page, it does not look like it has USB audio so you cannot play the computer sound through your keyboard.
Second, only as a heads up, the fact that the Korg M1 can be played standalone (without a DAW) is not usual (several digital synths do not have a standalone version), and when running standalone they are not called VSTs: they are VSTs when they are in the form of a .dll and can be opened only from a DAW.
From there, to reduce the audio latency (lag) of the M1 you can do two things. For both ones you should get an ASIO driver for your computer. Assuming you use Windows and that you do not have a soundcard, install ASIO4ALL. This is an audio driver which works for almost any soundcard (integrated too) and provides less latency than the regular Windows driver.
Then you have the two options: Run Korg M1 as standalone and look for an option to change the audio driver to ASIO4ALL, then reduce the buffer size until you get a low latency but no overruns, or use a DAW like Reaper to run M1 as a plugin and also select ASIO4ALL as the audio driver, reducing the buffer size too.
First of all, there is always latency. I assume you mean you're experiencing too much latency!
The guy at the store is correct, if you have a USB connection from your keyboard into your PC, you do not need to use a MIDI cable.
However, you might need to change your sample buffer size, sample rate, etc. My development partner wrote a great blog article about latency that might provide some useful insights. Also, for Windows users, it can sometimes be useful to use the ASIO4All low latency driver for WDM audio devices.
This mic has a analog digital converter built in, no need to use your interface is just plug it into your computer. If you want to use your Scarlett and the mic simultaneously you should be able. If you use a Mac I think it is pretty straightforward. On PC you will need to use asio4all drivers get them here http://www.asio4all.org those drivers should allow you to use multiple USB interfaces.
What audio card/device are you using? On my Roland Rubix, with Premiere set to anything over 50ms latency in MME mode (edit>prefs>audio hardware), I get the same thing you are getting and it gets worse the more latency it is given.
But set to 50ms and under it is sync'd up very well when playing in slow mode. In ASIO mode it is sync'd up perfect.
Either try reducing the latency, or perhaps install ASIO drivers for your audio device. If none exist, you could try ASIO4ALL.
This is a latency issue.
Windows PC are not very good with audio. there's a reason why mac is dominant in the audio world and rocksmith runs smooth no issues with it.
The problem is the buffer. you would do much better to change the on-board audio driver. for pc i would recommend installing ASIO4ALL and then adjust the buffer size.
PSA for all about buffer size (i did 2 degrees in audio engineering)
Having a large buffer size reduces the amount of strain on your cpu. but causes a lot of lag. especially where input/output in concerned
Anything above 10ms latency is noticeable.
Having a low buffer size causes more strain on your cpu but with little to no lag.
what you need to do is find a good balance
128 / 256 are usually a good point for low latency.
Cheapest? Direct to the computers line-in (not mic) and the ASIO4ALL drivers will in a lot of cases give good enough performance for playing around.
Costs a 2.5" to 3.5" jack adapter.
Are you using a dedicated audio interface? To get the most out of Cakewalk, you really need ASIO support.
ASIO will give you low latency, high performance audio.
If you're on a budget, the Focusrite Scarlett Solo is a good option, and you can get one for around $125 or so.
You may have success if you install "ASIOForAll" : http://www.asio4all.org/ .... You'll need to choose that driver in the audio settings once you do.
You need to install the latest drivers for the interface (ver 4.59) AND also install ASIO4ALL drivers (http://www.asio4all.org/), I recommend ver 2.13.
Having installed those, depending on your DAW, you go to audio settings and it will like have a choice like "Audio device type" and you need to choose ASIO. Then there should be another opcioned called "device" and there you choose UMC ASIO Driver.
After that, you need to open the ASIO control panel, click on the wrench icon for advanced settings and on the left side you'll see a list of all your audio devices. There you can choose the desired inputs and outputs.
Here, I took a screenshot: https://imgur.com/mXiMY4C
Let me know if you can see the picture, and if you have problems setting up the options I can try to help you out.
Hi, Joe from Behringer here. Please ensure you have installed the ASIOALL driver:
<strong>http://www.asio4all.org/</strong>
This will be recognised as USB AUDIO CODEC. Be aware that this USB output will only submit a stereo mix.
you can get asio4all to get a better performance from the onboard sound card. Less latency without audio dropouts.
here is a quick video on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBoq4kGl4rc
you may still need to adjust the buffer size in asio4all
get http://www.asio4all.org/ after installing. open reaper options>preferences>audio/device. Audio System dropdown: ASIO Audio Driver Dropdown: ASIO4ALL. Hit Ok
Create a new track> change input to whatever input you plugged your guitar into. Arm the Record for that track. now click the little speaker icon (record monitoring: on)
A good interface with decent drivers is a massive plus, yes.
In the meantime, if you're on Windows, to improve your latency you can try ASIO4All which can push the latency down on most chipsets w/o proper ASIO drivers. Doesn't work for everybody but it's definitely worth a shot.
To decrease latency, download ASIO4ALL drivers and lower the sample size. HDD or SSD doesn't matter because the sounds get loaded into RAM which is plenty fast. That's not your bottleneck.
Hi, Joe from Behringer here. You will need to install the ASIO4ALL driver linked below in order for your unit to be recognised by Windows. This will be recognised as USB AUDIO CODEC. You will need to set this as your input and output device. Then, any audio output from your computer will come through the headphone port. I hope this helps.
Hey, I have had experience with this.
I recommend you download ASIO4all and then look within it to enable recording and buffer rate.
I have used my Rocksmith cable and the only way I could get it to work was with ASIO4all.
I do recommend getting a better io. Audient has a ridiculously good 4 channel plus DI for 200 right now. Audient is really really good imo, I like it more than any other interface I have ever owned and I have owned a few. The preamps are too good for the price, I seriously dont understand how they get the quality with the price they selling.
Hey, Joe from Behringer here. we'd recommend installing the ASIO4ALL driver with your UMC22. You can find this linked below. Be aware this will be recognised as USB AUDIO CODEC.
As /u/buttfacenosehead has said you'll need an ASIO driver to get a useable level of latency.
If you're using a built in soundcard I'd recommend using the ASIO4ALL driver available for free here http://www.asio4all.org/
I might be able to help with a few of these!
- I think the plan seems fine enough, but I would anticipate spending time troubleshooting random issues that might arise and working out bugs in the workflow at the beginning.
- I don't have any experience with a Launchpad so I can't really help you there.
- Could be your HDD, but it could be your laptop. Open Task Manager and navigate to the Performance tab. Then launch/scan your libraries and look at what happens. If your CPU is hitting 100% or close to it, that's likely your issue. If not, you can get pretty cheap external SSDs to store your libraries. I do this with my Native Instruments libraries and it works very well. (And as a side note, even if the hard drive isn't the issue, I really recommend using an SSD. It is simply far faster and more-reliable than a hard drive, especially if you're transporting it a lot.)
- A lot of factors can cause latency. My first recommendation would be to download and use the ASIO4ALL. This solved a lot of my latency issues when I was first starting out.
- I use the Komplete Kontrol S49. It's very high quality and it works very well with Native Instruments libraries because the keyboard is made by Native Instruments. I've been very happy with it - it has lots of cool little features.
Hope this helps, and good luck!
I'd guess no. Or it may be recognized, but may have too much latency to be usable. On MacOS, CoreAudio may or may not recognize it, but on Windows, you basically need an ASIO driver, and I don't think that standard was even established until the mid-2000's. But who knows, maybe ASIO4ALL will recognize it. In any case, it certainly wouldn't be as good or convenient as a dedicated audio device.
You need to use an ASIO driver to get low latency on a PC. The Mac uses something called core audio which is already a low latency driver.
See if there are ASIO drivers for your laptop or try one called ASIO4ALL.
http://www.asio4all.org
If that doesn't work then you can easily solve the problem by buying an audio interface, which has low latency drivers and a lot of other features you might want.
Garage Band is a lite and stripped down version of logic. You can start out with that and then upgrade later if you go the Mac route, but just know that there are tons of people using FL Studio on PC . Probably more so than the Mac. You just need to make sure you are using ASIO drivers to fix your issue.
http://www.asio4all.org/ solved it partially. It works okay now. the quality is better initially, but after a while it distorts again. turning reaper on and off solves that. annoying, to say the least. But we're getting somewhere.
Any ASIO compatible audio interface will make a noticeable difference.
Since it's a hobby for you, maybe try using a generic ASIO driver even without an external interface and see if that helps, before taking the leap ;)
Something else you could try is downloading ASIO4ALL driver and use that to control the buffer settings. It may help to use a different driver for your existing hardware and interface
What interface are you using? What software are you using? What's your current latency? What OS are you on?
In the past (long ago) I had trouble with a cheap audio interface and I fixed it using the Asio4All drivers: http://www.asio4all.org/
I would recomend looking into a DAW.
Ableton Lite 10 is free with certain hardware. But i also heard if you install the trial. It will eventually turn over to a valid copy of Ableton lite 10.
Once you got ableton running you need to configure input/outputs. Depending on what your computer has for Audio out.
But either way your gonna need Asio4All. Keep in mind your gonna need to open the advanced menu to send and receive from multiple devices. Buffer of 512 should be fine.
If you do not have a usable Audio out. Then go ahead and get Voicemeters VB CABLE.
https://www.vb-audio.com/Cable/index.htm
Now that you setup your mic & Audio output. Go ahead and download this free VST. This is a popular pitcher used by many including Post Melonman Malone
https://www.auburnsounds.com/products/Graillon.html
Your gonna have to play around with it to get what you want. And i cannot teach you ableton & Audio engineering in this one post. So consult YouTube Tutorials if you get stuck.
please don't sell your laptop, it is a beast in the laptop category! and unusually you have set your sample rate and buffer sizes to the setting that low-end computers use. my laptop is shit compared to yours but i use 512 as the buffer size and 48000hz as sample rate and it works good. i recommend you to download ASIO4ALL (i highly suspect you aren't using it, and instead you are using the DirectX/MME thing) and set 256 or less as the buffer size in it. that might solve your problem.
If you only have a single input/ouput connection, then forget about recording that way.
The biggest problem with using the rec out in this scenario is that using it will mute the speaker, and if you don't have another output on your laptop for a pair of headphones, you won't be able to hear yourself play. And even if you had another set of speakers connected, the drivers for your audio device likely won't be ASIO compatible/will introduce too much latency to use for real-time monitoring. You might have luck and ASIO4all might support your laptop, but still it's not ideal solution (as laptop speakers typically are bad anyway...) http://www.asio4all.org/
(that's probably also why your DAW doesn't offer it as an input source: no proper driver for real-time recording - might also be that you need to set it from duplex mode to stereo-input first or configure your DAW to use another sound subsystem, but still that wouldn't solve the latency issue/the problem of not being able to monitor yourself properly).
So first check whether your laptop allows for direct monitoring of the aux-input via the laptop's speaker. If you cannot get that to work , then you at bare minimum need a y-splitter cable to connect headphones in addition to your laptop to the mini's rec-out so you can hear yourself play without disturbing latency.
OK, I thought you were using ASIO4ALL. I would reccomend using it, as it is a lot easier to configure that the UMC ASIO. http://www.asio4all.org/ Just install the program, then ASIO4ALL should show up as an ASIO device. Then follow the above instructions
I had the problem that my audio driver (realtek) kept compressing, turned out the Ableton out was driving really loud into the system audio.
Go to sound settings > advanced sound options (bottom button) and see if turning Ableton down there helps.
Also you can download asio4all, then in Ableton select asio as your driver and choose asio4all. Maybe that helps.
You can always download a specific driver like ASIO and use that as the designated device:
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In the GUI for ASIO you can then select which cards ins and outs you want to use
I would use ASIO drivers, like http://www.asio4all.org/ instead of MME.
Also, your audio input device is set to Focusrite USB. Is that the same as what you're trying to use with the USB2.0-MIDI?
If you don’t mind paying EZ Drummer has a stand-alone package so you don’t need a DAW like garage band or logic(mac), addictive drums does as well. Not sure about record functions on either of those, so if you wanted to record you’d need a DAW as well and use the VST plugins for EZ Drummer and Addictive Drums inside the DAW programs.
I’ve just noticed Pro Tools now do a free version called Pro Tools First I’ve not looked into it so not sure if it supports vsts but it’s free
https://www.avid.com/pro-tools
If not Cubase is good and pretty easy to use.
You may need to install ASIO4All if your on a windows machine this helps with latency issues when plugging in audio interfaces so you might need this plugging direct into your computer on usb.
I think i had the same problem. My application would constantly load because there was an audio dropout. Trying downloading ASIO4ALL. Hopefully that should fix your problem.
No, usb is all you need, and you shouldn't have any problems. USB/midi recording normally deals fine with latency by itself... and it doesn't use the sound card or gpu.
Make sure to download the latest ASIO4ALL driver from http://www.asio4all.org/ just in case
You should not use Windows Audio for the Audio device type. You should use ASIO instead. Now, if your soundcard doesn't come with ASIO drivers, you should install ASIO4ALL.
Once you select ASIO, you no longer have output and input, but you'll have Device. There you pick your soundcard (or ASIO4ALL), and then your inputs and outputs should be detected and configured automatically (I think? Don't remember having to do anything there).
Helix Native is another piece of software just like Bias FX or Amplitube, it doesn't involve any hardware other than your computer and the real tone cable/audio interface, if that is what you were wondering. Helix Native reads a clean signal from the tone cable and applies its own effects over it, meaning you can record a clean track and then add/shape your own tone after the fact.
I also forgot to mention, if you are going to use the real tone cable outside of rocksmith you may need to download ASIO4ALL so you aren't getting crazy issues with latency.
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Try installing the full Realtek driver package from https://www.realtek.com/en/component/zoo/advanced-search/433?Itemid=276 I'm not sure which one to download so you might have to try a few. It should have a few more options than the generic MS driver.
Also try installing ASIO4All which may help some scenarios.
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The mini USB-A dongle sound devices aren't much better than the built-in realtek device IMHO but may be more flexible since you'll at least be able to get two separate analog inputs instead of one.
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As everyone else is suggesting download and install ASIO4ALL driver. You can find it here http://www.asio4all.org . After you install it go into Ableton settings - Preferences - Audio : Driver Type should be set to ASIO and Audio Device to ASIO4ALL. It will remove crackles that you hear.
If the software you're thinking about is ASIO4ALL it is likely he doesn't need it if he's running windows 7 and up. More info here.
Yeah man, you have to use audio driver for minimum latency, go on their website (http://www.asio4all.org/) download the drivers in your language and be sure to activate your device once installed the drivers on the main panel. If you want to I can help you on reddit's dm or you can just google any guide to see how they work.
checklist:
make sure your project isn't running any VST or third-party RE's.
http://www.asio4all.org/ try this driver
reinstall your audio driver
reinstall Reason
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Hey there,
Click this link and you will be directly downloading the ASIO4ALL driver from their site. It's a low latency universal audio driver.
With Reaper closed, Install this driver.
Now launch Reaper.
Now go to Options>Preferences>Audio>Device and select ASIO, and ASIO4ALL as the options you have listed above.
You can click through on the ASIO Configuration button on this page if you with to increase or decrease latency - using the slider on the bottom left of the window that opens. But if you're just doing a podcast it's not necessary.
A full setup video is in the sidebar of this sub.
Without an onboard headphone jack, it will be difficult if not impossible.
What DAW do you use? You may be able to improve on latency by changing the audio drivers to http://www.asio4all.org/
But, you'll still have SOME latency regardless. It might be time to upgrade if this is an important feature to you.
Ok. So Audacity is a DAW. And Boss Tone Studio obviously works as a plugin in the DAW? Correct?
If so you should be able to download and install ASIo4All. This should let you choose which devices are inputs and which are outputs separately. You run Katana in Audacity and in the audio options you should be able to select ASIO and from there select ASIO4All as your driver and the choose Katana as the input and your PC as the output.
You can then run your backing track in Audacity on one track and Katana on another.
And yes. This is all a ball-ache to learn at first.
also heres a free professional quality audio driver that will work a lot better than whatevers built in to your computer... unless you have a Mac in which case the standard audio driver is fine.
Some people talk about needing to install the ASIO4ALL driver to get it to register.
If that doesn't work, someone posted about changing DAWs to Reaper here.
You can find guides for Reaper and some other DAWs at the bottom of this page. Sadly, it doesn't list Audacity.
My first thought: Your old motherboard audio may have supported ASIO, and your new one does not. ASIO is a type of driver that utilizes your audio hardware at a low level, and Pro Tools needs it to run in windows. It will say "ASIO" in the "playback engine" option. Double check if there's an ASIO option avilable for you.
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- Make sure you've installed audio drivers from the motherboard's website, in case it does come with ASIO support.
- You can install http://www.asio4all.org/ . I have to use this on my laptop when I'm working on the go. It'll work with any audio chip, it basically interrupts it at a lower level and makes it work as ASIO. You wont be able to hear youtube etc when it's running.
- You can buy an audio interface. I use one for pro tools, and I also run an audio cable from my motherboard to a spare input on my interface. That way, I can still tell windows to use the mobo out as default, and I can always hear both through my interface.
I assume you've read the ASIO4ALL FAQ ...
>ASIO4ALL requires exclusive access to the audio device. More often than not, starting the driver fails because the audio device is already in use.
http://www.asio4all.org/faq.html
So I'd enable that "Allow exclusive access" checkbox. I'm using a Focusrite Pro 24DSP and it requires both those boxes checked. Also be aware that the audio system may be "in use" even if you don't think it is. I've noticed that Firefox doesn't release the audio interface after playing a video, the Focusrite control software shows it's in use until the browser is closed. In other words, your ASIO driver may be locked "in use" by the browser then not released for FL to use (or vice versa).
You can use any VST with SAVIHost. It's a tiny free program that you put in the same folder as the VST dll (and name it the same as the dll). Just run the program and it hosts that VST for you. Just make sure you get the right one for your VST - VST2/3 32bit/64bit. The only other thing to change is the MIDI and Audio device. Paired with ASIO4ALL, it's great for playing with VSTs on a laptop or other PC that's not your main DAW workhorse.
It's slightly bigger brother, VSTHost, allows you to use more than 1 VST.
Agh. I've had similar frustrations dealing with Behringer interfaces.
Essentially, I ended up downloading "ASIO4ALL". In ASIO4ALL's GUI, enabling/disabling certain audio devices is much simpler and more explicit than Ableton's / your PC's audio config consoles.
Once downloaded, select it from the list of available drivers in ableton.
In ASIO4ALL's interface, disable all inputs and outputs that are not your behringer interface (the little glowing power icon), and make sure that the behringer interface ins/outs are powered on.
This is the only way I could get it working. It is not quite as elegant as I'd hope.
Let me know if you need additional help or anything.
I assume the Windows 10 installer doesn't work?
https://www.rode.com/rodecasterapp
Have you tried ASIO4All?
Unless /u/RODEMicrophones has a thought, other than looking through a Windows 10 install and grabbing the files and INF it uses you might be out of luch and have to upgrade (shudder) or use stand-alone.
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I'd suggest giving Asio4all a go if you don't already. It's a very good alternative to standard sound card drivers, might help things. Unfortunately, without your pc in front of me I don't really know what to suggest that may otherwise help. Hopefully some other users will chime in if this doesn't solve your issue :)
hmmm - your buffer size is 100 percent the problem anyway - especially if it was on 0. When th ebuffe ris set to zero on any interface or realtek whatever it will crackle. Take the buffer up AS HIGH AS IT WILL GO - you have latency but no crackles. Failing this - instal ASIO4ALL and use that:
First i hope you have ASIO4all installed. less taxing on your system . http://www.asio4all.org/
Make sure whatever bootleg music software didn't download something nefarious .
get your spyware & virus scan running
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and yea cut all the crap from starting up when you turn the pc on .
no boosting, no overclocking thats overkill for making music
Not sure if you're still working on this build or not, but I only recently upgraded from producing music on a low-spec PC for 6 years. Specs will depend on the kind of music being made. I used a lot of orchestral sample instruments, so disk speed and RAM were a priority. Electronic and synthesis-based music requires a better CPU. It's highly recommended to get an audio interface or USB soundcard, as built-in soundcards simply don't cut it in terms of I/O or sample rate. Per an earlier comment, you can use a built-in soundcard but you MUST use ASIO drivers in your DAW.
Midi cables (using a midicontroller with usb) / usb cable to pc the latter is the easiest since you don't have to buy midi-cables + midi-controller. Load up your favorite vst host (Cantabile for example) setup your keyboard as midi input. Load up your vst and play away. (You'll also have to set your stereo out to w/e asio device ur using (use asio to reduce latency whilst playing) my personal favorite for all this would be voicemeeter banana. But http://www.asio4all.org/ was what I used before switching to voicemeeter.
For recording you want a soundcard which runs on low latency asio drivers. Standard soundcards are built for playback, not for low-latency recording in real time. They will either have quite a lot of delay between what you play and what you hear, or dropouts and artifacts if you set a tighter latency.
Now technically you can try generic asio4all drivers ( http://www.asio4all.org/) with almost any soundcard, but your results will be better with a card that was made for this application and that comes with dedicated asio drivers from the manufacturer.
Other than that, to record an electrical signal from a guitar (or a microphone) straight into a computer you need a preamplifier and an analog/digital converter. These two elements are key to recording quality, you can spend anything between 5 bucks or 3000 bucks per channel depending on how serious you are. Your hifi soundcard will probably do somewhat alright for conversion nowadays (assuming it allows for recording at all), but it'll likely not have a great preamp.
For recording guitar with amplitube I'd absolutely look into a small portable usb audio interface. It is a box with dedicated preamp and converter that also acts as a soundcard for high quality playback. And it runs on asio drivers for low latency recording. The smaller interfaces with one or two channels often run on usb power. They also provide phantom power for microphones in case that is necessary someday.
Some popular manufacturers are focusrite, mackie, audient (I like those a lot), steinberg, presonus. There is also excellent stuff from rme, universal audio, antelope, apogee, metric halo, but they start at much higher priceranges.
I don't know about asus xonar, haven't heard of it. If it's this usb stick thingy I probably wouldn't trust it to have a preamp and converter fit for recording at an acceptable quality.
That really doesn't matter as long as you are using ASIO4ALL, and have it checked to give "exclusive access" because then it sends all that data to your external DAC and the DAC figures it all out for you. You don't Windows making any change to your signal before it gets to the DAC.
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You should also have all your volume levels maxed on your computer and using the volume knob on your DAC / AMP.
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Hope this helps clear some things up for you all.
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Here is the driver you need.
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Also, if you are not using foobar.... Start. Then google how to set it up properly for DSD and such. Good Luck!
Disable wireless and use ASIO4ALL in your DAW. This will help with your latency issues.
If you need wireless for YouTube you can download the video by adding "ss" to the address - for example https://www.ssyoutube.com/
you are on PC?
make sure you install the ASIO4ALL driver. this will reduce latency on the machine allowing you to play instruments.
once installed you have to go to abletons prefrences and change the audio device to ASIO4ALL then select the scarlett 2x2.
hope this helps. :)
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Download and install, go into Ableton's preferences and select audio settings.
Change audio driver to ASIO and that should fix the problem.
As I don't own an UMC or a Windows box I use for recording, I believe this entirely relies on the use of the ASIO4All driver set, correct?
Note that ASIO4All has been known to affect the clipping indicator and ability to change recording settings. Programs may not allow you do make these changes and you have to go into the driver settings to adjust them.
And the reason for all this is a legal issue involving the GPL conflicting with Steinberg's free ASIO API. The real solution is to get Steinberg to change their license slightly so GPL software like Audacity is able to be released with support.
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/asio_audio_interface.html
Also, the creators of Audacity give explicit instructions to programmers on how to build ASIO capable versions of Audacity. It violates all sorts of intellectual property to distribute such a functional version, however.
Having said that, I hear there is something called Internet and this so-called Internet is a vile den of copyright infringement and villainy at the best of times. Add to this something called The Google and Internet may yield interesting prebuilt binaries for the adventurous. Not that I hold any truck with this Internet thing and completely doubt the existence of The Google. Utter balderdash if you ask me.
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Seems like Windows based on your post. Have you tried installing ASIO4ALL ???
Also check this thread I googled by searching the following phrase on google: failed to open audio device ableton windows
You want to get this number as low as possible without your computer struggling to keep up.
Play with the buffer size, and get it as low as you can without hearing clipping/distortion, which is a sign you might've gone too low. The more plugins/tracks you're running, the higher this number needs to be, and the more latency (time between pressing something and hearing sound) you'll get*. You should be able to get it pretty low with something built for gaming.
Not sure about number 2 – a recording might help people with that diagnosis.
(*I'm on Mac, but last time I was on PC, a lot of people managed to get their latency a lot lower by using ASIO4ALL rather than their default soundcard.)
O bagiely remember Julian Kraus saying he had to install the UM2 driover twice to get it to register or he used ASIO4ALL and had issues with both.
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Heard back from Props support today: "I've seen reports of some audio drivers not working after the 10.3 update, and we are currently investigating why the update breaks audio driver compatibility. Until we know more, try download the ASIO4ALL driver and see if this works better with 10.3 on your computer: http://www.asio4all.org"
Alternatively, they suggested rolling back to 10.2, which is what I did. Hopefully they'll sort it out with a new update soon.
No such things in the intructions.
Only driver i could find on their website was this.
http://www.asio4all.org/
which i dont even know what that did tbh as i see no difference.
>• Some people use ASIO4ALL which will let you use your normal soundcard in low latency. In my experience (haven't used it in over a decade) it doesn't work very well, but it may do the trick for you.
No, you really didn't.
It's definitly going to be more difficult, but your positive attitude gives me faith that if anyone was going to figure it out, it would be you!
Internal audio routing can be done for free through asio-for-all. I would download that first. If that doesn't work, try JACK.
https://music.tutsplus.com/articles/working-with-internal-audio-routing-jack-audio--audio-20601
> So I am hopeful again though latency is pretty bad!
Are you using the latest ASIO4ALL drivers? These ones.
> is currently 96ms which I just can't work with personally.
Yeah, that's way too much to be usable.
> Any tips you might have are welcome
Again, unfortunately, no. I hope you find a solution, but you have to take into consideration that there simply might not be one, that's simply how things are sometimes with onboard soundcards. Also one of the reasons why we have interfaces (which are really also just soundcards).
You could try the ASIO4All 3rd party drivers.
I'm not on Windows and don't own the UMC but it should work fine. Is it being detected at all? Tried a different USB cable?
Go into Device Manager and uninstall the UMC and all its drivers, reboot, then try again with the latest Behringer drivers. Install the drivers before plugging in the hardware.
Try on a different computer. Macs don't need drivers and will auto-detect the UMC. You may have a bad unit. Call Behringer's support.
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This. I take it you're not using ASIO4ALL right now. It will let you choose the katana as the input and any other device (your laptop's sound card) as the output.
There is an alternative ASIO4All 3rd party driver you could try but the default Behringer driver is the best for this box.
If you are having issues you can skype me if you wish and we can see what can be done.
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Should work, but you might have troubles getting the USB mic (which works as it's own sound interface) to serve as your sound input at the same time while using your sound card (or interface) as the output.
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There's few workarounds for that at least. Using Jack would certainly do it, but the simplest solution is to use ASIO4ALL, which lets you combine your sound interfaces into single one Bitwig then sees.
I would recommend you try the free Kontakt Player. Kontakt also offers a free library of 50 sounds on the same page. Also, be sure to install ASIO4ALL. This is a driver that will improve latency for any VSTs.
As a computer guy, laptops often fall on the less powerful side of computing. If you end up suspecting yours to be the problem, what you need to look at is both the amount of RAM (Random Access Memory) it has and what kind of CPU (Central processing unit) it calculates with.
From what I see of your computer’s specs, it should have come with 16 gb RAM (dang more than mine) and a good CPU.
I’d venture to say your problem is likely based on the software (ie version incompatibility). Also, you may want to look into asio4all as an audio driver. I needed asio4all to get pro tools working.
Install ASIO4ALL, this is what Behringer themselves recommend. Set it to your Behringer UMC 22 and use the ASIO4ALL-driver in your DAW (recording software). This will bypass the Windows 10 settings so you won't have to worry about them and you'll have full control over your audio interface.
Good luck!
CMUSBDAC.sys is most likely for the Blue Snowball. You could upload the dump files so I can look at them, but if it's just going to show that driver then there is not much point really. If you still want me to then I will leave my copy paste on what we need from BSODs at the bottom of my post.
Two options here. Either the driver is bad or the microphone is bad. Go into Device Manager, right click on the Snowball and uninstall it. Plug it out and in to reinstall the driver. To get into Device Manager, hold the Windows key and press R. In the Run window enter "devmgmt.msc" and hit Run.
I have a Snowball as well an on my old PC it would randomly BSOD and the only thing I found that fixed it was using a third party driver. Link here. This driver is not made for the Snowball, this is a generic driver to give all microphones ASIO support. There is a lot of options given when installing, but personally I just clicked Next on everything.
The USB cable is a bit... crap.. on the Snowball and often fails. It could be worth a shot to replace this before deciding that's faulty and throwing it away.
try using this driver to decrease the latency http://www.asio4all.org/
plug the headphones into the headphone port on the focusrite. the adapter is like $0.50 https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=7139
Are you using this driver for your sound output? I don't know much about why, but it reduces latency a LOT compared to the default windows drivers.
Ableton recommends it on their official help boards as well:
https://help.ableton.com/hc/en-us/articles/209071469-Optimizing-Windows-for-Audio#soundcard
I'm definitely still a novice at guitar and recording but that being said I use Ableton and I imagine Reaper is relatively similar in that if I don't set up the input/output/drivers properly my latency goes through the roof. I switched from whatever the defaults were to asio4all for everything and that solved it.