My issue with MME drivers is that the mixer reacts very slowly. When I need to boost or cut something on the fly I have to guess how many beats lead time I need before I will hear the boost or the cut. I was able to get ASIO to work one time, and that day the mixer responded in real time. The next time I hit play, I got the standard "ASIO is messed up" error.

Now as we follow these driver threads, there are 2 camps. One camps suggests using the ASIO no matter what it takes to get them to work, and use the MME as a fallback if the ASIO doesn't work. Now we see someone say "last resort".

Is there a definitive article somewhere that addresses this? We ought to put this debate to rest already.

In my case, 4 different people told me to update drovers for my M-Audio interface. I have had the latest M-Audio drivers all along. This batch says right on the M-Audio site that they are THE drivers for ASIO use with the M-Audio and there will never be an issue if you use this driver. I installed them and got the same error I had with ASIO4ALL.

Is ASIO4ALL supposed to be a generic ASIO driver that will solve world hunger? I have not really seen any feedback here that says it works consistently or not.

Can we get some people weighing in on that specific topic? What you use as far as sound card/interface and driver? I tried ASIO4ALL. I put them on my Dell, loaded RB, for the first load and launch it was fine. Worked with the mixer, the volume responded in real time. Muting and soloing of tracks happened immediately when I clicked. When I loaded the second song in and hit play, I got ASIO errors. I don't have enough experience with this topic to know better. Can we have some meaningful discussion? I really loved the 5:24 everything worked in real time. The next minute started the "not so much" part.....

Thoughts?