ASIO vs MME.

My recommendation is to always choose ASIO ....IF..... your sound card supports it.

Some of the factory sound cards can't use it efficiently. Most all of the pro-level interfaces not only support it but recommend it.

MME is OK if you can get it to work well. My experience has been that MME doesn't work well with my audio software on this machine I use now.... or even in the past. ASIO4ALL is a wrapper that tried to fool the audio card into thinking it's working with ASIO when it's actually running MME. (or something like that)....either way, I have never had success running A4A on any of my computers. I've always taken the time to set my external (focusrite) interface up with ASIO as per the mfg's suggestion.

As a result, my DAW and PG software runs nicely on the Focusrite with ASIO. Depending on what I'm doing at the moment, I have to remember to load the DAW first to get ASIO.... everything else will then grab MME and they all run just fine like that.

I've heard some folks say they couldn't get ASIO to run reliably and had to use MME which they were able to get to run fine. If that works for you, then by all means, use what does work.

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