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Hi, I have been checking out RealBand. Looks good and I like how we can use RealTracks. Earlier I installed my Roland QuadCapture Audio Interface. Also the Sonar LE software that came with it. Now when I open RealBand it is asking me if I want to configure the ASIO driver to us in RealBand.

I forget where I installed that. I guess in Sonar. I wasn't paying attention to that. Should I configure this driver for RealBand? I am just about to do it.

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let it install ASIO for RB.... it knows where it is. ASIO works the best if you have the hardware that is designed to run on ASIO.


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Depends on how much processor you have.Some of the newer progs were designed around ASIO drivers. RB being more designed around MME is quite processor intensive.This is becoming less of an issue as time passes and processors become faster but if you're running an older machine you may have issues. If you do just go back to ASIO.There are only 3 resons you need ASIO
1.Playing a software synth in real time with a controller
2.Using effects that can be heard during recording
3.Access to multiplt ins/outs if restricted by your sound card. Otherwise no advantage to ASIO.


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From personal experience, ASIO gives the best performance hands down over the other drivers. Latency is so low it's virtually non-existent in my system. Switch to MME or WDM and latency is so thick it's impossible to adjust out to work with the project using synths.

This from Wikipedia referencing ASIO.

ASIO bypasses the normal audio path from a user application through layers of intermediary Windows operating system software so that an application connects directly to the sound card hardware. Each layer that is bypassed means a reduction in latency (the delay between an application sending audio information and it being reproduced by the sound card, or input signals from the sound card being available to the application). In this way ASIO offers a relatively simple way of accessing multiple audio inputs and outputs independently. Its main strength lies in its method of bypassing the inherently high latency and poor-quality mixing and sample rate conversion of Windows NT 5.x audio mixing kernels (KMixer)[citation needed], allowing direct, high speed communication with audio hardware. Unlike KMixer, an unmixed ASIO output is "bit identical" or "bit perfect"; that is, the bits sent to or received from the audio interface are identical to those of the original source, thus potentially providing higher audio fidelity. In addition, ASIO supports 24-bit samples, unlike Windows NT 5.x MME and DirectSound which truncate 24-bit samples to the upper 16 bits, whereas Windows NT 6.x mixer provides 32-bit floating point output. Higher bit-depth samples offer the potential for a higher signal-to-noise ratio.


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