Originally Posted By: Matt Finley
Originally Posted By: Simon - PG Music
... and it is regularly a resolution to customer problems.
I find that very interesting. If you wanted to share examples, I'm listening. If nothing else, the more of us who understand this, the more we might be able to assist users in the forum.

This typically comes up when a customer has no sound from one of our programs, and disabling "allow applications to take exclusive control of this device" often gets it working.

Allowing applications exclusive use of the sound card means that no other program can use the sound card. We haven't identified every program that can do this (of course), but it can be anything from a browser/plugin to a video game to another DAW. I'm fairly certain there are some sound card "enhancement" apps that do this.

Disabling "allow applications to take exclusive control of this device" means that the sound card is always in shared mode, and sound typically goes through the Windows mixer. I personally have never seen any ill effects of disabling that option up until today.

Last edited by Simon - PG Music; 11/17/21 12:44 PM.
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