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If you think the situation is bad on Mac, you e never had to fight with ASIO on Windows. On Mac stuff basically just works. On Windows ASIO works with only AS
by TylerE 2y ago
If you think the situation is bad on Mac, you e never had to fight with ASIO on Windows.
On Mac stuff basically just works.
On Windows ASIO works with only ASIO, and doesn’t allow the OS to use the card for “regular” sound unless the device-specific driver allows for it.
Edit: Or in most cases for two ASIO applications to use the same soundcard at the same time. So you end up needing to install a virtual loopback anyway, losing out on the (theoretical) latency benefits of ASIO.
- com2kid 2y agoIt is unfortunate, the old windows media stack had a nice drag and drop UI that let you connect different inputs and sinks together in all sorts of weird and cool ways. Back when I used Windows 2000 I was able plug a game console into a capture card and split the audio and video inputs so they both went out over streaming video and were visible/audible on my local machine. Not that anyone cared about watching live streamed video game footage back in 2001 or so.
- TylerE 2y agoThe problem with the old apis (and this includes directsound) is that they are incapable of stabling running at low latency, which is crucial for recording.