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Device aggregation

Using the button next to each entry, you can now selectively enable/disable each particular item in the device list. This way, you can also create multi-device-setups (“aggregate devices”) .

Multi-device-setups require that all the devices involved are running from the same clock source. You can achieve this by daisy-chaining devices via S/PDIF etc.

On-board devices usually share a common clock source.

USB devices come in three flavors in this regard:

  1. Synchronous
  2. Asynchronous
  3. Adaptive

Only synchronous devices will adjust their audio clock to the USB clock of the computer and hence are likely to have no problems working together with other devices in the same setup. Ironically, these will be the cheapest devices on the market, as they use chips that do not even need a crystal for audio clocking.

For future versions of ASIO4ALL, there is a plan to automatically compensate for clock frequency drift.

  • Device aggregation

    Device aggregation

    Using the button next to each entry, you can now selectively enable/disable each particular item in the device list. This way, you can also create multi-device-setups (“aggregate devices”) . Multi-device-setups require that all the devices involved are running from the same clock source. You can achieve this by daisy-chaining devices via S/PDIF etc. On-board devices… more

  • Latency Compensation

    Latency Compensation

    Since ASIO4ALL does not have sufficient knowledge of the underlying hardware/driver architecture, it can only guess the actual latencies involved. With these sliders you can compensate for the latencies unknown to ASIO4ALL such that recordings in your sequencer software are properly aligned with the rest. Note: In multi-device-setups the largest respective value of all devices… more

  • Hardware buffer

    Hardware buffer

    Note: For WaveRT drivers, this box is labeled “Allow Pull Mode (WaveRT)” instead! Enables the hardware buffer for the highlighted device. This only works for so called “WavePCI” miniports, as other types of WDM drivers do not usually allow direct access to the hardware buffer. Adjustment for best hardware buffer performance involves the “ASIO Buffer… more