Asio help

totally_mental · January 29, 2009, 12:16:13

ok last help thread I promise! you must be getting sick of me haha!
I DID try and search & although I found lots of Asio related things, the error message I searched for didn't come up.

I get a 'unable to open sound device!' message. I'm using an M-audio 192 audiophile I think it's called. and Asio works with other stuff I have.

LPChip · January 29, 2009, 12:25:01

Its known for ASIO to only allow one connection to it at a time.

Are you perhaps using another audio program that has the ASIO connection opened? If so, it can block MODPlug from initialising the ASIO soundsystem.

My advice would be to close all sound related applications except OpenMPT, and then try to set the sound to Asio.

If that still doesn't work, make sure that you set it to the correct settings, like 44.1 khz, 16 bit stereo. Even if you prefer other settings, getting it to work should be your first priority, tweaking it from there, step by step, is the next one.

Saga Musix · January 29, 2009, 18:34:03

Your second advice regarding bitrate is nice, but useless. The soundcard (or rather, the sound driver) tells the application which bitrate it has to work in. So there shouldn't be any bitrate problems, the card chooses the bitrate (e.g. 32bit) itself.

LPChip · January 29, 2009, 18:46:58

Quote from: "Jojo"Your second advice regarding bitrate is nice, but useless. The soundcard (or rather, the sound driver) tells the application which bitrate it has to work in. So there shouldn't be any bitrate problems, the card chooses the bitrate (e.g. 32bit) itself.

I mentioned just to be on the safe side X)

psishock · January 29, 2009, 20:17:23

Safe.... from Jojo

? You gotta be kiddin' me.

Relabsoluness · January 29, 2009, 21:07:49

Quote from: "LPChip"If that still doesn't work, make sure that you set it to the correct settings, like 44.1 khz, 16 bit stereo.

This certainly isn't a useless advice -- changing these settings can indeed make the ASIO work.

Saga Musix · January 29, 2009, 21:55:29

The sampling rate, yes. but the bit depth shouldn't be an issue. I tried to set it to 16bit anyway; it will be reset to 32bit on my ASIO device.

psishock · January 29, 2009, 21:59:34

i can do ASIO on 16bit.

Saga Musix · January 29, 2009, 22:01:03

That's because your device supports it then.

psishock · January 29, 2009, 22:03:15

oh, ic ^^

uncloned · January 30, 2009, 17:56:52

have you tried :

http://www.asio4all.com/

?

it even gets Vista to work mostly right.

Saga Musix · January 30, 2009, 18:14:20

it gets vista to work? unbelievable... :O
:lol:

uncloned · January 30, 2009, 18:19:44

yep

My Quad is a Vista 64 machine. Sonar would not see the on board audio until I installed ASIO 4 All

I ended up putting a Audigy in the box as well and ASIO4ALL got that to work properly as well.

Vista does suck when it comes to supporting real audio programs. just sucks.

I can understand that they changed the driver model - but when programs, like Sonar, that are written expressly for Vista have trouble... come on.

On the other hand I have www.virtualbox.org an XP pro install running in a virtual machine that is really fast and owrks great - even with streaming video/sound it only takes up about 35% of the CPU.

My install of Windows 98 for Fast Tracker II compatibility didn't go so well though... - I'm trying dosbox next.

Sam_Zen · January 30, 2009, 19:22:26

Yep. FTII definitely needs real dos.
Asio 4 all is quite good.

Saga Musix · January 30, 2009, 19:44:10

on a good win98 setup (read: with a real SB/GUS card), FT2 and IT will also run smoothly.