What ASIO should I be using

[SwamiRob]

Been borrowing a mates line 6 toneport, and while I can get it to record pretty smoothly using the toneport's own ASIO, the only way of getting playback is to use the aux input of my speakers which means I it ends up in mono due to me not having the right cables to get away with it.

Anyway, regardless it'd be cool if I could just use my soundcard for playback, it's a creative card so it's not great for this kinda thing, and I'll probably still have to use the toneports aux out for monitoring, but for listening back and mixing obviously having a decent stereo output is kinda helpful.

I've tried setting up the "multimedia ASIO" and something I have on my computer for a reason I've forgotten about called "ASIO 4 all", neither of which seem to want to work. So any help getting an ASIO that will let me record with the toneport and playback with my soundcard would be awesome.

 

[tk421]

ASIO 4 All is the only way i can get sound out of my speakers on my Creative soundcard while using a 1/4" to USB cable (that has a built in C-Media USB sound bridge).

ASIO wants to use the same device for input and output - asio4all's settings can bypass this.

 

[Joe Nerve]

what he said. http://www.asio4all.com/

 

[adammazza]

You should be using the TonePort ASIO driver. ASIO4ALL should be a last resort if your audio card manufacturer does not offer and ASIO complian driver.

 

[Joe Nerve]

I have a toneport and I don't remember what issues I was having with their driver, but all issues ended when I switched to asio4all.

 

[SwamiRob]

With the toneport I have no stereo playback though since (obviously) it doesn't output to the creative card.

Managed to get ASIO 4 all working though, didn't try recording with it yet though, need to play with the settings too.

 

[Jim Roseberry]

Always use the audio interface's native ASIO driver.
ASIO4ALL wraps a WDM driver (to create and ASIO driver) for audio cards that don't provide one.

The native ASIO driver is always your best option.

Regarding monitoring:
Monitor via the Toneport. It's going to be better than using a Soundblaster.

 

[SwamiRob]

Yeah I imagined it would be, it's just a matter of hooking it up to my speakers so it'll work with the sub too since it's a surround system, hardly studio quality monitoring I know but I could probably do with low end of some persuasion so I can keep tabs on it.

Also, on some recording I did when I was just messing about with the whole thing there was a bit of intermittent cracking, what values on my control panel do I need to be turning down to avoid this? My computers reasonably decent, got a dual core 2.3 GHz and 3 gig of RAM (since XP doesn't recognise all 4) so it should be able to cope with reasonable quality shouldn't it? Obviously in the studio again you'd have something alot more powerful, although I don't quite understand all the values beyond the latency thing regarding processing power, turning down certain values for recording I assume makes audio quality worse.