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[yek]

is this program only to be used with a soundcard?

i was thinking i should use it for better quality of audio. at the moment i don't have a soundcard and i wanted to play with reason using a usb keyboard. do i need asio?


my sound choices in reason are asio4all that doesn't play sound, dx primary sound driver, dx speakers, mme speakers, which all have sound.

[ZiggomaticV17]

As far as I'm aware ASIO4ALL allows for multiple outputs aside from just one and better latency over DX Sound Driver.

As far as using a USB Keyboard like qwert keyboard or synth? I know renoise and FL have default support for using your PC's keyboard not sure about reason.

[Cryptowen]

I know on both computers I've used for music production (XP desktop with a 5.1 card, & an Aspire One netbook with whatever they included in it), ASIO4ALL was what I needed to use to send MIDI data out to hardware via usb or firewire.

This is with Buzz though. Never really used Reason much.

[missingsense]

ASIO4All won't increase the sound quality, but you might get lower latency on cards that don't have their own ASIO driver. that's all it does.. weird shit that it fixed your MIDI output, it's only for audio as far as I know.. but I haven't used that in ages.

[yek]

got it working

[oscillik]

missingsense, on 04 February 2012 - 01:08 PM, said:

weird shit that it fixed your MIDI output, it's only for audio as far as I know..

yup, it is only for audio, so it is definitely very very weird that it is having any effect on the MIDI. I would be inclined to say that installing ASIO4ALL drivers isn't anything to do with the MIDI stuff

[mcbpete]

Yek - In the ASIO4ALL gui you have to select your actual sound device otherwise it doesn't know how to bridge the audio protocols (plus I think leave that GUI open, though that's only from memory ...)

yek, on 04 February 2012 - 01:22 PM, said:

got it working

Oh .....

[yek]