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Old 10-11-2019, 03:43 PM
Darryl Ramm Darryl Ramm is offline
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Default Re: No headset audio when using ASIO4ALL required for video playback

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Originally Posted by Jim_Norman View Post
Darryl,

Thank you for the suggestion. I am not familiar with them. Do you have any models to suggest? Do they come with drivers which would be selected in the Playback Engine selection?

Thanks.
Jim
Right, ASIO is a high-end audio interface standard for Windows. Developed years ago by Steinberg, and then used by lots of other folks including Avid. What ASIO4ALL does is wrap a standard Windows Audio driver and make it look like an ASIO driver... but thats very inefficient and does not give you the real capability/performance/robustness of an ASIO interactive. All ASIO interfaces will come with their own ASIO audio drivers (they will also have Windows audio drivers so other apps can use them if needed) and will show up directly as option in the Pro Tools playback engine once you install those ASIO drivers.

Interfaced vary in capability from one or two inputs and a stereo output to high-end studio systems. And prices for ~$100 to $10k+. One of the important things with any interface is how much the vendor keeps their ASIO drivers up to date and the general level of support they provide. Interfaces also differ on the amount of hardware monitoring capabilities they provide... that may be important to you if you are going to track (record) using that interface, but none of that may matter to you. What might matter more are say the number of headphone outputs, the quality of those outputs, and monitor control (think main volume control, ... up to multiple pairs of speakers, subwoofer monitoring etc. on high-end systems).

Good vendors I'd look come from UAD (but needs Thunderbolt), MOTU, RME. Focusrite and Presonus make interesting lower price products but Focusrite seem to have had a lot of driver issues, and some of the Presonus stuff has not sounded as great as other systems, ... but that's subjective. You can go to Sweetwater.com and see what interfaces are available... almost all will have ASIO drivers... and you can confirm by looking at specs or driver downloads on the vendor websites.

If you explain what USB (or Thunderbolt) connections you have on your computer (do you need the interface to be portable?) , what analog (and any digital?) inputs/outputs you need, and your budget, then people here can make specific suggestions.

Last edited by Darryl Ramm; 10-11-2019 at 04:00 PM.
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