ASIO playback plugin 0.37

[brian]

It works just great - more unbounded respect to the amazing shaohao!

[krazyd]

Is there anyone else who has trouble using this plugin with an M-Audio Revolution set to Digital output?

[Spidercrab]

A great release. Thanks for this.

Working fine for me on Revo with Analogue O/P with MAD I/P.

[krazyd]

Hmmm. I can get it working with analogue output, just not digital, but I think I am not understanding the whole ASIO thing correctly. M-Audio tech support says:

Actually, if I understand you correctly, this IS the way it should work. If you choose ASIO you will hear the analog outs, if you choose S/PDIF, you will hear the digital out.

I have 'Digital' selected as my 'Current set' in the soundcard settings. All is fine using WaveOut or Directsound in QCD. If I switch to ASIO, sound output gets sent to the analogue outputs of my card (with 'Digital' still selected). Does anyone know if this is really what is supposed to happen?
:confused:

[jawpr]

A great release. Thanks for this.

Working fine for me on Revo with Analogue O/P with MAD I/P.


Please help - I have Revo 7.1 sound card on WINXP. Can not get ASIO to work.
I remember from the old forum that you need to copy a file or 2 to system 32 and can not remember just what it is and what to do. Please explain again how to get it to work. Thanks!

[Spidercrab]

I just tried the Digital O/P and this appears to work OK. (I use the analogue O/P because this sounds "better" to my ears.)

I didn't do anything special to get this working. I am running XP SP1 with latest Security Rollup and the latest ASIO plug-in. My M-Audio Revo driver is 5.10.00.0051 according to the M-Audio control panel. I have not changed anyting other than the Analogue O/P speaker selection / Digital O/P selection. In the M-Audion Control Panel for Input/Output the ASIO buffer setting remains unchanged at 512. I noticed that "Enable Monitoring" is greyed out. There is No SUrround processing and Bass Management is unchecked.

I can also use the QCD default MP3 decoder but currently use the latest MAD decoder.

I hope this helps.

[jawpr]

I just tried the Digital O/P and this appears to work OK. (I use the analogue O/P because this sounds "better" to my ears.)

I didn't do anything special to get this working. I am running XP SP1 with latest Security Rollup and the latest ASIO plug-in. My M-Audio Revo driver is 5.10.00.0051 according to the M-Audio control panel. I have not changed anyting other than the Analogue O/P speaker selection / Digital O/P selection. In the M-Audion Control Panel for Input/Output the ASIO buffer setting remains unchanged at 512. I noticed that "Enable Monitoring" is greyed out. There is No SUrround processing and Bass Management is unchecked.

I can also use the QCD default MP3 decoder but currently use the latest MAD decoder.

I hope this helps.

Thanks, SpiderCrabb. Your help is greatly appreciated.

[krazyd]

I just tried the Digital O/P and this appears to work OK. (I use the analogue O/P because this sounds "better" to my ears.)

I didn't do anything special to get this working. I am running XP SP1 with latest Security Rollup and the latest ASIO plug-in. My M-Audio Revo driver is 5.10.00.0051 according to the M-Audio control panel. I have not changed anyting other than the Analogue O/P speaker selection / Digital O/P selection. In the M-Audion Control Panel for Input/Output the ASIO buffer setting remains unchanged at 512. I noticed that "Enable Monitoring" is greyed out. There is No SUrround processing and Bass Management is unchecked.

I can also use the QCD default MP3 decoder but currently use the latest MAD decoder.

I hope this helps.
Yes, thanks. Looks like the problem is at my end... :(

[brian]

Unfortunately I have to temper my original enthusiasm somewhat - when the ASIO plugin is in use, CPU usage sticks at 100%. Everything's fine apart from that, though, unlike with the previous release.

[Spidercrab]

Unfortunately I have to temper my original enthusiasm somewhat - when the ASIO plugin is in use, CPU usage sticks at 100%. Everything's fine apart from that, though, unlike with the previous release.
Weird. Right now, I get between 7% and 13% when playing QCD via ASIO and 4 other applications open (but not doing anything) and NAV 2003 and Outpost Pro Firewall running.

This is on a modest system - AMD XP1600 with 512Mb PC2700 ram.

[jawpr]

Unfortunately I have to temper my original enthusiasm somewhat - when the ASIO plugin is in use, CPU usage sticks at 100%. Everything's fine apart from that, though, unlike with the previous release.


Hoorah! I finally got Asio working . I found mine had Creative asio selected even though Creative has been removed. I wish I knew how to get rid of whatever it left on my system. Anyway, I changed the selection to m-audio asio and everything is working now. Mine is using 16 to 24% CPU except when it changes songs and then it jumps to 40,60 or 80% cpu for a second and then drops back to normal. I still have the creative speakers for now until I find some extra money.

[Spidercrab]

I see the same thing on my system. Before my Revo I had an SB Live which I threw as far as I could and uninstalled all SB software. However, my system still thinks there is a Creative ASIO driver somewhere.

[jawpr]

I see the same thing on my system. Before my Revo I had an SB Live which I threw as far as I could and uninstalled all SB software. However, my system still thinks there is a Creative ASIO driver somewhere.

If you ever find out how to get rid of it, please let me know. Thanks again for your help.

[jawpr]

I just tried the Digital O/P and this appears to work OK. (I use the analogue O/P because this sounds "better" to my ears.)

I didn't do anything special to get this working. I am running XP SP1 with latest Security Rollup and the latest ASIO plug-in. My M-Audio Revo driver is 5.10.00.0051 according to the M-Audio control panel. I have not changed anyting other than the Analogue O/P speaker selection / Digital O/P selection. In the M-Audion Control Panel for Input/Output the ASIO buffer setting remains unchanged at 512. I noticed that "Enable Monitoring" is greyed out. There is No SUrround processing and Bass Management is unchecked.

I can also use the QCD default MP3 decoder but currently use the latest MAD decoder.

I hope this helps.



Spidercrab - I just tried to install the beta version 0051 on my system. I downloaded it and uninstalled the driver 0041 in device manger/sounds/properties/m-audio/driver and then installed the beta 0051 and closed and restarted my computer but when I check the driver version, it still says I have 0041 installed. What did I do wrong? I tried this twice and both times it shows 0041 as being installed. Thanks

[Spidercrab]

Spidercrab - I just tried to install the beta version 0051 on my system. I downloaded it and uninstalled the driver 0041 in device manger/sounds/properties/m-audio/driver and then installed the beta 0051 and closed and restarted my computer but when I check the driver version, it still says I have 0041 installed. What did I do wrong? I tried this twice and both times it shows 0041 as being installed. Thanks
All I can think that I did different is that I probably just installed the Revo driver over the previos one. I also would have installed each new driver over the previous version as each one became available, starting from the CD drivers.

You could try asking M-Audio.

[jawpr]

All I can think that I did different is that I probably just installed the Revo driver over the previos one. I also would have installed each new driver over the previous version as each one became available, starting from the CD drivers.

You could try asking M-Audio.

Thanks - I'll try installing over the top

[brian]

Shaohao, I've still got the problem that my CPU sticks at 100% usage when the ASIO plugin is active, which I just can't live with. Do you have any idea why this is happening, please? Do you have any plans to update the plugin which might fix the problem? It's frustrating not being able to use the plugin all the time, when the sound is so fantastic! Many thanks.

[refused]

Hey all,

I've never used ASIO before but figured I'd give it a shot today - I've got a Creative Audigy, and I get this oddly contradictory error message when I try to play something with the plugin selected:

[jawpr]

Shaohao, I've still got the problem that my CPU sticks at 100% usage when the ASIO plugin is active, which I just can't live with. Do you have any idea why this is happening, please? Do you have any plans to update the plugin which might fix the problem? It's frustrating not being able to use the plugin all the time, when the sound is so fantastic! Many thanks.

brian - I have WinXP home edition with m-audio sound card and I am using asio and mad plug-in. My TOTAL CPU runs around 20%. When I first started using them I had a problem, but I found out it had Creative asio instead of m-audio selected. I changed that and it has been doing fine since.

[brian]

jawpr - thanks for your news, but unfortunately it doesn't take me any further forward! I've already tried playing with every setting in sight but it makes no difference. I hope shaohao will see this and will feel able to advise me.

[jawpr]

jawpr - thanks for your news, but unfortunately it doesn't take me any further forward! I've already tried playing with every setting in sight but it makes no difference. I hope shaohao will see this and will feel able to advise me.

I wasn't trying to be smart, just helpful. Hope Shaohao can get it fixed for you.

Shaohao??

[shaohao]

I wasn't trying to be smart, just helpful. Hope Shaohao can get it fixed for you.

Shaohao??

ASIO playback plug-in works fine on my system. en..... I'll updaed it sonn.
But something you must know that I just rewrite the source code of ASIO output plug-in for winamp to make it work for QCD.

[brian]

Shaohao - thank you for taking the trouble to reply. Can you think of any reason why my CPU would run at 100% when the plugin is active, please? Many thanks once again.

[shaohao]

Shaohao - thank you for taking the trouble to reply. Can you think of any reason why my CPU would run at 100% when the plugin is active, please? Many thanks once again.

:( Sorry! I don't know.

[refused]

Are you resampling? Because that can use a lot of CPU AFAIK.

[brian]

refused - I think you're on to something. If I disable resampling, CPU usage drops to a sensible level. But the difficulty I'm left with is that many of my favourite streaming audio stations (on SpinAmp and Live365) simply won't play at all when I have resampling disabled (ShoutCast stations seem to be OK). Any ideas about this, please? Many thanks for your kind advice.

[refused]

Well, I hear you, because ASIO won't play at all unless I resample, but resampling is quite CPU intensive and renders my computer basically unusable... You could try manually setting the sampling output on your soundcard to whatever the appropriate level is.

For me, this means going to AudioHQ (I have a SB Audigy) -> Device Controls -> Digital Out Sampling Rate.

I don't know if it works or not, but it's worth a shot I suppose.

[brian]

No, unfortunately experimenting with the sampling rate makes no difference. I wonder why I can play some radio stations without resampling but not others? There's also no problem now with playing MPCs from my hard drive. But anyway, after hearing of your situation perhaps I should be glad I can play anything at all! I wish we had an ASIO expert in the forums who could step in and throw light on these mysteries! Thanks again.

[refused]

I'm afraid there isn't much you can do other than lower the CPU priority of the resampler/ASIO playback in the plugin prefs.

[warre]

With latest dev. build of QCD (B67) and Asio plugin v.0.37 timedisplay do not work, had to go back using Asio plugin v.0.26i.

I'm using Terratec Aureon Space 7.1 sound card if that is relevant.

[jawpr]

With latest dev. build of QCD (B67) and Asio plugin v.0.37 timedisplay do not work, had to go back using Asio plugin v.0.26i.

I'm using Terratec Aureon Space 7.1 sound card if that is relevant.

The timer display does not work for me either using asio 0.37 - I guess we will just have to wait until he gets around to upgrading that plug-in. Sure hope that will be soon!

[Miester_V]

Well, I hear you, because ASIO won't play at all unless I resample, but resampling is quite CPU intensive and renders my computer basically unusable...
I face the same situation as you. I have Audigy 1 w/A2 drivers.