playback plugins

[prash78]

I new to QCD and using direct sound playback plug-in. I've read talk about other plugins. Whats the benefits of these? and where would I be able to get them from?

[niqo]

Crossfading plugin grants u crossfading and gapless transitions between tracks - both featurs are great.

Others require less CPU and memory, but the difference between them is not clear for me.

There's one more playback plugin called ASIO (available for downloading). Many talks about it, but no idea, what does it give, because it doesn't work on my system.
BTW, can anybody explain, what is ASIO, and why it might not work?

[chronic]

here's some info


"ASIO (Audio Stream Input/Output), developed by Steinberg, is a cross-platform, multi-channel audio transfer protocol that is being adopted by many of the manufacturers of audio/MIDI sequencing applications. It allows software to have access to the multi-channel capabilities of a wide range of powerful sound cards.

ASIO expands on the basic capabilities of a standard computer sound card, most of which can only provide stereo (two-channel) audio input and output. The ASIO specification defines the interface that manufacturers of professional audio sound cards must use to create an ASIO driver for their hardware. This driver allows the host audio/MIDI application to "see" all of the inputs and outputs available on the sound card. The user can then assign these I/O ports as needed for recording or playback when using an ASIO-compatible software program. This allows the users to record more tracks simultaneously than the previous limitation of two channels imposed by a standard sound card."

hope that helps to clarify

[brian]

chronic - that's very informative. Can you by any chance shed light on the problems some of us are having with the ASIO plugin for QCD, please? The main issue seems to concern resampling; please see the thread in the Plugin General Discussion part of the forum (which is where this thread really ought to be). Many thanks.