The new Steinberg built-in ASIO Driver

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Hi there

I just found that the new Steinberg built-in ASIO Driver is free to download for anyone

It seems working better than WASAPI, and also better than ASIO4ALL, so I put the link here

With it, I am able to have a Sample rate of 96000 Hz, a latency of 10 ms and no crackles, that is astounding to me

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Considering that it is a generic ASIO driver developed to work with any sound-card, it means that the ASIO of some cheap cards (my old one included) is poor, very poor

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I tried it out, but you can’t make any changes to buffer size in the control panel…

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Yep - very sluggish. Built in audio via ASIO4ALL is nicely running 128 sample buffer over here. I can immediately feel the slow response of the Steinberg driver without even looking at the numbers.

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Yes, it is in the Help
You have to change it in your DAW or Windows
But I was unable to have certain performances with the ASIO of my sound-card

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Each system/people is different
YMMV

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Anyway, I believe I have no place in this forum because my mileage is too much different from yours

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Were you able to change it in Cantabile? I tried but it doesn’t give me any other option but 480 for the buffer size.

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I see the instruction as to how to put the buffer into variable mode but the functionality doesn’t appear. ~What’s the secret?

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Steinberg website:

“Sufficiently low latency” at 480 samples buffer? hmmm…

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I think the underlying WASPI driver has to support buffer size change (at least with ASIO4ALL). The Steinberg and ASIO4ALL are just wrappers/bridges for WASPI. My WASPI does not support buffer size and no way to change it in Steinberg anyway apparently. I change it in ASIO4ALL and it crashed the WASPI driver immediately.

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Maybe they think everybody runs at 768KHz sample rate? lol!