[PD] portaudio compatibility with some ASIO drivers (Windows only)

[Stefano Papetti]

Hans-Christoph Steiner ha scritto:
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> Maybe its due to the version of ASIO in use?  I just upgraded the 
> build farm to use ASIO 2.2, so nightly builds of Pd-extended are using 
> that.
I tried the latest autobuild of pd-extended 0.42-5 for windows but it 
doesn't work: after executing pd nothing happens and I don't even see 
the process pd.exe in task manager. I guess it just crashes.

S
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> .hc
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> On Jun 30, 2009, at 2:53 PM, Stefano Papetti wrote:
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>> Hello,
>>
>> I noticed that pd (at least recent versions of both vanilla and 
>> extended) and other portaudio-based applications (e.g. Audacity) 
>> don't see some ASIO drivers: namely, the RME Fireface 800 and 
>> REAPER's ReaRoute ASIO drivers.
>>
>> I found several posts in different forums around about both issues, 
>> and I've drawn the following conclusions:
>> - the RME ASIO driver simply doesn't work, and nobody actually knows 
>> why... However some people report to get ultra-low latencies (3ms) 
>> with the MMIO drivers. Moreover, even with the MMIO driver they can 
>> use the multi-channel capability of the RME only when set at 48000 Hz 
>> (but this is another story...). I will ask RME directly about these 
>> issues.
>> - the ReaRoute ASIO driver is blacklisted by portaudio (as of v19) 
>> and therefore discarded...
>> The latter is my most urgent problem because I need to route audio 
>> from pd to REAPER with the lowest possible latency/cpu load.
>> Please help!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> S
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