gear driver and latency (and frame size)

[Dimitri Muskens]

I'm sure this subject is dealt with in one way or another here there and everywhere, and I've looked but get confused, sorry :/

simply, trying to improve my audio profile I have found that....

driver wdm -> frame size 10 and latency 4
driver asio4all -> I can lower the frame size to 1 but the latency rises to 12 (if I leave the frame size at 10 the latency rises to 30 !)

I thought that asio is the way to go but that doesn't seem to be the case.

I suspect there must be another parameter I'm not manipulating..... help, ideas please, thanks in advance

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Hi Ian, it is strongly recommended to use ASIO drivers dedicated to your audio device.

asio4all is merely a [generic audio driver/type of wrapper for the windows WDM driver] to accommodate devices that do not have dedicated asio, for situations you can not do without 'asio'. (e.g. Jamulus won't even start without it)


If you're not actually using an external audio interface/sound card, or there is no dedicated ASIO-driver available for your gear, asio4all could help. However, I've seen many situations in which the WDM driver way outperforms asio4all. Especially with onboard sound cards in laptops.