Audio Volume Issue with ASIO

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2013/03/01 10:00:47 (permalink)

Audio Volume Issue with ASIO

Hi All,

I have had a search of the forum but cannot seem to find an answer to this issue.

I have my system set up with the VS-100 as audio I/F and control surface and my APRO as my Midi keyboard.
As recommended I have been trying the different audio drivers to find out the best one for my system.
3 of the drivers WDM/KS; ASAPI & MME(32bit) seem to work okay (albeit I haven't tested them fully) and I can control the volume using the master control on the VS-100.  However, when I switch to ASIO the output volume is very low and I have no control over the volume at all.  The master volume on the VS has no effect whatsoever.


Using the other 3 drivers I have to be careful not to turn the master volume up too much, but using ASIO I seem to have very little volume at all.



Additionally I occasionally get a 'warbling' sound as if the notes I play are being repeated (like auto-repeat on a PC keyboard). Could the two issue be linked?


Thanks in advance for any help.


Gary

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    CJaysMusic
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    Re:Audio Volume Issue with ASIO 2013/03/01 11:21:26 (permalink)
    The driver modes (ASIO / WDM) have nothing to do with volume. All you need to do is check your routing, signal chain and gain stages to see whats going on.

    FYI: Do not try MME, thats for onboard sound chips and it sucks and your audio sound cards that are made for recording do not write driver modes in MME. Its only ASIO and WDM CJ


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    Re:Audio Volume Issue with ASIO 2013/03/01 11:55:38 (permalink)
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    Re:Audio Volume Issue with ASIO 2013/03/01 14:17:40 (permalink)
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    The driver modes (ASIO / WDM) have nothing to do with volume. All you need to do is check your routing, signal chain and gain stages to see whats going on.

    FYI: Do not try MME, thats for onboard sound chips and it sucks and your audio sound cards that are made for recording do not write driver modes in MME. Its only ASIO and WDM CJ

    Thanks for that.


    However, the routing is very simple - one simple instrument track with Rapture and the APRO triggering the sounds then straight to the Master bus and out through the VS-100.  On each occasion that I changed the driver this set-up was kept exactly the same with no adjustment of the gain stages etc.  Only when I used the ASIO driver did I lose the volume, all the others were fine.

    I am aware that MME is for onboard sound which on my machine happens to be 8 channel Hi-Def Audio!  Anyway, I don't intend to use MME, but just used it on this occasion to see if I had the same problem as the ASIO driver, which I didn't.  It worked fine.



    Any suggestions as to what's causes the stuttering?

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    Re:Audio Volume Issue with ASIO 2013/03/01 14:31:43 (permalink)
    Then your writings are changing when switching driver modes. So check all the signal chain as Driver modes will never ever change your volume. Driver modes has nothing to do with volume. its like 1 +1 will always equal 2.


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    Re:Audio Volume Issue with ASIO 2013/03/01 14:34:14 (permalink)
    WDI ,you also asking what magical codec there is for this. Just get any decent MP3 encoder and you can encode t o128 without any artifacts.

    There is no magic. I don't understand why you would think there is a magical MP3 codec. Converting to 128 bitrate wihtout any artifacts is a common practice when you have any decent Mp3 encoder

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    Re:Audio Volume Issue with ASIO 2013/03/01 21:00:20 (permalink)
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    Then your writings are changing when switching driver modes. So check all the signal chain as Driver modes will never ever change your volume. Driver modes has nothing to do with volume. its like 1 +1 will always equal 2.


    CJ

    That certainly makes sense which is why I guess I was confused by the issue.  I'll go back and start over and see what's changing.


    Thanks CJ


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