Saffire 6 USB owners: ASIO or WDM drivers?

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2012/04/10 15:47:27 (permalink)

Saffire 6 USB owners: ASIO or WDM drivers?

A question for Saffire 6 USB owners: do you guys use ASIO or WDM drivers for your interface, and which driver gives lower latency? Thx

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    Sidroe
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    Re:Saffire 6 USB owners: ASIO or WDM drivers? 2012/04/10 16:39:20 (permalink)
    I have always used ASIO drivers on my MOTU 24io and when I recently bought a Saffire 6 USB for my laptop I saw no reason to change. I couldn't resist trying it on my studio computer and it was very nice. Even being USB ver.1 didn't seem to slow it down one bit. I do wish they would have included an insert jack on the preamps. I do like to run a compressor on vocals just to catch peaks while tracking. I have never had really good results with WDM drivers. Ever! Even using the old multimedia drivers were better. I don't know why. ASIO has been very, very good. The Saffire is definitely a great buy.

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    perfectprint
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    Re:Saffire 6 USB owners: ASIO or WDM drivers? 2012/04/10 16:48:53 (permalink)
    asio

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