Linear Phase
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Whoever said the WDM drivers are better than Asio; I think you have turned out to be right
My install never recovered from my registry, "reg cleaner debacle," so I just did a fresh install. Anyways, Sonar defaults to the WDM, I didn't notice that first time around... and it seems very solid.. even more solid than I had it before.
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daveny5
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Re:Whoever said the WDM drivers are better than Asio; I think you have turned out to be ri
2012/07/16 20:57:35
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They may be better for your setup, but in general, they are not better.
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Re:Whoever said the WDM drivers are better than Asio; I think you have turned out to be ri
2012/07/16 20:59:09
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One is not better than the other. The better one is the one that works best for your system.
What works best for you, may not work best for someone else. There are too many variables!!!
Cj
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Re:Whoever said the WDM drivers are better than Asio; I think you have turned out to be ri
2012/07/16 21:02:51
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I had latencey problems with drivers other than ASIO drivers. I can't remember if the WDM drivers are the one that gave me problems or not, but I do know that once I switched over to the ASIO drivers, my latency problems went away. This was very evident while trying to do multi-track recordings.
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Re:Whoever said the WDM drivers are better than Asio; I think you have turned out to be ri
2012/07/16 21:07:34
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They seem to work fine in most systems. Seems like they work when ASIO won't. I use ASIO with my main DAW because I remember hearing on a tutorial that they were the industry standard. Kinda like the Pro tools of drivers. But who knows. I've never noticed any difference in sound quality or any lack of performance or anything. Let us know how it goes.
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Re:Whoever said the WDM drivers are better than Asio; I think you have turned out to be ri
2012/07/16 21:33:18
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As far as I know ASIO has the potential to perform better (in theory) because it eliminates passing audio through the Windows kernel- so audio data can go directly from your interface to your DAW. In practice, many vendors write a bad driver for either WDM or ASIO. In some cases WDM turns out to be more stable, plus it has the advantage of using multiple interfaces, where ASIO only allows the use of one.
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Re:Whoever said the WDM drivers are better than Asio; I think you have turned out to be ri
2012/07/16 21:42:50
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I have gone back and forth from ASIO to WDM. Sometimes in one OS, DAW product or version one will run better than another (in the same machine). It's weird.
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Re:Whoever said the WDM drivers are better than Asio; I think you have turned out to be ri
2012/07/16 22:05:42
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Never had a problem with either, both are stable, but I get lower latency with ASIO.
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Re:Whoever said the WDM drivers are better than Asio; I think you have turned out to be ri
2012/07/16 22:08:27
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WDM used to work better for my Echo setup, hands down, but now ASIO is better.
It is all about what unit you have. You have to try both to see if one is better.
There is no true default.
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Linear Phase
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Re:Whoever said the WDM drivers are better than Asio; I think you have turned out to be ri
2012/07/16 23:34:28
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I must admit... I have been getting tons of audio dropouts either way... I wonder what's up with that!! Edit = oh never mind... Maybe its the wasapi drivers that are supposed to be good. the wdm suck. back to asio. gosh, I get so confused with all this music production stuff.
post edited by Linear Phase - 2012/07/17 02:38:38
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Re:Whoever said the WDM drivers are better than Asio; I think you have turned out to be ri
2012/07/17 03:25:32
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Same here, with the saffire 40 and ASIO driver the latency is smaller and the system runs stabile.
With my Delta 1010 the WDM driver works better.
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Re:Whoever said the WDM drivers are better than Asio; I think you have turned out to be ri
2012/07/17 04:49:19
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Yep there's no such thing as better, only what works for you. I've had systems and interfaces where one works really well and the other will barely run.
I'm on ASIO at the moment but my last interface was WDM, if it works well what does it matter.........
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Re:Whoever said the WDM drivers are better than Asio; I think you have turned out to be ri
2012/07/17 04:55:32
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I've had the same great results with both. I actually prefer WDM with my set-up due to being able to use more than one soundcard at once in a project. WDM doesn't seem to work for me at all on Win 7 though...so it's been ASIO for me.
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Re:Whoever said the WDM drivers are better than Asio; I think you have turned out to be ri
2012/07/20 10:19:05
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Isn't WDM specifically for Vista?
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Re:Whoever said the WDM drivers are better than Asio; I think you have turned out to be ri
2012/07/20 11:01:59
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I get better performance with WDM on my system.
As a matter of fact, this is my 2nd PC for recording and I've owned and used 4 different interfaces on XP 32bit and now Windows 7 64bit.
MOTU 8-Pre, Mackie Onyx 1640, Digidesign M-Box and the M-Audio Fast Track Pro.
All seem to have worked better for me using WDM.
For some reason ASIO always needs to be set way too high or I get constant drop-outs.
But that's just me and my experiences.
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Re:Whoever said the WDM drivers are better than Asio; I think you have turned out to be ri
2012/07/20 11:10:09
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daveny5
They may be better for your setup, but in general, they are not better.
CJaysMusic
One is not better than the other. The better one is the one that works best for your system.
What works best for you, may not work best for someone else. There are too many variables!!!
Cj
What they said. Except if you use a soundblaster. 
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Re:Whoever said the WDM drivers are better than Asio; I think you have turned out to be ri
2012/07/20 11:56:19
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Oh the dreaded soundblaster....lol... ASIO has ALWAYS worked solid for me and I have never had to use WDM...+1 though, to everyone else saying go with what works best for you!
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Re:Whoever said the WDM drivers are better than Asio; I think you have turned out to be ri
2012/07/20 19:45:16
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With my ToneWorks DI Silver, I can go either way, I get about the same performance with ASIO or WDM... With my M-Audio interface, it's ASIO or bust, I can't sync up the sound to save my life in WDM. (Frankly, even ASIO it's the weaker DI, but it does better voice recording than the Toneworks, but it can't handle more than about 20 tracks before you start hearing Orville Reddenbacher in your mix).
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