ASIO4All 2/sound driver w/ REAPER Problems

[openocean]

Trying to set up REAPER for some simple guitar/piano recording. Monitors had high latency with default audio driver (WaveOut), despite tweaking. Internets told me I should be using ASIO4ALL2, but that killed all sound for all programs, and the most I could get was a high pitch fuzz when turning Windows sound up (that sure woke me up...). So then tried "WASAPI (Windows 7/Vista Experimental)" and I got low latency but highly clipped/distorted sound. Tweaking "block size" (think this is same as buffer) didn't make the distortion go away (and now I'm unable to even get sound out of that driver).

I can't tell if I've done something wrong, if I'm missing something (maybe in ASIO configuration?), or if my hardware simply isn't up to snuff (Win8 64bit, Intel i3 2.5 Ghz, 4gb RAM, laptop. It was WAY cheap).

I'm new to this so any help is MUCH appreciated. I'm excited to actually get a sound out of my computer. If this should be posted elsewhere, please point me in the right direction. Thank you all!

 

[JimmyS1969]

You are going to hear this a bunch soon: 'Get an audio interface'.

Sorry, but you just have to buy something that has ASIO driver to record without these issues. You might get a straggling offender of my opinion, but he will be an idiot...

 

[ecc83]

You are going to hear this a bunch soon: 'Get an audio interface'.

Sorry, but you just have to buy something that has ASIO driver to record without these issues. You might get a straggling offender of my opinion, but he will be an idiot...

+1. The computer should be fine for much heavier duty than two* tracks of piano. If you want to get fancy in the future you could double the amount of ram to 8G. Being Win 8 I can't help much but look to cutting down the amount of "clever stuff". Aero glass, 3D, animation. Set the screen and hard drive to "always on". If you can, turn off any CPU power saving modes. Turn off wireless modems, internal soundcard and Windows Sounds.

*DO NOT GO CHEAP! And buy a single mic input AI! The cheapest, good performing AI I know about is the Steinberg UR22 at ~£100. If you are really strapped, look to second hand. Models include. M-Audio fast track pro, Tascam US 144. I picked up a really nice Focusrite 8i6 for a ton. But get an agreement for a refund if these AIs do no not work on Win8/64.

All for now. Good luck!

Dave.

 

[openocean]

OK. I just happen to have a Behringer USB audio interface lying around. Probably just my lack of familiarity with the program/audio engineering, but I'm still unable to get any sound playing through the audio interface (beside some faint hum through the AU monitor). Though it tells me the latency is down to 20ms at the top right.

Is there any obvious step I'm overlooking, or a resource that explains how to set this up simply? Hmmmm maybe I need a pre-amp?

Also -- I thought it strange that using ASIO killed all audio for all programs. Is ASIO a driver that is used only for things like an audio interface?

 

[mjbphotos]

It would help if you told what Behringer interface you are using. Did you download the correct drivers from the Behr site? Did you select the Behr as your audio input and output device in Reaper?

 

[Tadpui]

ASIO4ALL should still work with your stock internal sound card. As mentioned above, it's not ideal, but it should at least allow sound to be recorded and played back. And your other computer specs are more than adequate for some simple recording and playback via Reaper.

In Reaper, under options, find the Audio Device settings and make sure that you have ASIO4ALL selected there. Or if you're using your Behri interface, select its drivers instead.

In Windows control panel, under Sound, make sure that you have the appropriate device selected for both recording and playback, and make it your default device (assuming that you want to use that device for listening to music/desktop sounds, as well as recording).

In Reaper, do you see any activity on the track monitor when you play/sing through an input that's armed? If you have the proper audio driver selected in Reaper's options, do you hear any sound when playing back a recorded track from within Reaper?

 

[openocean]

It is a Behringer UCA222. Installed drivers from Behringer website, selected the interface in preferences>Audio>devices>Audio System>ASIO>ASIO Driver --> Behringer USB Audio.

I don't know why choosing ASIO killed the sound before, but that issue seems to have disappeared. The AI is selected in the sound control panel.

The only activity in the track monitor is electrical hum from touching guitar strings while plugged in, but no actual sound (even checked that the guitar itself doesn't have a wiring issue...)

Here's a screen shot. Right side shows picking driver/device. Top left shows "ASIO configuration"from bottom right window. Bottom left just shows selecting device under the sound control panel.




Any more ideas are much appreciated! I refuse to give up on this...

 

[ecc83]

The Windows pane (sic) shows the UCA 222 as a WDM device whereas the rest of Cubase lists it as ASIO.....Dunno but I have a UCA 202 and Cubases.

"Oil be beck!"

Dave.

 

[ecc83]

Oim bek!

Freakijn' nightmare! You can only use the Behringer in Cubase via ASIO4all AFAICT. Even then I could not get the right channel working and at one point Cubase showed a signal but did not write it.

Samplitude SE8 was fine (as always!) and I was able to setup the device quite easily as either a two channel mono or stereo device. Mind you, you have to dig deep into the Windows sound menus to set the 202 to " Two channel 16bit 44.1kHz" otherwise you get all sorts of weird double mono results.

Audacity was on the way to working when the whole thing went feedback ape***t.

Bottom line: It is probably possible to get the Bellringer working on any given DAW but IMHO it ain't worth the hassle. If you have an "unfussy" DAW like Samplitude ok, otherwise............Get A Better Interface!

Oooops! Didn't try Reaper! I don't expect much change, again you should be able to get it working but it is always going to be a kludge.
Dave.