Audition 3.0 and ASIO driver

[Borgnine]

Hi there, I'm a long time Cool Edit Pro 2.0 on XP user who recently upgraded to Audition 3 and Win7. I should also mention that I'm using an OEM Soundblaster Live card that came with a Dell computer I purchased back in 2002. I know you're probably laughing but it works for me, really all I need is a line input.

So when I tried to record in multitrack view Audition said I should use an ASIO driver instead of the standard WDM driver, so I downloaded and installed ASIO4ALL (up until this point I had never even heard of ASIO). The problem is even after fiddling with some settings I still have unacceptable latency.

I'm getting no latency audio in, it's just once I go to arm a track to record it starts up the ASIO driver and I'm in an echo chamber. If I go in to the edit track view and record from there it seems to bypass the ASIO driver and there's no latency.

So does anyone have a solution, or any ideas on how I can fix this? I'm sure the obvious recommendation is going to be to update my sound card, but even if it is, can you help me to understand what's going on here? Even if I get a new card, I'm going to have to use an ASIO driver, and from my experience so far that's just going to add another layer of latency. I don't understand why I can't just plug in a line input and go like I did with Cool Edit.

Anyway thanks for any help you can provide!

 

[TimOBrien]

ASIO4all is a neat little hack to TRY to get onboard soundcards to do asio, but you are still fighting 40cents worth of chips in a gamer card.

If you update to a REAL asio soundcard, it will have properly engineered real asio drivers that will reduce your latency below what you can hear (there is no such thing as completely eliminating it, but getting it below the human threshold - usually 15-25ms - is just as good...) You do NOT want to use asio4all with a real asio soundcard, but it's properly-written drivers.

Here's a good guide and user-tested suggestions that work: http://www.tweakheadz.com/soundcards_for_the_home_studio.htm

(you'll want to bookmark and read through all of Tweak's Guide while you're there...)

Another good article: Choosing an audio interface - http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep08/articles/audiointerfaces.htm