MME and WDM?

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Can someone give a 1-paragraphers on MME and WDM? What does it stand for? What's the difference?

Put short - I have WinXP and plan on purchasing the Audiophile 2496 to use with Cakewalk Home Studio 9. What will MME and WDM mean to me?

Thanks in advance!

 

[j]

you will be able to take advantage of WDM if you get the audiophile and Home Studio 2002...WDM offers extreme low latency features ...M-Audio is pretty good about WDM and XP...However, you can do a lot with MME , the older MS technology, which isn't quite the same as it was since XP.

 

[AlChuck]

MME = multimedia extensions, the older architecture of so-called "hooks" for multimedia hardware drivers into the Windows architecture to get the hardware to respond well enough to be useful. By its nature the windowing operating system (actually a sort of interface running on top of an older operating system) has a large amount of overhead that made it difficult to communicate with time-sensitive hardware devices like sound cards and video screens asked to play movies, etc. The MME code was a shortcut through the overhead while still retaining the standard nature of the architecture.

WDM = windows driver model, the new architecture for doing the same thing in the newer Windows OS. They are more modern and allow better performance, enabling things like live monitoring of effects and real-time playing of softsynths while recording.