Re: [Audacity-devel] Port Audio support

[Dominic M. <do...@mi...>]

Patrick,

The development version of Audacity does indeed use PortAudio.  We're
working on improving the latency, but it does work, so we could
support ASIO devices now!

The only thing we're waiting on is for PortAudio to finish writing
an interface which supports multiple drivers simultaneously: for
example, it should attempt to load WinMME, DirectSound, and ASIO
on Windows, and let the user select between the three.  This is
tricky because we don't want the whole program to fail, for example,
if the DirectSound DLL's aren't installed.

In the meantime, you can compile Audacity with any one of the three.
Our next release will probably just use WinMME, since everyone can
use that, but we'll try to support all three drivers soon.  Are you
interested in playing with an ASIO version at some point?

- Dominic


Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> Hmm.
> 
> Looking into Port Audio some more and it appears that ASIO is supported. 
> 
> Does that mean that the windows and mac versions of Audacity would be able to access ASIO devices?
> 
> If so that is great.
> 
> I am currently trying to figure out how to get a Maudio Quattro USB card to record and it seems my only option at the moment is to use a windohs program that has ASIO support. If I could use Audacity that would solve my problem. Ie getting a program that can do that :)
> 
> So my question is where are you at with Port Audio support these days?
> 
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