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General settings 475
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Driver system
You can choose between MME, multi-channel MME and ASIO. MME
is the standard Windows multimedia driver system. multi-channel
MME (WDM compatible): try to use this driver if your sound card
supports 24/32-bit audio playback and problems occur when playing
back high-resolution audio files.
ASIO
However, if your sound card model uses ASIO drivers, you have
some distinct advantages over MME:
MAGIX LoLa is included, a universal ASIO driver which can be
applied by many sound cards which do not have ASIO drivers.
Lower latency of the driver system. This results in considerably lower
response times for real-time editing. This enables software
monitoring of the inputs (and VST instruments). The CPU load of the
system drops, more high-quality effects are possible without
intermediate bouncing operations.
Driver-side synchronization between recording and playback is
available. This ensures that overdub recordings are 100 % stable
regarding timing. This also allows for mechanisms for compensating
latency for effects permitting software FX monitoring.
ASIO also offers a general method for treating multi-channel audio.
All bit-resolution and multi-channel problems which may appear with
WDM drivers under Win2K/XP are avoided from the outset.
Advanced hardware monitoring options are possible due to the use
of ASIO direct monitoring (flexible routing including pan & volume,
regardless of sound card).
ASIO setup
ASIO drivers: The drivers of each ASIO device currently or previously
available in the system are listed here. "Settings" opens the settings
dialog of the sound card driver. Please refer to the sound card
manual for more information.
Buffer settings
Play/Record buffer: Specifies the buffer sizes for playback or
recording of audio data.