Relayer / WDM / ASIO

[Joey]

Hey Gang,

I finally decided to try my hand at a DAW that can accommodate Relayer.

Since you cannot run multiple programs using ASIO at the same time in Windows - does anyone have any tips and/or settings on how setup the drivers to have Cakewalk record audio from GP via Relayer?

I have the “Relayer to Relayer” send and receive thing. It’s ASIO to WDM that I cannot get to communicate.

Thanks!
Joe

[_wo1f]

@Joey

Since you cannot run multiple programs using ASIO at the same time in Windows

I have found that to be the case with my WIN11 machine which is dedicated to Gig Performer. But, my WIN10 backup machine allows multiple apps to use access audio output simultaneously. Since I never cared about simultaneous use on my primary, I never investigated. Could this be a driver limitation rather than a Windows limitation?

[ztones]

Yes, some manufacturers support multi-client asio.

[David-san]

@Joey

Since you cannot run multiple programs using ASIO at the same time in Windows

As mentioned @ztones, this is not exact. It depends from the ASIO driver. RME has very good multi-client ASIO drivers and some other brands too. However, if your audio interface doesn’t have a multi-client ASIO driver, you can have a look here:

[blog] How to use a single-client ASIO driver with multiple applications on Windows

Link: Gig Performer | How to use a single-client ASIO driver with multiple applications on Windows – Honorable mentions: FlexASIO - I used to experiment with two instances of Gig Performer and it worked, but it was not stable enough for serious use (prone to crashing, initialization errors, text based config (although 3rd party GUI tool exists)). VoiceMeeter - in my tests it had latency issues, but I see that people use it e.g., this YouTube video for Zoom sessions, and another example is Ro…

[Hermon]

@Joey

Since you cannot run multiple programs using ASIO at the same time in Windows

To be precise: It’s not Windows, but the asio driver of the audio interface that may or may not handle several asio applications at the same time. For more details, see the previous links.