A friend told me about a universal ASIO driver that he’d had luck with. N-track is now working like a champ. May have to experiment with buffers and latency a little, but that’s to be expected.
I uninstalled the Alesis ASIO driver, re-installed n-track, installed the asio4all driver, and bingo.
Bet it’s worth a try for you, too, sinbad, and others with usb or asio issues…
asio4all
This guy must be fairly brilliant, writing a UNIVERSAL driver that works better than those developed specifically for a device by the manufacturer…
This guy is quite brilliant.
I tested this and it really works well.
Where it shines is for users that don’t want to / know how to use a driver for SBLive like KXProject. Also for people with a normal soundcard that wants the low latency of ASIO.
This thing installs and uninstalls like a charm, and is unobstrusive, as it rides on top of the wdm’s ‘hardware layer’ (don’t know what else to call it).
In certain instances I’ve also found that it works better than the origional ASIO drivers. It is not of much use on cards with well written drivers tho’
Glad it sorted you out, and thanks for the report !
Wihan
We use ASIO4All on my sons’ PC with Tracktion 1 (NFR). The soundcard is an old SB Live, and it works really well.
Mark
I wonder if those drivers would work on this P-4 machine that I have this Lexicon Core-32 stuff installed on. The drivers for this stuff only works on the '98SE desk… But I’d like to be able to install this lexicon hardware on the XP Desk…
How would I go about makeing the attempt to install this stuff on the XP Desk? Remember, this machine is a Dual Boot P-4 machine…
The machine is an Intel/ASUS 1.7 mhz machine with two seperate drives for the Desks. I don’t have the Lexicon hardware installed on the XP Desk…
Bill…
Bill if you have WDM drivers for the Lexicon, it might be worth a shot. Like Wihan mentioned, ASIO4ALL is a “wrapper” that basically encapsulates an existing WDM driver and presents it to the system as an ASIO driver. It does work well. I use it on my laptop with the built-in sound chip. The original WDM driver is clunky with n-Track but it seems to work great “wrapped” by ASIO4ALL.
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Hi Guys:
This is the real Back-Breaker, with the CORE-32 lexicon stuff…
The drivers were writtn for '98SE primarlly but while this stuff was in the development stage… Windows 2000 was produced and appeared on the market …
I don’t know exactly how it happened… but there was a RIFF between the Hardware developers and the Software designers… within Lexicon… These are second-hand stories… But It Blew the company apart, and just about brought IT to it’s knees… So, the idea of DAW recording was placed on HOLD… till they decided who was and had to go…
I’ve never had windows 2000 to navigate to, I went directly to XP, but keeping '98SE for the operation of this lexicon stuff…
There was never any WDM Drivers for the CORE-32 hardware…
This is the BIND…
I have to go back to the grind now… I’ll return to finish my story…
Later…
Bill…
Back Again:
What I’d like to see with this hardware is… To find a person with enough programming skills to rewrite or modify the present drivers to include WDM drivers and the like so XP would recognize the hardware… It would allow this beautiful hardware to survive another generation of DAW’s… I’m not looking for any visual graphics and the like… Just some text and all and enough Gizzzzz to cause the analogue and digital Converters to be selected and patched to n-Track… as the Multi-track Editor…
I forgot… the present drivers that are seen by '98SE are… MME and ASIO drivers… Any attempt I made to install the drivers into XP just didn’t accomplish the task… However, XP recognized that there was new hardware to search for drivers… but NO-GO on the driver install…
I’m thinking that with the addition of some kind of “Code” that the present driver package might very easily install into XP… Who Knows?
Bill…
UPDATE:
Still having some awful problems with recording tracks, even with the asio4all driver. No response from N-track tech support. Have tried all the FAQ recommendations. Playback problems, weird skips, pops, etc. Can’t even get a single track finished.
The alesis works great with the bundled cubase software, so I’m gonna have to learn that. Mixing in N- is still a possibility, but I’m pretty frustrated with it at this point.
Ah, well…