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11 Devices
A 'driverset' is used to make your audio and MIDI devices available for use by MultitrackStudio. This
driverset can be selected in the Studio->Devices window, currently the AsioSnd and WinSound driversets
are available. On Windows Vista or newer there's also the VistaSound driverset. Clicking the Properties
button will show the driverset's Properties window, which is where you can select the actual devices to be
used.
The Audio Input Control and Audio Output Control (available from the Recording and the Studio menu
respectively) can be used to set the properties (levels, input selection etc.) of the audio devices. The
controls depend on the driverset and devices used.
The MIDI Out Device Options window (available from the Devices window) controls the behavior of the
MIDI Out Ports.
MultitrackStudio Professional supports up to two audio channels, one MIDI In device and up to two MIDI
Out devices.
MultitrackStudio Pro Plus supports up to 96 audio channels (using the AsioSnd driverset), up to four MIDI In
devices and up to four MIDI Out devices.
Choosing a driverset
AsioSnd is the preferred driverset. It can only be used if the sound device comes with an ASIO driver.
Latency can be very low.
Latency can be very low.
VistaSound can be used if there's no ASIO driver for your sound device. As it name implies it works on
Windows Vista or newer only. Latency can be low. The audio devices are used in exclusive mode, which
means that other programs can't use the audio devices while MultitrackStudio is running. This includes the
Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth, if you plan on using this to play MIDI tracks (which isn't recommended
Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth, if you plan on using this to play MIDI tracks (which isn't recommended
since latency is huge) you should use the WinSound driverset instead.
WinSound should work with any sound device. Latency is high.
11.1 AsioSnd
This driverset makes ASIO audio and Windows MIDI devices available for use by MultitrackStudio.
ASIO drivers allow for low latencies and avoid track synchronization issues. In addition AsioSnd allows
multichannel recording (Pro Plus edition only). If a sound device comes with an ASIO driver then it's usually
best to use the AsioSnd driverset.
AsioSnd Properties window (Pro Plus edition. Professional has only one MIDI In and two MIDI Out devices)
In the Audio Device section you can select the audio device that will be used.
On clicking the Control Panel button the driver's control panel will appear. This panel usually lets you set
On clicking the Control Panel button the driver's control panel will appear. This panel usually lets you set
the buffer size. Buffers can be up to 4096 samples (this corresponds to 93 ms at 44.1/88.2 kHz and 85 ms
at 48/96 kHz). A buffer size of 256 (at 44.1 kHz) can be considered a good compromise between reliability