Subject:Any Chance of ASIO Support in Sound Forge 7 ?

Posted by: marcj

Date:8/18/2004 7:16:23 AM

Just wondering if ASIO Support will evr be offered in Sound Forge 7.0?

Thx!!!

Subject:RE: Any Chance of ASIO Support in Sound Forge 7 ?

Reply by: Geoff_Wood

Date:8/18/2004 3:35:21 PM

Why ever would you feel the need for ASIO drivers for a 2 channel stereo editor ?

Subject:RE: Any Chance of ASIO Support in Sound Forge 7 ?

Reply by: Greg_M

Date:8/18/2004 3:52:42 PM

Well, for example, Digidesign does not provide record functionality with their wave driver and they do with their ASIO driver. I know there are other answers like Digi could write a wave driver that records or you could use a second sound card. Just answering the "why ever" part of your question.

Thanks,
Greg

Subject:RE: Any Chance of ASIO Support in Sound Forge 7 ?

Reply by: MJhig

Date:8/18/2004 4:15:13 PM

I didn't think there was a need for ASIO support myself until today.

I just got iZotope Ozone and tried to use my old PC (Athlon 550 MHz, 512 RAM) with SF 6 and Delta card. Well Ozone with MME drivers brings this little PC to it's knees with the Ozone meters running.

So I switch to Vegas 4, ASIO drivers and no problem at all moving all over the GUI and switching settings on the fly.

MJ

Subject:RE: Any Chance of ASIO Support in Sound Forge 7 ?

Reply by: kbruff

Date:8/18/2004 6:04:30 PM

To handle pluggins optimzed for ASIO...

WAVELAB -- flies with IZOTOPE , while my SF7, with the same audio file and task, takes noticable more CPU time.

-
Kevin

Subject:RE: Any Chance of ASIO Support in Sound Forge 7 ?

Reply by: jorgensen

Date:8/18/2004 11:53:23 PM

Have to tried to play with the buffer size?

Subject:RE: Any Chance of ASIO Support in Sound Forge 7 ?

Reply by: Sonic

Date:8/19/2004 8:08:27 AM

To answer the original question: ASIO support will not be added to Sound Forge 7.0, but is under consideration for the next major version. As you've all stated in so many words, it isn't so much about providing low latency, but about broadening hardware options.

J.

Subject:RE: Any Chance of ASIO Support in Sound Forge 7 ?

Reply by: Rednroll

Date:8/19/2004 11:47:21 AM

"Why ever would you feel the need for ASIO drivers for a 2 channel stereo editor ?"

Just a few ideas, where ASIO would be nice and hopefully ties in with what Sonic mentioned above. Sound Forge is a Stereo editor, but it is also a mastering application program. To make it a fully functional mastering app, I can see a need for low latency. I have in the past requested that Sound Forge, be able to integrate better with external hardware for mastering needs. I would like to be able to add external hardware into the plugin chainer and be able to hear software plugin processing and hardware processing together. Currently, I have to do a 2 step process where I am unable to hear the entire processing together. If there was ASIO, and some way to insert external hardware into the processing chain, then it would make Sound Forge a more flexible ideal mastering software. I'm imagining the only way to achieve this would be to have low latency drivers like ASIO.

I'm sure the other need for it is that if you're using ASIO drivers for other apps for your sound card, then you can use the same driver for your stereo editor. For example, I have a Sound Device External USB Pre Sound Card. That sound card can only install a Wave driver OR an ASIO driver. I currently have to install the Wave driver because sound forge does not support the ASIO driver. Well this obviously will cause latency issues when I happen to be running Acid and Vegas with that sound card. It isn't very pratical to uninstall and reinstall drivers with the app I happen to be running on an hourly basis. I'm sure other hardware soundcard vendors have similar obsticles, where only an ASIO driver is available.

Subject:RE: Any Chance of ASIO Support in Sound Forge 7 ?

Reply by: orca

Date:10/22/2004 1:27:45 PM

I have a question for this External USB sound device (specifically Edirol UA-25). It can only record 24-bit if WDM or ASIO driver is used. Will this be a problem at all in SF 7.0? Some people complained that they can't select the equipment within the software? Is there any use to use such device if it can only record on 16-bit/44.1 KHz then? Anybody has experience with this?

Subject:RE: Any Chance of ASIO Support in Sound Forge 7 ?

Reply by: Rednroll

Date:10/22/2004 2:14:18 PM

A WDM driver should be selectable under Sound Forge, since this is a Windows Wave type of driver. I can't say with 100% confidence though. Try downloading the Sound Forge Demo and see if the Edirol is recognized under the Sound Forge menu item OPTIONS>PREFERENCE>WAVE as a selectable driver.