Skip to main content
Participating Frequently
September 25, 2018
Answered

How to realize multitrack signal playback in different sound cards separately

  • September 25, 2018
  • 3 replies
  • 1657 views

Hi,

In daily use of Audition, we need to play different signals in a multitrack section file through different sound cards.  mine is Audition CC 2018

pls contact me *personal contact details removed - Mod*, thanks in advance.

    This topic has been closed for replies.
    Correct answer SteveG_AudioMasters_

    For PCs:

    It's not possible to do this with an ASIO driver - the system was designed by Steinberg so that it would only address one device - nothing to do with Audition at all, that's their limitation and any software using it is forced to abide by it. The reason is that it punches a hole clean through most of the OS, and consequently performs rather better. It works well with Audition, as Audition has an ASIO-based engine.

    Because of the way most other device drivers work, I think that there's only going to be one way to do this, and that's to use ASIO4ALL, which will allow you to aggregate more than one device, but the whole setup will have higher latency. For playback only, that's unlikely to be a problem. ASIO4ALL is free, and relatively easy to set up. It also has good diagnostics, so you can tell what's happening and whether you have any problems you need to address.

    For Macs

    My understanding is that Macs aggregate audio devices anyway, so it's a matter of getting them connected up and the system configured correctly, I guess - I don't have one so I can't tell you absolutely what you have to do.

    3 replies

    Participating Frequently
    September 27, 2018

    I successfully installed the ASIO4ALL in the compatible mode. but when I start the audition, it is the same. only one sound card can be set to play. I still can not play different track in different card.

    I have an old version of audition, maybe 1.0, it can support different sound card playback.

    Participating Frequently
    September 27, 2018

    Hi SteveG,

    thanks for your reply, so according to you, the problem lies in the the ASIO driver.

    I have downloaded the ASIO4ALL driver, but I also encountered a problem when I install this driver, it displays an error like below. my laptop is Win10.

    SteveG_AudioMasters_
    Community Expert
    SteveG_AudioMasters_Community ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    September 25, 2018

    For PCs:

    It's not possible to do this with an ASIO driver - the system was designed by Steinberg so that it would only address one device - nothing to do with Audition at all, that's their limitation and any software using it is forced to abide by it. The reason is that it punches a hole clean through most of the OS, and consequently performs rather better. It works well with Audition, as Audition has an ASIO-based engine.

    Because of the way most other device drivers work, I think that there's only going to be one way to do this, and that's to use ASIO4ALL, which will allow you to aggregate more than one device, but the whole setup will have higher latency. For playback only, that's unlikely to be a problem. ASIO4ALL is free, and relatively easy to set up. It also has good diagnostics, so you can tell what's happening and whether you have any problems you need to address.

    For Macs

    My understanding is that Macs aggregate audio devices anyway, so it's a matter of getting them connected up and the system configured correctly, I guess - I don't have one so I can't tell you absolutely what you have to do.

    Participating Frequently
    September 27, 2018

    Hi SteveG

    I have installed ASIO4ALL in a compatible mode, however, I can not find ASIO4ALL when setting the driver. there is only one called ASIO Fireface USB, which is an external soundcard driver.

    I also can not find ASIO related driver in device manager.

    SteveG_AudioMasters_
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    September 27, 2018

    Hi SteveG,

    1. what is the version of your ASIO4ALL? can you share me the download link?

    2. after installing the ASIO4ALL driver, we can find the driver in audition even though we have not open its control panel and enable some functions?


    2.14 - top of this page: ASIO4ALL - Universal ASIO Driver For WDM Audio