problem with mic and asio drivers.

[Alexrencurrel]

I've been having major latency issues while trying to record a multitrack song in Adobe audition. one proposed solution was to download an ASIO driver. Downloaded ASIO4ALL, installed properly, it was identified by premiere and should be all good. The big issue is since i'm using an ASIO driver Audion does not allow me to select Input or Output devices like it does with MME, so I am currently unable to use my headphones or blue yeti mic while recording. The laptops built in mic is still recognized and picks up sound. Is there any way to use these devices while also using asio

[SteveG_AudioMasters_ · Accepted solution]

I'm afraid you simply can't do it like that. ASIO4ALL isn't an ASIO driver at all - it's a software patch that allows ASIO-based software (which Audition is) to talk to a non-ASIO driver (which all of the standard Windows ones are). So when you select a Windows driver in Audition, it's doing pretty much the same thing as ASIO4ALL does - only ASIO4ALL gives more control and better diagnostics, and also allows you to aggregate devices - sometimes.

A proper ASIO driver is one that's supplied by a sound device maker, and this allows you multi-channel access to your device if that's appropriate, and more importantly, it cuts out most of the OS, so the latency is much lower. I don't think there's a single USB mic on the market that has an ASIO driver, so no you can't use them with it. A lot of people seem to think that USB connectivity for single audio devices is wonderful, but in reality it has some significant disadvantages; these can only really be overcome by using a standalone USB device with more than one input and output, and normally-connected mics.

I know that this isn't what you want to hear, but I'm afraid that it's the reality of the situation.

[ryclark]

Depending on which Blue Yeti mic you have you should be able to plug your headphones into the headphone jack provided on the mic. This way you will be able to select it as both input and output which Audition will find preferable and work much better. This is because the digital clock that synchronises the audio sampling comes from only one device. If you try to use different audio devices for input and output Audition can only use one clock (Master Clock setting in preferences) which will mean that Windows has to sample rate convert the other digital audio device leading to signal degradation.