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Is there any good reason to install the Presonus drivers rather than just use the plug-n-play WASAPI driver included with Windows 10? I have an Audiobox USB 96 ...
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by cristofe on Sun Aug 16, 2020 12:58 pm
YES. There are many good reasons to install the Presonus ASIO drivers....latency for one.

ASIO vs. MME, WDM, and WASAPI
Most audio software will allow you to choose between the ASIO, MME, WDM, or WASAPI driver. The question then becomes which driver format you should use. There are a few things to consider when choosing the primary playback and recording device. Using a Windows audio driver (MME, WDM, WASAPI) is perfectly fine in cases where you’re gaming, streaming music or movies, or making video calls.

For most pro audio recording applications, however, ASIO is the preferred driver format to use, particularly when using an audio interface. It provides the lowest recording latency and is compatible with virtually all audio software.

That being said we can help you better now and in the future with a bit more info......if you will post your system specs in your signature, (see my sig), we will be better able to troubleshoot your problems. Without knowing what type of pc you're running, what OS you're using, what DAW, make and model of your audio interface etc....we often can't recommend a "simple fix"

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by RoadRanger on Sun Aug 16, 2020 9:59 pm
What are youse guys doing that requires low latency? I'm presently using Audacity on a pretty fast Ryzen 5 laptop and getting just over 60ms in latency with WASAPI. I'm told that Audacity doesn't try for low latency as it can't do real-time effects chains (a guitarist thing?) or VST instruments - and that the latest Win10 WASAPI implementation is as low latency as ASIO anyways?

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