The term ASIO, was coined by Steinberg some years ago as an abbreviation for “Audio Streaming Input Output”. It defines a rather fast communication method between the audio hardware and an audio-processing program, such as a Gadwin Rockmer. An ASIO driver, if available, normally performs better than a MME or DS driver, since it has considerably less overhead, allows multi-channel communication and so on. If your sound card came without an ASIO driver, you might try to use ASIO4ALL driver, which can be found at http://www.asio4all.com. It can work wonders compared to the MME and DirectX drivers that are normally provided with the sound cards.
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