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    The document introduces ASIO2WASAPI, a universal ASIO driver for Windows that provides ASIO support for audio devices that do not have native ASIO drivers. It allows audio applications to stream audio directly to hardware without going through the Windows audio stack. The driver installs and configures like a typical ASIO driver, presenting a virtual ASIO-compatible interface above the WASAPI API supported by all Windows audio devices. It multiplexes ASIO streams without modifying the audio and avoids Windows audio processing. The source code and binaries are available online under GPL, and the driver is built using the ASIO SDK and Microsoft Visual Studio.

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    The document introduces ASIO2WASAPI, a universal ASIO driver for Windows that provides ASIO support for audio devices that do not have native ASIO drivers. It allows audio applications to stream audio directly to hardware without going through the Windows audio stack. The driver installs and configures like a typical ASIO driver, presenting a virtual ASIO-compatible interface above the WASAPI API supported by all Windows audio devices. It multiplexes ASIO streams without modifying the audio and avoids Windows audio processing. The source code and binaries are available online under GPL, and the driver is built using the ASIO SDK and Microsoft Visual Studio.

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    The document introduces ASIO2WASAPI, a universal ASIO driver for Windows that provides ASIO support for audio devices that do not have native ASIO drivers. It allows audio applications to stream audio directly to hardware without going through the Windows audio stack. The driver installs and configures like a typical ASIO driver, presenting a virtual ASIO-compatible interface above the WASAPI API supported by all Windows audio devices. It multiplexes ASIO streams without modifying the audio and avoids Windows audio processing. The source code and binaries are available online under GPL, and the driver is built using the ASIO SDK and Microsoft Visual Studio.

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    ASIO2WASAPI Universal ASIO Driver

    Introduction

    ASIO is a software API and driver model developed by Steinberg Media Technologies to
    bypass the operating system’s audio stack and let applications transfer audio data directly to/from
    memory mapped hardware buffers. It is used primarily by digital audio workstation applications that
    take advantage of its low recording and playback latencies.
    Many media player programs can be configured to stream audio into an ASIO driver. This helps
    to ensure that the audio stream reaches sound hardware without any modifications by intermediary
    software components. Unfortunately, manufacturers of many common audio devices do not provide
    ASIO drivers. For example, many USB DACs rely on Windows/MacOS native USB audio drivers
    and do not come with any hardware-specific drivers.
    The universal ASIO driver ASIO2WASAPI addresses this problem for Windows Vista or later
    by providing an ASIO-compliant layer above the low-level audio API WASAPI, supported by every
    Windows audio device. It multiplexes a multichannel ASIO stream into a single WASAPI stream,
    without changing the very audio samples. ASIO2WASAPI uses so called WASAPI exclusive mode,
    specifically its event-driven, or “pull” variant. The audio stream does not pass through a Windows
    mixer or any of the Windows’s audio processing objects (APOs) that are often not bit-transparent.

    Installation

    The universal ASIO driver is hosted on SourceForge at http://asio2wasapi.sourceforge.com/ .


    Its source code and 32/64-bit binaries are available under the GPL license. To install the driver,
    unzip its distribution, go to the Release subfolder and double-click the Install icon. A message will
    appear that ASIO2WASAPI is successfully installed.

    Configuration

    As it is the case with every ASIO driver, ASIO2WASAPI is configured through its ASIO
    control panel dialog. Every ASIO client provides its own UI to launch it. For ASIO2WASAPI,
    the dialog looks as follows:
    The playback device is a Windows audio playback device used by the driver. It is opened in a
    WASAPI exclusive mode and is inaccessible to any Windows application except for the ASIO client.
    The specified number of output channels is visible as such to the ASIO client. ASIO2WASAPI is an
    output-only driver and has no input channels. The default sample rate is used as the ASIO hardware
    samples rate until the client changes it through ASIOSetSampleRate API call.

    Addendum. Build Instructions.

    The driver is developed in C++ with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. To build it, it is
    necessary to download the ASIO SDK from Steinberg’s web site, see
    http://www.steinberg.net/en/company/3rd_party_developer/sdk_download_portal.html

    The SDK is available under its own license and cannot be posted online on an unrestrictedly
    accessible web site.

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