Drivers

All our applications work smoothly with any hardware, if the hardware has proper drivers.


Driver technology is quite different for Mac OS X and Windows operating systems:

Microsoft Windows:
Microsoft does not provide technology for low latency audio processing. That's why most of the professional applications use ASIO drivers by Steinberg. Our applications require ASIO drivers, too.

We are not responsible for these drivers. The ASIO driver must be bundled with the audio hardware. If the HW manufacturer doesn't provide ASIO drivers, we don't suggest using this hardware. However, there is an universal ASIO driver named ASIO4ALL, which can be used for any audio interface.

ASIO drivers can be emulated, in which case the driver name is ASIO Multimedia. NEVER use this driver emulation with our software - the latency would be very very long.

Note:

Windows ASIO drivers support only one device and one audio application at a time. You especially cannot play to the internal speakers of a laptop if you have plugged in an external audio interface for input!

Apple Mac OS X:
All the Mac compatible hardware uses CoreAudio drivers, so our applications can work with small latency and good performance.

Note:
Mac OS X CoreAudio drivers support input from one device and output to another device. Any number of applications can use one audio interface simultaneously.

MacOS X Tiger allows to use multiple sound interfaces for input and output:

Combining multiple audio devices to work as one device:


If you have several audio devices, you can use them as a single device. For example, if you have an eight-channel audio device and a two-channel device, you can combine them to work as a single ten-channel device. In this way, you might combine several devices to provide the audio capacity you need without purchasing more expensive multi-channeled audio equipment.


To combine audio devices (guide by Apple):

  1. Open Audio Midi Setup in the Applications/Utilities folder.
  2. Choose Audio > Open Aggregate Device Editor.
  3. In the editor window, click the Add (+) button to create an aggregate device. You can select the device and rename it.
  4. In the Aggregate Device Structure list, click the Use checkbox of each device you want to include in the aggregate device. The list shows the currently connected audio devices and the number of input and output channels for each.
  5. To set the clock of one device as the master clock for all the combined devices, click the Clock radio button beside the device name.
  6. After selecting the devices you want combined, click Done.


You can now choose the aggregate device from the Input or Output menu in the inTone Preferences. Because inTone channel mapping is quite flexible, you can use for instance 4 audio interfaces with a single guitar input to connect four guitars to inTone chains.

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