if you don't have an audio interface or maybe you do have one and it doesn't have an asio driver but
you want to lower your latency in this video i'm going to show you how asio4all can help i'm
going to go through the installation and then i'll get into the setup and how to change the asio4all
settings in your daw i'm zane welcome to audio tech tv where it's my goal to help you conquer the
tech so you can unleash your creativity and i do this by providing easy to follow audio tech tips
tutorials and reviews now let's jump in all right so obviously the first thing you want to do is
download asio4all so go to asio4all.org and download the language that you prefer
now notice the latest version is only available in english but you should be
alright with these other versions if you need those and also to note when i click on this
nothing happens so what i've had to do is right click and then open link in new tab
and then that brings the download window up and then you can download it
and then once it's downloaded launch the installer and you'll have to accept the terms and you'll see
that there's a couple of options here and the first one is for rewire support if you need that
then check that off and the second one it says that it's useless over in the brackets there so
i'm not going to click that i don't need either of these things so i'm going to leave them both
unchecked and then click next you can choose where you want to install it to i'm fine with
the default location and click install it's now installed so now let's go into your daw alright so
for this i'm just going to use fl studio but the basics are going to be pretty much the same for
every daw you just want to go into your audio settings for whatever daw you use and
you may have to change the driver type to asio if it's not already there or if it's like fl
studio you could just click on device and then under asio you want to click on asio4all
and if your daw has a separate thing for driver type and device you want to click asio for driver
type and then in the device you want asio4all and once you've done that you'll be able to access
the control panel here and your daw might call it just simply control panel or asio control panel it
will be something along those lines so you click on that and this will look the same in every daw
because this is the asio4all control panel now if you're just using your built-in sound card
and you don't have a usb audio interface you're probably not going to have as many selections in
here so don't worry about that what you want to do is find your built-in sound card if it's not
selected already it probably will be if that's all you're using but you want to click on this
button here and make sure it's lit up like this and now we want to click on this wrench right here
and then you can see there's a plus sign beside it we'll click on that and make sure that the output
is for the real tech hd audio output that's my built-in sound card and then the input for
mine is the stereo input that's actually going to record whatever's coming through my computer but
i could change it to the mic in the front or the mic in the rear or the line input whatever i want
i'm actually going to switch it to the mic in the front and you can see we can have multiple things
but i'm going to take this off and just have these two things so it's going to output to my built-in
sound card speakers so if you were on a laptop it would be your laptop speakers or your headphones
and on a desktop it's going to be either your headphones or if you have any speakers connected
to it and then for the input i'm using the mic in the front panel and that's pretty much it for now
so the way i have it set up right here like i said is just for using your built-in sound card
but if you have an audio interface and you want to set this up kind of different you want
the input on your audio interface but you want the output on your built-in sound card so you want to
connect your microphone to your audio interface but you still want to hear the headphones
connected to your laptop or your computer or you want the output to go through your laptop speakers
then we would disable the mic input here and we'll still keep the output on the speakers
but now we'll go to my audio interface which is the audient id44 i'll click on that
and i want to disable the output
i want input 1 and 2 enabled so you can see that's all i have enabled for that is the input and then
for here i have the output so now i could connect a microphone or a guitar to my audio interface
and then the audio is going to output to my computer's speakers whatever they are or the
headphone jack whatever i have connected for that or if you just wanted to use it as the driver for
your audio interface again you would set it up the same way we set up the built-in sound card
now i'm going to turn off the id44 input and i'm just going to set it up with the output here and
the mic at the front and this is a great setup if you're going to be connecting a mixer to your
computer without an audio interface and i have a video on that in case you want to check it out
i'll link to it down in the description but you'll see over here and down here we have some other
options and to start with i would just leave these at the default settings one thing you may want
to change eventually is this buffer size here so you would just close this down open up a project
see how the latency is when you're recording or whatever it is you're doing and if the latency is
too much you want to reduce the size of the buffer and this is going to lower the latency but not all
sound cards and computers are going to be able to handle the lowest buffer settings so you want to
play around with this to see what works best for your computer so if you do end up lowering it and
then you start hearing some clicks and pops and maybe even some audio dropouts then you're going
to want to increase that buffer size again but if you lower it you're not experiencing any issues
then you're good with that lower setting so just play around with it on your computer again try
it at the default settings and see how it works if it works great that way then you're fine just
leave it like that now if you want to check out that video about connecting your mixer to your
computer without an audio interface click up here or click down here to see what youtube recommends
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