Several manufacturers use rebranded Ploytech drivers. I don't remember all that I've run across
but I recently acquired a MidiPlus AudioLink which used the Ploytech driver rebranded as
a Midi-Plus driver. And you've got it a bit backwards. Yes, the Ploytech driver works with
specific chipsets such as Burr-Brown. Manufacturers that want to make and sell cheap junk
interfaces use these chipsets so that they can then license, use and rebrand the Ploytech driver.
Thus giving unwary consumers the illusion that they are coding their own drivers. It's a cheap
trick to make a fast buck. Personally, I've found the Ploytech driver to be inferior to any and
all other ASIO drivers except, perhaps, ASIO4All and ASIOWASAPI. But, hey, if it works for you
I'm happy for you.

 

Thanks for the explanation.
For inferior you mean higher latency?
And summing up, in your opinion, generic ASIO drivers are all the same?

 

From my experience they perform the same, Steinberg being a little bit better for their automatic rate setting and more device compatibility.
However, ASIO4ALL still is better in term of latency, but it works in exclusive mode only (you can't play any other sound than the audio of your DAW).
If you ever get a dedicated audio card interface then you will be able to use its own ASIO driver that you can then also use in conjunction with Voicemeeter for example, so then you will be able to use an ASIO driver for all your PC programs (that's how I am currently working).

 

i find steinberg built in driver is closest to asio4all in latency also allowing windows app playback like flasio

download jus the driver & test yourself: https://download.steinberg.net/down...uilt_in_ASIO_Driver_1.0.7_Installer_win64.zip

 

I did not say that nor mean to infer it. There are often differences to be found in both generic
and dedicated drivers. A lot of it often comes down to the driver's control panel...if they even
have one. The more aspects that can be tweaked from the driver's cpl....bit rate, buffer size
etc.....the more flexable that driver is and, therefore, more able to adapt to different scenarios.

I prefer not to use generics at all unless absolutely necessary. That beind said, I find that FlexASIO,
(combined with it's GUI app), lives up to its name.

https://github.com/dechamps/FlexASIO/releases

https://github.com/flipswitchingmonkey/FlexASIO_GUI/releases/tag/v0.35

 

Well I used Vmeeter in past but I replaced it with the older Asio Link Pro router, that has lower latency.

 

Latest version here: https://helpcenter.steinberg.de/hc/...erg-built-in-ASIO-Driver-information-download

100% agree, but even better using the more modern FlexASIO Fluent GUI:

 

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Thanks for the info - Fluent GUI = better than FlexGUI

 

I lately found out about FlexAsio in combination with FlexAsioGUI. Best generic asio driver I ever had. (That includes asio4all, that fl asio thing, that one from magic and so on).
You can enter your buffer in ms from 0 to whatever (more than 4096 doesn't make sense)
And give ita custom channel count (I got only stereo there, so not important for me) .