hi. i,m in a ditch with my creamware sonic core scope cards. invested too much to leave the scope platform, and it is lowest latency 30 in-outs stable operation even after 20 years. pro quality. if it was good enough for hans zimmer to produce his blockbusters it should be good enough for me.
last year it migrated to a new 670e mainboard and just continues working on a exsys pcie to pci adapter. great. yeah, some limitations on pci bandwidth, but doesnt interfere with my workflow at all.
plays nicely with reaper and vsts.

but the asio driver doesnt like more and more 64bit standalone apps lately.
one suggested workaround is to use an asio wrapper like the free multiclient one from steinberg. it seems to work if it is seen by the app. havent tested enough to really say but e.g. guitar pro 8 demo doesnt see it.
another is bidule, works great as a vst wrapper, but i dont think it is a app or .exe wrapper, or is it?

cannot use onboard sound because it is a usb device and causes hd usb disconnects in my setup, especially with higher ram clocks.

so the idea is a very lean (not necessarily cheap) low latency and stable pci-e x1 soundcard kind of as a hardware asio wrapper. no ins and outs or fancy gui necessary (ok lets say 1 out would do), and no headaches if thats possible at all.
has to be a soundcard though, sonic core always insist "our card is not a soundcard, its an audio card" which seems to be a part of the problem or at least related.

thanks for reading, hope for some suggestions other than move on,

 

RME. Visit website --> click 'PRODUCTS' --> click 'INTERNAL CARDS'.
I've loved PCI cards since the 90s, so I feel ya. I'm using a RAYDAT for low latency and outboard ADDAs.

 

thanks, been thinking rme for a while, but your raydat would be overkill for me. already have all those insandouts and wordclock spdif aesebu and not really using all of it.
and they dont call it a soundcard. why not? does guitar pro 8 work on it?
i will try and contact their support and see if they are willing to confirm their asio will like the scope asio

 

ironically i have had better results with ASIO4ALL then the factory drivers on my last 3 recording cards
even though Cakewalk/Sonar always says it doesnt support it lol

id considering scouting for any other available drivers before a hardware purchase

good luck

 

RME HDSPe AIO (or newer AIO Pro), can be found cheaper on used market as well, rock-solid ASIO driver

 

yeah i was just hoping some hardcore creamware user had tried something similar already.
i take it the rme cards would work in the 2nd graficcard slot?

 

An x1 plugged into an x16 slot? I haven't tried a (x1 in an x4 slot) or (x1 in a x16 slot), but I've read online that it works.

 

this really depends on motherboard PCIe lanes layout,
most consumer motherboards automatically switch two graphics card slots to x8 and x8 mode,
and most consumer motherboards with just one graphics card slot run all the other slots via chipset, usually limiting functionality of onboard M.2 NVME slots when additional PCIe slots are used