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Re: Kmixer, iTunes, Foobar, ASIO, and Scott Nixon USB DAC

Posted by edward on July 17, 2006 at 19:25:26

In Reply to: Re: Kmixer, iTunes, Foobar, ASIO, and Scott Nixon USB DAC posted by mourip on July 17, 2006 at 18:41:01:

---"How did you get iTunes to use ASIO?"---

As long as you have the M-Audio ASIO driver installed, then you can use "DirectSound" with iTunes (which is actually set in the QuickTime control panel). In fact, this will work with Windows Media Player as well. As long as the volume settings are set to max, you will still achieve bit-perfect playback with DirectSound.

The only reason to use ASIO4ALL is when the sound card does not have a native ASIO driver. And in this case, your music player (such as foobar) must support ASIO output. But as you quoted in your original post from the guy using an RME sound card - he is using the native ASIO drivers from RME. Therefore he is true in saying he can play from iTunes (using DirectSound) and the KMixer is not active.

So the question is - does your Scott Nixon DAC come with an ASIO driver? In foobar, after you've selected ASIO as the output mode, then click on settings and see if the SN DAC shows up in "Devices". If not, then you'll have to use ASIO4ALL. If it is there, then it has an ASIO driver and then you can use iTunes if you prefer.

-EDWARD

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