Using ARTA while streaming music on the same PC?

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Hi

Im assuming this is a common problem, but I dont think I have ever seen it described here.

I have a single Win10 PC on the workbench. I use it for background music (often streamed from radio or YT) and for measuring with ARTA.

On rare occasions it actually work doing both at the same time: using 2 soundcards I can listen to music on the speakers AND measure at the same time.
But often something goes wrong and ARTA will display some error-message when I try to start a measurment.

The problem was the same on Win7 and with a number of different soundcards.

Do you have any experience with this ?

Kind regards TroelsM
 
Hi Hugo.

No, sorry, I dont know what ASIO means. - but as it works sometimes I´m assuming its not because one application ALWAYS blocks the other?

My current setup is using Digidesign Mbox 2 for streaming music and I think that one is using a special driver/interface/something ( not at that setup right now)

Just to be clear: ARTA is working fine with different soundcards when is I use that alone.

Kind regards TroelsM
 
Hi Troels,
From wikipedia:
"ASIO bypasses the normal audio path from a user application through layers of intermediary Windows operating system software so that an application connects directly to the sound card hardware."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Stream_Input/Output

It also means that it is exclusive and no other sound application can work simultaneously.
So that could explain why it is working with different soundcards when used alone.

But when you say that it works sometimes, there is likely another issue.
I should install ARTA to try and find out but perhaps regular ARTA users know about the problem... and a solution.

Hugo
 
Hi.

I´m pretty sure that the default-interface for the Mbox IS actually ASIO ( ARTA list the driver as ASIO, when I chose Mbox as ARTA-interface).

So that would explain the problem, but it leaves me doubting my memory, because it should never work?

Anywhos, the solution appears to be: 1) Find a non-ASIO way to run Mbox or 2) use a different soundcard.

Kind regards TroelsM