RME HDSP 9652 multiple programs, multiple outs

Mike Derrick · 29th June 2007

Alright, so I'm surfing the web while listening to music using iTunes 7 through my studio converter and monitors, and I enter yahoo games. Most games give ya the option to mute the game's sounds however, one of the games I frequent does not.

With my recently upgraded iTunes 7 and my recently updated RME driver, my RME card no longer outputs iTunes and yahoo games to separate stereo outs like it used to, in fact it routes both my music through iTunes and the game sounds into the same stereo out,...rather than how it used to operate before I updated iTunes and RME driver,...it used to give one the priority over the other depending on who started sending signal first,...and the first media to send signal got OUT's 1 + 2 (meaning my studio monitors) and the latter got OUT's 3 + 4 (meaning it wasn't being sent to any speakers,..thus acting like a mute)

So obviously I start my music in iTunes which would get OUT's 1 + 2, my studio monitors, which I wanted to hear and then later I would begin games, which would get OUT's 3 + 4, not routed to anything, so essentially a mute, and something I did not want to hear since the game sounds were annoying and unnecessary for the play of the game.

Just wondering if the ability to route different sound sources at the same time was done by the MME feature of the old 2.94 drivers?
In the readme file with new RME 3.04 driver it says, "The driver does not support MME, and will never do."stike

I actually liked the old way that the RME card did it, giving priority to whichever program launched first, that way I could control which program I wanted to listen to and mute the other. If I wanted to hear both I could simply route OUTS 3 + 4 to 1 + 2 in the HDSP mixer and have both sounding at the same time.
I like control.

Lagerfeldt · 29th June 2007

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Mike Derrick · 30th June 2007

Lagerfeldt,

thanks for the link,however I'm using XP pro.

...and I assume the origin of the functional difference is either with the new iTunes upgrade from 6 to 7 and/or the RME HDSP 9652 driver update from 2.94 to 3.04 ???...since I didn't experience this situation before the upgrade and update (which I did at the same time.)

Mike Derrick · 6th July 2007

Ok, does iTunes 7 have any way of NOT releasing the ASIO in the background??? (I think this is the problem, nothing to do with RME card)

29th June 2007	#1
Mike Derrick Gear addict Joined: Apr 2006 Location: near Vancouver, BC, Canada Posts: 485 Thread Starter	RME HDSP 9652 multiple programs, multiple outs Alright, so I'm surfing the web while listening to music using iTunes 7 through my studio converter and monitors, and I enter yahoo games. Most games give ya the option to mute the game's sounds however, one of the games I frequent does not. With my recently upgraded iTunes 7 and my recently updated RME driver, my RME card no longer outputs iTunes and yahoo games to separate stereo outs like it used to, in fact it routes both my music through iTunes and the game sounds into the same stereo out,...rather than how it used to operate before I updated iTunes and RME driver,...it used to give one the priority over the other depending on who started sending signal first,...and the first media to send signal got OUT's 1 + 2 (meaning my studio monitors) and the latter got OUT's 3 + 4 (meaning it wasn't being sent to any speakers,..thus acting like a mute) So obviously I start my music in iTunes which would get OUT's 1 + 2, my studio monitors, which I wanted to hear and then later I would begin games, which would get OUT's 3 + 4, not routed to anything, so essentially a mute, and something I did not want to hear since the game sounds were annoying and unnecessary for the play of the game. Just wondering if the ability to route different sound sources at the same time was done by the MME feature of the old 2.94 drivers? In the readme file with new RME 3.04 driver it says, "The driver does not support MME, and will never do."stike I actually liked the old way that the RME card did it, giving priority to whichever program launched first, that way I could control which program I wanted to listen to and mute the other. If I wanted to hear both I could simply route OUTS 3 + 4 to 1 + 2 in the HDSP mixer and have both sounding at the same time. I like control. __________________ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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29th June 2007	#2
Lagerfeldt Lives for gear Joined: Sep 2004 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Posts: 4,770	What Do I Know - OS X Software - Detour

30th June 2007	#3
Mike Derrick Gear addict Joined: Apr 2006 Location: near Vancouver, BC, Canada Posts: 485 Thread Starter	Lagerfeldt, thanks for the link,however I'm using XP pro. ...and I assume the origin of the functional difference is either with the new iTunes upgrade from 6 to 7 and/or the RME HDSP 9652 driver update from 2.94 to 3.04 ???...since I didn't experience this situation before the upgrade and update (which I did at the same time.)

6th July 2007	#4
Mike Derrick Gear addict Joined: Apr 2006 Location: near Vancouver, BC, Canada Posts: 485 Thread Starter	Ok, does iTunes 7 have any way of NOT releasing the ASIO in the background??? (I think this is the problem, nothing to do with RME card)