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127th AES Convention Coverage (New York, NY Oct. 9-12)
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Aardvark Improves ASIO Support
June 14, 2001
Advertisement Aardvark introduced a new driver version 5.14 for their Direct Pro Series line of high-end computer audio interfaces. This new driver has low-latency performance with any ASIO application, including Steinberg Cubase VST and Nuendo, Emagic Logic Audio, Bitheadz, Native Instruments and Propellerhead Reason. Driver version 5.14 is based on a new, super-efficient ASIO architecture and offers some unique features to provide low latency performance with any ASIO application. This driver can be used with any of Aardvark’s Direct Pro Series audio interfaces, including the Direct Pro 24/96 ($699), LX6 ($499), Aark 24 ($599) and the soon to be released Q10 ($999). “Our new ASIO structure makes The Direct Pro Series one of the lowest-latency performers available on the Windows platform. The ASIO Buffer Slider and the Turbo Mode are unique in their approach to dramatically reducing the latency for almost all of Steinberg, Emagic, Cakewalk, Native Instruments and Propellerhead programs. Combine that with the zero-latency DSP effects we already offer and that makes the Direct Pro Series pretty tough to beat.” states Erik Lovell, the VP of Sales & Marketing for Aardvark. Aardvark’s existing Cubase VST and Logic Audio users will notice a significant reduction in the latency when recording live and monitoring multi-track sessions. Native Instruments and other software synth & sampler users will notice a dramatic latency reduction and real-time feel when using it with any of the Direct Pro Series interfaces. One of the new features in v 5.14 is the clever ASIO Buffer Size Adjustment slider which is accessed from the control panel’s Advanced button. This allows the user to dial up to 31 different ASIO buffer sizes in 64 sample increments to get exactly the setting on the computer that achieves the lowest latency possible with their applications. Another unique feature in this driver is the new ‘Turbo Mode’, which further reduces the latency performance for most ASIO based programs and ASIO software synths & samplers by optimizing the data efficiency between the software and hardware. This feature can allow up to 9 ms lower latency than the standard driver without changing the audio buffer size. Native Instruments, Propellerhead and other ASIO based synth and sampler customers can get latencies down to 3 or 4 milliseconds, which gives them the real-time performance they need for professional applications. Version 5.14 also includes the true Multi-Client/Multi-Driver architecture which allows Aardvark’s Direct Pro Series to be used by multiple applications at the same time. This allows up to 3 separate applications to each use different audio inputs and outputs as if no other application we also using the card. Aardvark customers find this convenient when using Nemesys GigaStudio or Native Instruments while simultaneously monitoring live multi-track audio in Cubase VST or Cakewalk’s Sonar. Recent Aardvark Guitars headlines
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