Problems setting up SystemWide with RME Raydat ASIO

moef_man
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Hey,

I'm having a really hard time setting up system wide on my windows 10 setup. I'm using a RayDAT only ASIO I/O card, and thought that  I could use the “Virtual Windows audio to ASIO” mapping setup, to get everything working, but not :-(

What I get is some audio, that at the playback beginning play back at the right speed, but that after a short time, slows down. So the playback speed slows down, and the sound quality sound corrupted as if it is stuttering. My DT 700 pro X headset is calibrated okay, but the sound is bad.Seems like all functions are working in the SoundId reference software.

I'm pretty sure, that this is a driver issue, I just can't figure out what is wrong. Also, that I choose to go from a 1024 ASIO buffer to 256, that Sound Id reference is crashing, dissapearing from the screen. I can start it again, and sound is back.

I've inserted some pics of my driver setups:

SLL

3 comments

Zane
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Hi moef_man, thanks for reaching out. Sorry to hear you are encountering some trouble with this. 

It does sound like it may be a sample rate mismatch or a similar problem. There are a couple of things you can check on:

  • Is the issue present with all Sample Rate and Buffer Size settings in the SoundID Reference app (available in the output preset settings, under the three-dot menu)? Try different settings to pin down the problematic one.
  • Is the issue present with all audio sources, or certain playback platforms/file formats only (DAW, Youtube, Spotify, internet browser, online, local, gaming, etc.)? Maybe you are switching between sources at some point, or maybe launching a DAW that is using a different sample rate?
  • Is this the first time you are setting up with the RME Raydat in the SoundID Reference app, or has this issue been present for a while now? 
     

Thanks!

moef_man
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Thanks Zane :-)

I'll check it out when I'm home.

Could be  sample rate issue, even though all my sources and  Cubase normally have no problems with the samplerate.

For sure it sound like that playback from mediaplayer starts out at 44.1 khz, and then after a short time (depends on ASIO buffer size),

starts to play at 48khz, as music is slowed down a bit. But I'm not sure why it happens?

To be honest, I did get systemwide to work a year back or so (it wasn't easy), when I upgraded to Sound ID from Reverence 4. But I didn't like the calibration for my DT 700 pro x headset, and disabled all Sound ID calibration. Now a year after that, I wanted to try it out again, and are having the mentioned problems. 

I'll be back…..

Moef

moef_man
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Hey,

I found the problem. When I lowered the ASIO sample buffer to 128 (or lower), the playback sounds fine. 256 samples is too high.

Not sure why everything is that demanding? Is that something you've heard before, that the ASIO buffer on the RME driver needs to be very low?

All the best

Moef

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