How do i change the Ezmix 2 output when using ASIO?

[arkhamuk]

Can you tell me how i can choose the Ezmix 2 audio device ASIO output?

If i set Ezmix2 audio device to MME or Direct sound and select what to output to and everything works fine. In my case I input my guitar through a M-Track audio interface to PC (windows 10) then output to headphones that are linked to my sound cards S/PDIF pass through via an Astro mix pro amp in between. This however gives me high 100ms latency, so if I change the Ezmix 2 setting to audio device ASIO and select my M-Track ASIO device i get the much better 10ms latency. However now when I play the guitar I can still see the audio interface light up fine and the levels in Ezmix reacting fine, i just cant hear anything outputting to my headphones? I cant find anyway to manually select an ASIO output in Ezmix, nor ASIOALL or M-Track ASIO? When i also check many windows desktop playback devices and levels i can see nothing outputting from EZmix 2 and all the volumes i can find are high with nothing muted

Please can you help guide me?
Many thanks

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[arkhamuk]

I still haven found a way to select a different ASIO output (if it is indeed possible?) so for now i have to just plug the headphones directly into the M-Track audio interface as a temporary fix 🙁

[John]

Hi,

if I understand you correctly, this would be a hardware specific Control Panel change, since you can select the hardware driver in the EZmix2 Audio Setup. Do you have some kind of Control Panel for the M-Track?
For example, I have an Avid Mbox Pro 3, it has a Control Panel where I can set up which inputs go to the headphone mix output.

BR,
John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[arkhamuk]

Hi John,

Many thanks for your reply. My M-track software only amends buffer size and bit rate. Due to EZMIX’s audio device options for MME and Direct sound offering a drop down to select both input and output, I was expecting to see the same when I selected ASIO.

I’m now thinking that this is not how this works, in that ASIO is and input/output route in one, and thus not able to be output to a different source to the input source. Further, if I was actually able to select another output for ASIO (ie my normal soundcard route) I would loose the low latency anyway due to the increased processing path. So plugging my headphones directly into the M-Track is the correct way to go for low latency, which was the desired result. I believe I have just misinterpreted how I perceived ASIO working.

Many thanks
Ian

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