Windows Audio vs. DirectSound vs. ASIO in Standalone? Did something change in the past 3 years?

[mikej]

Well, I installed ASIO using the following three steps:

1. Download ASIO SDK zip from Steinberg and save “common” folder from it in local folder on disk
2. Turn on ASIO in Projucer settings with module settings for juce_audio_devices enabling JUCE_ASIO
3. Click gear above file explorer in Projucer and add to “Header Search Paths” the path to the “common” folder from #1

As per:

Basic ASIO setup producing error: Cannot open include file: 'iasiodrv.h'

Okay, so I managed to figure this issue out. Here’s what ended up working: With the project open in the projucer, go to Modules > juce_audio_devices, and set JUCE_ASIO to “Enabled”. Click the settings icon above the file explorer, and in “Header Search Paths”, add the path to the ASIO common folder from the ASIO SDK download - for me this is “C:\ASIOSDK2.3.2\common” This should then work fine.

This seems to have solved it. Using ASIO delivers good performance again. I presume something changed in how Windows was handling the “Windows Audio” (previously good, now shit) but either way ASIO still delivers.

So all good. Leaving this here for anyone else.