Open source licensing for ASIO at last!

[Starship Krupa]

https://www.proaudio.tech/news/broadcast/new-steinberg-asio-open-source-license-for-obs-partnership

I think this means that when Audacity 4.0 ships, it can legally include ASIO support. That's pretty huge.

[mettelus]

That is rather interesting, as it is focused on OBS. PreSonus actually wrote proprietary OBS ASIO drivers for their hardware (and has recommended OBS but never officially sponsored them), so is nice to see that functionality will be open to everyone now.

This may actually mean that RealTek's ASIO drivers may actually work in the future too!

[Wookiee]

2 hours ago, mettelus said:

This may actually mean that RealTek's ASIO drivers may actually work in the future too!

Aren't Microsoft releasing a Windows native ASIO driver?

[msmcleod]

1 hour ago, Wookiee said:

Aren't Microsoft releasing a Windows native ASIO driver?

Yes, they are... but from what I gather it's several months away.

Also, their priority is releasing a native driver for ARM64 - the reason being, that they want people to adopt the platform, and they realise that hardware manufacturers will need time to develop/test/release their own native drivers.

So I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for Windows ASIO drivers on x64.  Also bear in mind that good manufacturers will tweak their drivers to their specific hardware, whereas Microsoft will be focusing on something that will work reasonably well on all hardware.