Blue Cat’s Connector and their Windows ASIO driverīlue Cat’s Connector is an inexpensive audio and MIDI streaming plugin that can be used to transmit audio and MIDI signals in real time between several computers or applications, or to create your own routings within a single application with minimal latency. If you need to use an audio interface with a single-client ASIO driver, read on to learn how you can still use that audio interface with multiple applications. Note that this is not a Windows limitation but the developers’ decision and it may happen that a driver update brings support for multiple applications running simultaneously. Check the drivers page or contact the manufacturer to learn which interfaces support multiple applications running simultaneously. If you plan to buy a new audio interface, we suggest that you choose an audio interface with multi-client ASIO drivers. Since Gig Performer with two instances counts as two applications, your second Gig Performer instance will be unable to use the audio interface ( click here to learn what are the benefits of using multiple instances in Gig Performer).

Unfortunately, there are still audio interfaces that come with single-client ASIO drivers. Similarly, a Windows ASIO driver that allows multiple applications to use the same audio interface simultaneously is called a multi-client ASIO driver. What is a single-client ASIO driver?Ī Windows ASIO driver that allows only one application at a time to use an audio interface is called a single-client ASIO driver. In this article you will learn how to use an audio interface with a single-client ASIO driver to run multiple applications at the same time on the Windows operating system.

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