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Hi, old buzz user here... I'm not sure why I didn't find anyone else asking about this in my forum search, but with the latest builds from jeskola.net, I no longer have and ASIO option. Is it not supported anymore? I tried installing Polac ASIO, but I just don't have an ASIO option in the dropdown. Thanks for your help, and good to see Buzz hasn't been forgotten!

Certainly, buzz supports ASIO in latest version 1502.

Easiest way:
Download Polacs files and install (drop into buzz root folder)
http://www.xlutop.com/buzz/zip/beta/pvst_v1.1.10b30.zip

Download asio-driver ASIO4ALL – if you don't use any other asio driven equipment – and install on your system
http://www.asio4all.com/

Start buzz and it should work

OK thanks, I guess I'll try a fresh installation, since it's not showing me any ASIO option at all.

Hmmm... So what's the real difference of ASIO and WASAPI?

I've had a bit of a break from these things and had not heard about WASAPI before. I'm trying to get back to making music... Well maybe. (And actually more like back to composing... I've been playing bass and guitar... But well that's off topic.)

It used to be that ASIO was the low latency option with least amount of Windows stuff messing around with the sound. I googled a bit and it seems that WASAPI is at least low latency too, but is there some other limitations with WASAPI or ASIO?

I have M-Audio Delta 44 if it matters...

If you want to use multi-io and/or the midiout features of polac vst use the polac asio driver otherwise you also could go for wasapi.

Wasapi is fairly low latency, but with asio and some other options, you can set your latency yourself and decide if you want lower latency and higher cpu usage or if your willing to accept higher latency to free up some cpu headroom. Any latency below 10ms is going to be totally fine for most people.

In my experience using wasapi, which was my main choice before I moved to wdm kernel streaming and now asio, is that wasapi has some weird audio artifacting happening. I'm not sure what it is, and some have argued with me that it shouldn't be there, but when I was running wasapi and putting my signal into a high powered speaker, there was a digital fuzz all over everything. So it didn't sound clean. I couldn't hear it at all in headphones, but it was there when I ran through my amp, and switching to kernel streaming fixed it.

Asio is a professional standard that is used across the industry. No serious person uses wasapi, but it can be a fine choice depending upon your needs.

As to why it isn't working in your case, just make sure you're installing everything correctly and that you're putting the polac asio files in the proper directory, which is jeskola\buzz.