FM3 as input and external interface as output

[Henrique_Hunter]

hello people from fractal world, I just got my first fractal device, a FM3!! Well lets go straight to the point...
I have an audient evo4 interface where its ouputs are heading to my monitors. I want to know how can I setup my FM3 usb as input and my interface as output for recoring in repaer ! I tried ASIO4ALL but it got too much latenc., is there a way to do this only using FM3 asio drivers ?

 

[vangrieg]

is there a way to do this only using FM3 asio drivers ?

FM3 drivers won’t do anything with your other interface.

You need software that will bridge them together. Voicemeeter, or there was another one mentioned here, I can’t recall the name, unfortunately, or where it was.

(I presume you’re on Windows since you mention ASIO4ALL)

But maybe you just need to tweak ASIO4ALL buffer?

 

[vangrieg]

Found the software I was talking about

 

[Necr0lancer]

Found the software I was talking about

Oh dang I might have to check this out!

So I use an MOTU M4 with the FM3s output 1 going into the M4s unbalanced inputs. I use the mix knob in the M4 to balance between my FM3 and Windows audio. If I use this program, would everything coming out of one stereo channel? Like would I have to balance the FM3 and Windows audio through windows itself?

 

[vangrieg]

If I use this program, would everything coming out of one stereo channel?

I don’t use it, I’m currently on a Mac, it was brought up in another topic and I just remembered about it. But I think yes, it should work this way.

 

[Necr0lancer]

Found the software I was talking about

Just tried this program. It does work. I was able to skip connecting cables from the FM3 to my audio interface which is really cool. Unfortunately there's still some very noticeable latency but it wasn't as bad as I thought! Very cool technology though!

 

[vangrieg]

very noticeable latency

Is there latency when you combine ASIO with Windows Audio? Or ASIO with ASIO as well?

 

[Necr0lancer]

I didn't use ASIO at all! I digitally routed the FM3 output 1 into my interface's stereo input. I got the buffer size as low as possible (I have a beefy PC so I was able to get it to 92 sample rate) but still latency. Like 30ms

I didn't bother with ASIO because I always have horrible latency with it even with the lowest sample rate possible.

 

[vangrieg]

I didn't use ASIO at all! I digitally routed the FM3 output 1 into my interface's stereo input. I got the buffer size as low as possible (I have a beefy PC so I was able to get it to 92 sample rate) but still latency. Like 30ms

I didn't bother with ASIO because I always have horrible latency with it even with the lowest sample rate possible.

Well the standard windows drivers aren’t realtime, you can’t get low latency with them.

ASIO drivers are what’s used for low latency. They need to be provided by the interface manufacturer. For cases when there are no OEM drivers there’s ASIO4ALL, but it can be a hit or miss story.

There’s another audio interface on windows (WinRT? Don’t remember). That one is provides class drivers and works with low latency but isn’t widely supported by audio programs. I only saw it working in Maschine.