Meteo Xavier Posted May 30, 2013 Share Posted May 30, 2013 This is a problem I've had in recent weeks. I used to be able to have Firefox up and FL Studio with ASIO on at the same time (provided I didn't have sound going), but now it refuses to work as long as Firefox is on at all. Is anyone else having this problem? Using ASIO4ALL V2 btw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPRTNovice Posted May 30, 2013 Share Posted May 30, 2013 That's pretty strange - any time I have a weird problem like that, I reinstall my soundcard drivers and it fixes it 80% of the time. Try that yet? I had issues once where if I opened my DAW and closed it, no other sound would work on the computer until I rebooted. Drivers fixed that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meteo Xavier Posted May 30, 2013 Author Share Posted May 30, 2013 After all the trouble I've had with drivers and shit in the last few months, I really don't want to go messing around there just to see if it does anything. My best guess is Firefox itself added something in a recent update that ASIO doesn't like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zircon Posted May 30, 2013 Share Posted May 30, 2013 ASIO itself is just a protocol, there are many ways to implement it, sort of like MIDI. I use the ASIO drivers provided by my Presonus Firebox with FL Studio and Firefox behaves just fine. It may be that the soundcard & drivers you are using are buggy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meteo Xavier Posted May 30, 2013 Author Share Posted May 30, 2013 But would those bugs suddenly occur after quite a while of working just fine? I didn't change anything in them, it was Firefox that updated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zircon Posted May 30, 2013 Share Posted May 30, 2013 I'm not saying the change in Firefox isn't what created the issue (I've had weirder problems) but I don't think there is an issue with Firefox and ASIO. It may be that whatever they did works fine on 99% of other systems but not yours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ectogemia Posted May 30, 2013 Share Posted May 30, 2013 I'll parrot what has been said about reinstalling drivers. It has worked for me on more than one occassion. Ever since I got my audio interface, though, ASIO issues have been nonexistent, AND I can run ASIO drivers in FL without having external audio issues. Maybe an audio interface would be a lasting solution to external audio problems? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iostream Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 If I had to guess, I would say your ASIO device is the default sound device, and firefox is grabbing it at start up for some reason. Some apps will let you share the ASIO driver for playback, while others require exclusive control. Good ones let you choose whether it is exclusive. I use the onboard sound as the default and run it to a mixer with my audio interface. All audio apps use this, default win crap uses the onboard, and everything is happy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanthos Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 I'm not saying the change in Firefox isn't what created the issue (I've had weirder problems) but I don't think there is an issue with Firefox and ASIO. It may be that whatever they did works fine on 99% of other systems but not yours. Happens all the time when dealing with technology. A legitimate change in one piece of technology exposes an issue with something else. Something may appear to work correctly, but that can either mean that it is actually working correctly or that you just haven't encountered the problem yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theory of N Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 (edited) If I had to guess, I would say your ASIO device is the default sound device, and firefox is grabbing it at start up for some reason. Some apps will let you share the ASIO driver for playback, while others require exclusive control. Good ones let you choose whether it is exclusive.I use the onboard sound as the default and run it to a mixer with my audio interface. All audio apps use this, default win crap uses the onboard, and everything is happy. This is my guess. I use ASIO4All v2 as well and I have the same problem. When FL isn't running, everything works fine. But if something uses the soundcard (something makes a sound) before I open FL, FL will be silent and I'll have to close whatever program made the sound and restart FL. Likewise, while FL is using the soundcard, everything else is mute until I close FL and restart the browser (or whatever else). It's frustrating and I've tried to find a workaround so many times but it seems like it has something to do with the soundcard's capability or something. I don't remember what it was I found out but from what I could tell, it just isn't possible to run ASIO through both at once. EDIT: I seem to remember something about sample rate but I don't think I ever figured it out. Edited May 31, 2013 by Theory of N Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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