General Information about ASIO Audio and Pandoras Box

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General Information about ASIO Audio and Pandoras Box

Postby Daniel Kaminski » Sat Apr 14, 2012 12:11 pm

With Version 5 ASIO Track were introduced to Pandoras Box.
ASIO Tracks are Layers that enable us to playback Multichannel Audio fully integrated and synchronized with the Timeline.

Depending on your Product between 1 and 32 Audiotracks are available.

ASIO Track can only playback Mono or Stereo PCM Wav files.
MP3, WMA and other Formats are not supported, but still can be played on regular video layers.
All WAV Files have to be in the same sample rate and that sample rate has to be supported and selected in your ASIO Sound Device.
Pandoras Box will not do any samplerate conversions. This means if you play a 44.1k file and your Sound Device is set to 48k your wav file will be played back too fast.

The ASIO Configuration Tab lists all avaiable ASIO Sound Device on the system and lets you choose your system sample rate along with a Master Volume (Default Value is -3.1 dB).

Normally supported sample rates are 44.1k and 48k. Better Sound Device also Support 96k.
More information about sampling rate can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_rate
Higher sample rates mean higher Quality.

48k is generally a great choice.

After selecting a ASIO Sound Device you can get information about all supported channels and their corresponding IDs

Those IDs are used in the Track Inspector in the Audio Channel Input field.

The ID represents the START Channel of the ASIO Track.
A ASIO Track always sends Audio to 2 consecutive Channels.

Example:
Track 1 is routed to Audio Channel 1

Mono Audio Wav on Track 1will be player to Audio Ch 1 and Ch 2.
If you PAN UP, only to Ch 1, PAN Down only to CH 2.

A Stereo Wav will be played as Stereo.

Best Practice:

Make sure your ASIO Sound Device you use in Pandoras Box is not your Windows default Sound Device
Make sure all your Wav files are all at the same level
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Re: General Information about ASIO Audio and Pandoras Box

Postby wijnand » Wed Dec 11, 2013 10:52 am

Great! is it now (or in the near future) possible to add also ASIO effects to your audio? For me when working on lightinstallations, it would be nice if there's is a possebility to EQ or limit your Master audio. Genarally I use one leading audiotrack.
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Re: General Information about ASIO Audio and Pandoras Box

Postby Daniel Kaminski » Sat Dec 14, 2013 10:05 pm

It is on the feature list to be able to add FX, EQ and other stuff to Audio Tracks, but there is nothing planed for the near future.
Question to everybody: How many of you out there would benefit from EQ or FX for ASIO Tracks.

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Re: General Information about ASIO Audio and Pandoras Box

Postby visulize » Sat Dec 14, 2013 10:52 pm

Any additional features like eq etc would be great.

Could I also put on the wish list....
Would it be possible for the asio track to display the waveform of the wav file, if you look at the way that likes of protools or audacity shows the track..

This would allow you to see the start of the track and any peaks etc.. then we would be able to line up a graphic with the audio track..

Coolux is all about the visuals.. lets see the visual readout of the audio so we can line things up...

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Re: General Information about ASIO Audio and Pandoras Box

Postby wijnand » Fri Jan 03, 2014 12:18 pm

Yeah, a waveform preview would help me a lot! For timing on the right spot it now can take a while to find it, it also helps to get an overview of the music as an image. For the FX I installed a hardeware DSP audiocard to solve this (and some other minor connectivity issues)
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Re: General Information about ASIO Audio and Pandoras Box

Postby Markus Zeppenfeld » Tue Jan 14, 2014 9:39 am

Hey guys,

we totally agree. Having the waveform on the track is one of the leading brushes / features within our list what comes next.
Having the audio visible is definitely a great improvement when it comes to music programming.

Stay tuned…

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Re: General Information about ASIO Audio and Pandoras Box

Postby wijnand » Sat May 16, 2015 7:07 pm

Also having a "thumb" preview in the video timeline tracks would be greatly appriciated. Spending now so much time on scrubbing forth and back to find scenes..
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