Configure ASiO Link Pro
The following part is insane. The UI design at first sight was driving me nuts. But once you get used to it, you'll... no. You won't. But it will work as soon as we have done this.
I will first describe what I want to achieve:
I don't want to hear my direct signal! I want to pass the audio from my DAW through ASIO Link Pro over to JamTaba. But I also want a CUE strip in order to play around without disturbing the session.
So this setup will now do exactly that by only using one stereo output and as many analog inputs as I want of my hardware sound card.
Now that you have installed ASIO Link Pro and the patch open the ASIO Link Pro Tool. Please do configuration like seen on the following screenshot. Depending on your hardware you might change the numer of I/O channels but you may also leave them at the default of 64. But please select at least 6 I/Os. You also might want to enable the Start with windows option:
Now click the green icon on Windows system tray
to open a configuration dialog
ARRRGGGHHHH!!!!! WTF!!!???! Ok, calm down... calm down...
You might now download and use my configuration but it might not work on your site because this is somehow bound to the application executable that is running, but give it a try: ASIO-Link-Tool.OAS
If loading the config is not working here's the manual way:
On the upper section all you have to do is to select your sound card and Enable multi-clients:
Now delete all existing connections by clicking on each "X" that you can see on this beautiful UI.
All we want to do is configuring the ASIO related stuff seen here:
And in detail we only need to tweak the "LOOPER IN" and "LOOPER OUT" settings. Good thing is, that when you click on "IN-MIX" and "OUT-MIX" a matrix is shown and you may enter following settings quite easy(?) now:
Now isn't that fun?
Save this setting now. I called it "ASIO Link Tool".
You may now close both windows (no! don't click exit! just close them!), they will be hidden and are still accessible in Windows system tray.
That was part one of three!