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ASIO wakeup
The ASIO wakeup statistics shows how quickly the ASIO driver is responding to
the hardware. Essentially, this measures how long it takes to inform an audio
application that new audio data is available. For low-latency ASIO performance,
this number should be as low as possible.
If the wakeup time is more than a few tenths of a millisecond, then another driver
in your system is hogging the processor and preventing your audio app from
running in a timely manner. Unfortunately, there’s no straightforward way to
isolate which driver is responsible. Try going into Device Manager and disabling
any hardware that you don’t absolutely need.
For example, one test machine had a USB camera hooked up. With the camera
hooked up and running, the maximum ASIO wakeup time was several
milliseconds. Disconnecting the camera brought the ASIO wakeup time back down
to a normal range.
ASIO host
The ASIO host statistics show you how long an audio application is taking to
process each buffer.
Firmware
The firmware statistics display the internal state of the device. The analyzer will
periodically query the device and show the results.
Since the act of querying the device may have a negative impact on audio
performance, you can enable or disable the live update of the firmware statistics by
clicking the “Update” button.
