What Are Sound Card Drivers?

Sound card driver refers to the multimedia sound card control program. The English name is "Sound Card Driver". A driver, called "Device Driver" in English, is called a "device driver". It is a special program that enables computers and devices to communicate.

Under Windows XP,

When you install new hardware, you are always asked to put "

(1) Right-click "My Computer" ---- "Properties" --- "Hardware" ---- "

1. Before reinstalling the sound card driver

The mainstream sound card manufacturers are:

A3D | Abit | Acorp

The driving standards that professional sound cards should have are:

ASIO: A sound card that complies with this standard, when using software such as CubaseVST for multi-track recording and real-time audio effects processing, and using a virtual instrument, it will show excellent performance of "zero latency".

GSIF: When running a soft sampler on a sound card that complies with this standard, it will perform well.

In addition, as a sound card product, professional sound cards should also have the most common sound card driver standards as follows:

MME: This standard guarantees that sound card products can be used normally in all versions of Windows 9x.

DirectSound: Sound cards that conform to this standard will be compatible with a variety of DirectX-standard software, such as smoothly running various games and multimedia teaching software.

WDM: This is a Windows driver standard developed by Microsoft. When using a sound card that conforms to the driver standard in Windows platforms after Win98 SE, it can effectively reduce the delay time of the audio stream. Cakewalk SONAR is also optimized for WDM drivers.

In addition to the driving standards mentioned above, there is also a golden strong file called "external energy driving", which is the EWDM driver. The driver is an extension based on the Microsoft WDM standard. It combines WDM, MME, DirectSound, ASIO, and GSIF into one. When users use sound card products that meet the driver standard, they do not need to use other professional sound cards For different applications, it is necessary to switch between various drive standards. ^[4]