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Mobile I/O User’s Guide
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communication between MIO Console and the hardware, and transporting
audio between the hardware and clients. The “Mobile IO™ ASIO” file,
which is installed in the “ASIO Drivers” folder of each ASIO host, is a client
of the MobileIO Driver, and provides a gateway between the ASIO host and
the Mobile I/O driver. This allows us to change and enhance the
MobileIO Driver without having to have third parties update their applications
to support new functionality in Mobile I/O – as long as the functionality can be
mapped onto the commands specified by ASIO. With the current version of the
Mobile I/O driver, only one ASIO client can be attached to the driver at any one
time. This may change in the future.
W HERE THE ASIO D RIVER F ILE G OES
Most ASIO hosts use an “ASIO Drivers” folder located in the same folder as
the host application. If your host does not use the standard mechanism for
organizing and locating ASIO drivers, you will have to refer to the documen-
tation that accompanies your host for information about the appropriate
location for the Mobile IO™ ASIO driver file.
ASIO T RANSPORT AND S AMPLE R ATES
The ASIO specification supports a wide variety of audio transport standards,
but most applications only implement a small subset of the possibilities. As a
practical matter, ASIO supports multichannel transport of 24 bit audio at vir-
tually any sample rate. Many hosts only support a small number of sample
rates and may not support all of the sample rates that are available with the
Mobile I/O hardware.
C HANNEL N AMES
ASIO provides a mechanism for the driver to tell the host the names of the
channels. This mechanism is not dynamic, so the Mobile I/O driver cannot
update the host’s names as you adjust the Output Patchbay router. As a
result, the input channel names are always accurate, but the mapping
between the ASIO output names and the hardware outputs can be adjusted
on the fly, and the host may not match the actual hardware routing.
The Output Channel names reported to the host are the default direct
mapped hardware outputs. This is the default configuration when the box