Switching between ASIO4ALL ON/OFF without having to shut down browser
So we know that if you run ASIO4ALL while you have some other program running a sound output, ASIO4ALL shows audio output as unavailable, since it is locked for it, until you quit all the apps that are using the sound output, be it a browser, media player or windows sounds.
This is all fine, I can switch it off. However, is there no way to make a force block/shut the use of sound output, so that I can free it for ASIO4ALL without having to shut down my whole browsing session? I tend to have many windows opened with many tabs on different desktops. Killing the whole browser means I'll lose this complex hierarchy and it requires me to rebuild it, after I stop using Ableton (ASIO4ALL). Even hangout extension leaves chrome application open after closing of all windows, so I have to kill the browser manually.
This is a very tiresome process and I would like to know if someone solved this somehow already.
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Killing the shockwave/flash without shutting down the browser may do the job. This works for some external sound cards and may work for ASIO4ALL as well.
This is a very annoying problem. A google search has brought about a fix for FL Studio only. The same link (below) also mentions steps you can take to make ASIO your default sound driver by disabling the default in msconfig.
mtippach.proboards.com/thread/2732
Let's hope this works.
I have spent years trying to find a solution for this problem, and I have written an article about this here:
Low latency audio on a Windows PC with the built-in soundcard
To summarize the idea, there are many programs that allow you to do this, and the best options nowadays are probably:
FlexASIO
O-Deus AsioLinkPro 2.4.4.2 (see the article above about the distribution of this softwareà
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