Audio Settings in Windows 7.

[DLPB_]

Anyone out there understand audio and Windows 7?  Then please help.

Basically, this is what I want (and what I should get without all this bollocks):

When I record from my mic, or "what you hear" , or any other source or setting, it should be ADOBE AUDITION that decides the settings, and records at the sample rates I have chosen. 

So why all this "default" setting / "exclusive mode" / "Shared mode"

Can someone explain what settings I should be using to achieve the best quality, and yet not have windows start dictating what sample rates are.  I don't want windows tinkering with any of my audio.  I want Audition to be communicating with the sound card.  Is this possible?  We didn't have these silly settings in XP ,  so what gives?

I am confooosed.

 

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My soundcard supports 24 bit, 192K audio.

[Covarr]

exclusive mode should generally be allowed. It enables the application to take complete control of your soundcard, particularly useful if you're doing ASIO or something.

If you can't get your full 24-bit 192K input from your sound card, the very first thing to double check is that you have the correct drivers installed. Windows comes with generic drivers that work with pretty much everything, but you'll need official drivers from the card's manufacturer if you want to take advantage of all its features/capabilities.

The other thing to try is check if your card has ASIO support. If it does, and if your drivers are set up correctly, make sure Audition is set up to look for your device in ASIO mode. Audition performs optimally with ASIO. If you don't have ASIO support, I recommend installing Asio4All. It steals control of the card away from Windows when an application requests ASIO, treats it as an exclusive ASIO card, and generally makes everything better. It even works beautifully on shitty cheap integrated cards that you'd find built into a motherboard.

[DLPB_]

So let's take this scenario:

I want to record from my microphone at 192k 24 bit (or at the least 24 bit because recording is best here and I can downsample with audition later).

So I set audition to record in this format.

Will it?  or is windows having a say? My card supports this format.

[KnifeTheSky77]

Are you using an audio interface or the integrated card in your computer?
Right click the speaker icon in the system tray-->Recording Devices-->Select your recording device and go into properties-->Advanced Tab-->Under Exclusive mode check "Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device"

I am much more familiar with Pro Tools and Cubase but I am certain that the audio settings you change in your DAW (or whatever audition is) will determine what quality of input you will get from your recording source

[Covarr]

Audition is pretty much a more professional equivalent to Audacity or Goldwave. Not really on the same level as a proper DAW like Pro Tools or Cubase (or my preference, SONAR), but certainly competent at what it does, and probably a better choice for non-music work.

[DLPB_]

Looks like that asio fixed it all.  Selected that as hardware audio in Audition, and now everything works like it should.  Mic is captured at 96000 hz @ 24 bit directly from the soundcard.  Of course, my mic sucks... so it's hardly like it is going to matter so much, but these things need sorting