I just read about this and want to ask: Is this relevant for Ardour?
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Port Audio on Windows causes a slow start to Ardour / MB because it scans all audio devices.
There are no other problems with portAudio but ……
Could the ASIO licensing possibly allow portAudio to be removed on the Windows build?
That’s great news.
Let’s see, why Steinberg is doing it. Profit, anti-loss-of-importance or really out of belief?
I am curious, but pleased.
Ardour always does that, not just with PortAudio and probes all available devices for supported sample-rates. This is what takes the most time.
Besides Ardour uses a patched portaudio to request additional information via ASIO and Ardour/Mixbus already used the official ASIO SDK to begin with (thanks to waves).
Not really. We were able to use VST3 in terms of the GPL.
But I very much appreciate Steinberg using the MIT license. IMHO Interfaces should be licensed liberally (MIT, ISC), while Implementations should focus on user freedom (ie GPL)
Is there any way to configure this not to scan all, but just last used or specific devices at specific rate?
Linux on the same machine is almost instantaneous. Windows, it takes 10s of seconds……I should time it someday……
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