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Audio Options dialog—Driver Profiles
Dialog Reference
Use Friendly Names to Represent Audio Drivers
If you enable this check box, the Input and Output menus in audio tracks and buses will use
whatever friendly names you’ve created for your Input and Output drivers. Friendly driver names
are global, not per-project.
For more information, see:
Improving Audio Performance
Audio Options dialog—Driver Profiles
The Options > Audio command opens the Audio Options dialog box. Choose the Driver Profiles
tab to view the sound card buffer settings that the Wave Profiler has come up with. The various fields
show the following data: This tab only appears when in MME or WDM/KS driver mode.
Show Profile for
This field shows the name of the sound card driver that the displayed settings are for.
Stream > 16 bit data as
Sound cards that handle audio formats greater than 16 bits have a preferred format for the data, the
variations of which you can see by clicking the drop-down arrow in this field. Consult your sound
card’s documentation to choose the optimum setting.
DMA Buffer Sizes
These fields list the buffer characteristics for each sound card that the Wave Device profiler has
come up with. In general, it is better not to change these settings without consulting SONAR
technical support.
For more information, see:
Improving Audio Performance
AudioSnap Options
This dialog appears when you click the Options button in the AudioSnap Palette.
This dialog has the following fields:
Quantize
• Pool Transient Window (ms). When you double-click a marker, not only does the marker
become selected, but all markers to the right of the marker become selected if they are located
less than this field’s value away from the original marker.