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## ASIO plugin for OBS-Studio ##

**Authors** : Andersama (lead) <anderson.john.alexander(a)gmail.com> and pkv <pkv.stream(a)gmail.com>

## What is ASIO ? ##
Audio Stream Input/Output (ASIO) is a computer sound card driver protocol for digital audio specified by Steinberg, providing a low-latency and high fidelity interface between a software application and a computer's sound card. Whereas Microsoft's DirectSound is commonly used as an intermediary signal path for non-professional users, ASIO allows musicians and sound engineers to access external hardware directly. (From [ASIO Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Stream_Input/Output) ).

## This plugin ##
* We developed a plugin for [OBS Studio](https://obsproject.com/) which is a leading open-source streaming and compositing software.
* It allows capture of ASIO sound devices, which are often professional or semi-professional grade hardware for studio or home-studio use. * The plugin is designed for Windows and has been tested on windows 10 x64.    
* There are several versions, we'll only be releasing the most stable so far. All code will still be available on their corresponding branches.   
  * The JUCE and Bassasio plugin have the most functionalities; they allow multi-device as well as multi-client operation.    
  * The 2 Portaudio plugins have multi-client but not multi-device capability.
  * The portaudio plugin v2 differs from portaudio plugin v1 in allowing sources with different devices although only one device is active.    
  * The RtAudio based plugin is the most basic one and is not released.     
* Multi-device capability means several asio devices can be used at the same time with OBS Studio. Most applications written with ASIO support including DAW's are limited to one device.
* Multi-client capability means OBS can create several asio sources with different channel selections from the same device.    

## Installation and Usage ##

[Check the wiki](https://github.com/Andersama/obs-asio/wiki) 
## How to compile and install the plugin ##

[Check the wiki](https://github.com/Andersama/obs-asio/wiki)