I've 'sort of' answered my own earlier
question.
On the portaudio web site I found the
following:
Some advantages of using DirectSound are that DirectSound may have lower
latency than WMME, and supports effects processing plugins. But one disadvantage
is that DirectSound is not installed on all PCs, and is not well supported under
Windows NT. So WMME is the best choice for most projects.
DirectSound - If you want to use the DirectSound implementation of
PortAudio then you must have a recent copy of the free
DirectX SDK for
Developers from Microsoft installed on your computer.
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According to that documentation (more at http://www.portaudio.com/docs/pa_tut_pc.html)
Port Audio will work with both WDM and MME; however, the choice is really
determined by my computer's configuration and whether or not I have DirectX
installed.
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Has anybody had any success with PD using ASIO
MME?
Has anybody had any success with PD using ASIO
WDM?
Has anybody had any success with PD using
ASIO?
Regards
Dave S