The older computers also ran around 1 to 4 megahertz (MHz), whereas the Raspberry Pi runs at 700 MHz. And the Raspberry Pi is far from the average home PC. Today, boxes with 2 GB RAM and 2 GHz processor speed are common.
ASIO is a standardized way of describing the communication between audio software and a piece of audio hardware. It enables audio hardware manufacturers to write optimized drivers for their hardware that bypass the potentially high latency operating system mechanism for supporting audio hardware.
AMD Catalyst (formerly named ATI Catalyst) is a device driver and utility software package for Advanced Micro Devices 's graphics cards and APUs. It runs on Microsoft Windows and Linux, on 32- and 64-bit x86 processors.