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.
Continue Reading About ASIO (Audio Stream Input/Output). 1  Steinberg is the creator of the VST software plug-in format, and manufacturer of the popular MIDI sequencing package, Cubase. 2  Logic Audio from Emagic is an ASIO-compatible product. 3  So is Studio Vision and Vision DSP from Opcode. 4  And so is PARIS, a digital audio workstation from Ensoniq.