Amplitube 4-Behringer umc22 and backing tracks

adampeter

New set up on a windows 10 pc in my spare room for a bit of practice, after much fucking about got Amplitube 4 playing nicely with the Behringer interface with ASIO4All drivers , press play on a backing track, nothing, 
How do i play tracks outside Amplitube 4 so i can jam along side them?

LooseMoose

Welcome to the irritating world of Windows audio. Joking aside will be interested to know how you get round this too - I couldn’t work it out either! (Using a different DAW, but still).

stratman3142

I'm guessing you're using Amplitube 4 in stand-alone mode whereas I've always used it as a plugin-in in Reaper, then dragged a backing track into Reaper, which works fine.

As an experiment I just tried to use Amplitube 4 in stand-alone mode and couldn't get it to work with my ASIO device, and just get a message "Could not initialize audio device". I might be able to help if you try it as a plug-in in Reaper, but I'm stumped with stand-alone mode.

Fretwired

You can load backing tracks directly into Amplitube 4 - that's what I do. See what the guy does below - go to around 1min 50 secs.:

stratman3142

Weird. Amplitube 4 won't work for me in standalone mode whereas I've just tried S-Gear 2, Guitar Rig 5 and Kuassa which are all OK. Just curious because I never use them in standalone mode anyway.

Fretwired

stratman3142 said:

Weird. Amplitube 4 won't work for me in standalone mode whereas I've just tried S-Gear 2, Guitar Rig 5 and Kuassa which are all OK. Just curious because I never use them in standalone mode anyway.

It's an option when you install it. Looks like you only loaded the plugin.

stratman3142

Fretwired said:

stratman3142 said:

Weird. Amplitube 4 won't work for me in standalone mode whereas I've just tried S-Gear 2, Guitar Rig 5 and Kuassa which are all OK. Just curious because I never use them in standalone mode anyway.

It's an option when you install it. Looks like you only loaded the plugin.

No I've definitely got both the stand-alone and plug-in installed. I did some Googling and It would appear it's a known issue and there is a solution. But it's only of academic interest to me because I don't plan to use it in stand alone mode.

https://cgi.ikmultimedia.com/ikforum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=12935&start=15

Here's a pic of what happens in stand-alone mode.

https://i.imgur.com/irDa6Ov.png

Fretwired

OK. I've had that - it's easy to fix.

adampeter

Yeah i'm using it in stand alone mode, i use both youtube and transcribe for practice and it very annoying i can't play both amplitube and one of these together
Are there interfaces that don't use asio4all and would this solve the problem?

stratman3142

When using ASIO there can be issues on some systems when playing audio using two different applications at the same time. But, based on what @Fretwired said, you should be able to play an audio file from within standalone Amplitube. 

Fretwired

adampeter said:

Yeah i'm using it in stand alone mode, i use both youtube and transcribe for practice and it very annoying i can't play both amplitube and one of these together
Are there interfaces that don't use asio4all and would this solve the problem?

Yes. I have a Steinberg UR22 MKII interface and can use Amplitube 4 with YouTube no problem. The Steinberg unit is made by Yamaha and has good components and a rock solid ASIO driver which is important. It gets excellent reviews for the money.

The entry level is the UR12:
https://www.steinberg.net/en/products/audio_interfaces/ur_series/models/ur12.html

The next model up is the UR22:
https://www.steinberg.net/en/products/audio_interfaces/ur_series/models/ur22mkii.html

There are probably other units but I know these work.

stratman3142

Fretwired said:

adampeter said:

Yeah i'm using it in stand alone mode, i use both youtube and transcribe for practice and it very annoying i can't play both amplitube and one of these together
Are there interfaces that don't use asio4all and would this solve the problem?

Yes. I have a Steinberg UR22 MKII interface and can use Amplitube 4 with YouTube no problem. The Steinberg unit is made by Yamaha and has good components and a rock solid ASIO driver which is important...

So is it the interface or the computer that dictates whether multiple applications can use the ASIO driver? I can run multiple applications with my current computer with a Zoom UAC-2 interface. But could only run one application at a time with my previous old computer with an Audiophile 2496 PCI interface.

adampeter

stratman3142 said:

Fretwired said:

adampeter said:

Yeah i'm using it in stand alone mode, i use both youtube and transcribe for practice and it very annoying i can't play both amplitube and one of these together
Are there interfaces that don't use asio4all and would this solve the problem?

Yes. I have a Steinberg UR22 MKII interface and can use Amplitube 4 with YouTube no problem. The Steinberg unit is made by Yamaha and has good components and a rock solid ASIO driver which is important...

So is it the interface or the computer that dictates whether multiple applications can use the ASIO driver? I can run multiple applications with my current computer with a Zoom UAC-2 interface. But could only run one application at a time with my previous old computer with an Audiophile 2496 PCI interface.

Love to know the answer to this

adampeter

Looks like i have found the solution, link here
https://www.ikmultimedia.com/faq/?id=1236