I notice that in Cubase 13 you now have a Steinberg ASIO driver. Cool.
I also have Adobe Creative Suite for all the image and video editing stuff it can do. So I use Audition for my final mastering editor. Not wild about it, but it works.
I have found, to my surprise, that it matters if you use the same ASIO driver in Cubase as in Adobe Audition. Otherwise how it sounds in Cubase is surprisingly different from Audition. (Like big EQ differences.)
So when I upgraded to Cubase 13, sure, I’ll give Steinberg’s ASIO driver a try. But when I set Audition to also use the Steinberg ASIO driver, the result is a garbled audio mess.
Not a big problem for me – back to my trusty former ASIO driver. But I thought you might like to know.
For more than 20 years.
It is a generic ASIO to “whatever the OS uses” wrapper. Not a driver that talks directly to the audio hardware.
Which ASIO driver are you using?
If your audio hardware has its own custom made ASIO driver it is always better to use that than the Steinberg Generic driver.
I have a FocusRite interface, so I generally use that ASIO driver. I’ve tried the others ASIO4ALL, Generic ASIO, and unsurprisingly the Focusrite one works best.
What DID surprise me is that there was a period of time when I had Cubase set to FocusRite, but accidentally left Adobe Audition on Generic ASIO, and couldn’t figure out why the two sounded so different. Like, major EQ different. Setting to the same ASIO driver fixed that.
I just saw the Steinberg ASIO driver pop up, and thought I’d give it a test drive. It’s unusable in Audition.
Something else is wrong then. It’s not like the driver itself automatically creates a “garbled audio mess” or a “big EQ difference”. Just doesn’t work that way.
How would the driver know that it’s you that is using it?
I’m not saying you don’t have problems on your setup, I’m just saying that a driver doesn’t cause those differences by itself. Over the course of a couple of decades I’ve never run into that with a driver.