I want to be able to play music through foobar, and also be able to play music through reason with my MIDI keyboard at the same time. Whenever I try to do this, Reason gives me an error, saying it can not open the sound device. If I have Reason already open, I can open foobar2000 fine, but no sound comes out when I try to play a file. I'm using the ASIO4ALL driver in Reason, and DirectSound in foobar.

If I switch Reason to DS also, it works fine, but DS is slow and laggy in Reason, so I want to be able to stick with ASIO in Reason.

I thought that maybe if I used the ASIO plugin for foobar, that maybe it would work, but the ASIO foobar plugin produced no sound. I think it may be a problem with the ASIO4ALL driver, but whatever.

My last hope is to maybe see if the kernel streaming plugin would work. I found the plugin (version 1.2.2), but I'm having trouble getting it to work.

It installs fine. Under the "componets" section, it lists it there correctly. But under the output section, there is no option to select it. All I see are "DS: Primary Sound Driver", "DS Speakers", "DS: Realtek Digital Audio", and "Null Output". Shouldn't there be a "KS" option in there somewhere?

I'm using the latest version of foobar (9.4.3), and Windows Vista.

ASIO only allows one client to the sound card and blocks everything else. So, there's no direct way to do this. From what I gather, when JACK's ported to Windows it might be possible to do this by connecting JACK to the soundcard via ASIO and a few audio sources to JACK, but I couldn't guarantee even that.

There is no Kernel Mixer anymore under Vista, hence the ks-output-plugin cannot find a valid connection.

It seems to be a driver problem. KS works (worked) fine on my trial installation of Vista.

It depends on the sound card, some work some don't (most if not all onboard audio).

Is it possible to get kernel streaming to work with my ALC889A audio contoller? I know its not a good one, but I would like it if foobar blocked other applications from using it like with my old card untill I buy a better one.

Kernel Streaming works fine with my ALC889A (I use XP).

It doesn't work under Vista however.

My older Realtek AC97 worked in Vista with Kernel Streaming, but it took up all sound channels (eg. no other app could play sound while Foobar was on).
My new ALC889A does not show up under KS at all, neither in Foobar nor Winamp. But, it doesnt have the cracking issue the AC97 had under DS mode, so it's not a problem.

Another question on kernel streaming:

I just installed 0.9.5.2 over 0.9.5.1, and on the first run it said it disabled KS (as well as ASIO), and indeed these components are ignored now despite files being in the components folder. What's going on, is KS (and ASIO) not available anymore? I needed KS very much because it bypasses the "wave" slider and lets me to set volume levels differently for foobar and other applications.

Any suggestions how to get KS (and ASIO) back will be appreciated. XP Pro SP2, SoundMax.