Wheatstone’s WNIP PC driver is an audio-over-IP driver designed for use in broadcast applications. It presents itself to Windows as
anywhere from 1 to 24 independent audio devices, and each shows up in the Windows Control Panel as a separate device for both
playback and recording.
A Google search shows the complexity of getting multiple audio input devices working in current versions of Adobe Audition. There are
helper applications like ASIO4ALL, Virtual Audio Cable and VoiceMeeter that have been written to help solve this problem. We have tried a
couple of these but had no luck using them with current versions of Audition or Reaper, another high-quality recording program.
We have also been asked about our compatibitily with ProTools. ProTools is designed to make use of multiple devices for acquisition of
audio, but at the present time our driver is not compatible with ProTools as it has strict controls on the amount of buffering and size of buffer
packets and requires a setting that the Wheatnet AoIP driver does not currently support. We expect to remedy this at some point in the
future.
We also have an ASIO version of the driver. This driver version does not make use of the Windows sound subsystem and thus nothing
shows up in the Windows Control Panel when it is installed. But it should work with any audio recording application that supports ASIO
natively.
Wheatstone makes the driver but we don't have any recording/editing software. Our goal is to help you succeed with our products so that's
why we searched out an application that would help you record multitrack audio with our AoIP driver audio and found one called Mixpad,
from NCH Software. There could very well be others but we aren’t sure as we primarily support the use of our driver for broadcast
applications rather than live audio recording. However we do have hundreds of customers recording multiple channels of audio
simultaneously, up to 24 channels, with audio logging programs for example.
As for the NCH company itself, from their website they seem to be based in Colorado but serve an international community. We can't say
anything about the suitability of the software for a given purposes beyond the testing we have already done.
It seems to be that the overall architecture of the Adobe Audition application wasn't designed with the ability to use multiple input devices in
mind (though it did work fine before Adobe re-wrote the original CoolEdit version), but rather only a single device with multiple audio
channels.
We can't test every piece of software that might be used with our driver. We know that Audition used to work, and a change was made that
made it no longer work. Unfortunately there just aren’t enough hours in the day to constantly monitor applications and test them for
compatibility.
If Audition is required, you might consider using the NCH application for audio acquisition and then export the tracks to Adobe Audition for
editing. And if you find other applications that work with multiple devices, please let us know