FMOD Studio ignores /etc/asound.conf when using ALSA as the back end

[Leah_FMOD]

@sldev

aplay -L only lists cards and channels, but never software mixer overrides/names you define in .asounrc/asound.conf, so if the FMOD Studio API only relies on this, it obviously cannot “see” the configuration done at the system level to override hardware defaults.

It’s possible that defaults.namehint.showall in /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf is set to off - if it is, you will either need to specify a device namehint i.e.

pcm.quad {
type multi
slaves.a.pcm “dmix:Audio,0”
slaves.a.channels 2
slaves.b.pcm “dmix:Audio,1”
slaves.b.channels 2
bindings.0 { slave a; channel 0; }
bindings.1 { slave a; channel 1; }
bindings.2 { slave a; channel 2; }
bindings.3 { slave a; channel 3; }
hint.description "this is a hint"
}

or change defaults.namehint.showall to on. For some additional context, and to double check whether this is an issue with FMOD, could I get your distro, ALSA version, and FMOD version?