

And this is on a computer that is on 24x7. But that isn't very common at all (every 3 months or so maybe). Worse case I have to unplug and reconnect the box. But this doesn't happen very often, assuming you have Windows configured to use the 48khz sample rate you use for audio. Usually when this happens I hunt down every app that has the audio device open and kill it/restart it. But native Windows apps will stop being able to make sounds. Oddly enough this doesn't happen to ASIO apps (they keep working at any sample rate), they seem happy to change the sample rate. When some Windows apps change the sample rate to 44.1 things can sometimes get stuck, doesn't happen often. I'm running version 4.59.0 which I believe is the last version.

There have been driver/firmware updates last year, so I'd make sure you get those. But I do have Windows configured to use 48khz just like all my ASIO projects in every daw. I'm definitely not having any driver disconnect issues. Audacity will work fine with all four channels on Mac or Linux.Īlmost all commercial software will work with the UMC’s ASIO drivers.I am using a UMC204HD (the smaller version). It falls back to the standard Windows stereo drivers. The free license Steinberg releases ASIO under is incompatible with Audacity’s GPL license. I assume this is in Windows? Audacity, for legal reasons, is incompatible with ASIO drivers. This post: discusses incompatibility between GPL and ASIO license: I’ve read where you can just use the ASIO driver in other programs like Reaper. But the old driver works great if you can get it.Īnd I don’t know if this issue only affects Audacity. Not sure if they will fix this issue in a coming release. I think you can still find the old driver online, but doesn’t look like Behringer provides it.

I’ve added a support ticket to Behringer’s support portal but I’m not hopeful.Īfter some more research, it looks like the newer driver from Behringer (4.38) is the problem and no longer supports 4 simultaneous channel recording.

Thank you!”īut didn’t give a URL for the download. The 3.29 driver is available through their website if you know the file name (…) and it immediately gave me 4 channels of recording with WASAPI and thus Audacity (2.33 on W10). This post outlines the identical problem: My device info for the UMC404HD’s inputs is (driver 4.59): =ĭevice name: IN 1-2 (BEHRINGER UMC 404HD 192ĭevice name: IN 3-4 (BEHRINGER UMC 404HD 192ĭevice name: IN 1-2 (BEHRINGER UMC 404HD 192k)ĭevice name: IN 3-4 (BEHRINGER UMC 404HD 192k) The OP’s device info shown by Audacity was: Device ID: 17ĭevice name: Line (2- BEHRINGER UMC404HD 192k) This post: is from 2018 - the driver in use then was probably 3.29 which was dated 2015.
