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help please with Sound card problem in CS6

Jun 19, 2012 8:01 PM

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I have just discovered that after installing AA CS 6... that the ASIO driver I've had for several years for my Presonus Firebox seems to have disappeared!!!

I have ASIO selected in edit >preferences > audio hardware... but in WIN XP Pro "device manager" my FireBox shows up as a "1394 WDM device" and the driver... although "working properly"... shows up as a WDM driver as well.

Does CS6 replace the ASIO driver with WDM???

If anyone can guide me on how to get back to ASIO I would appreciate. Forgot to mention that ASIO always worked as it should when I was using AA 2.0 and AA CS 5.5

Many thanks in advance for any help :-)

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1. Bob Howes,

Jun 19, 2012 10:31 PM in reply to cyberman45

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Well, Audition certainly doesn't replace ASIO drivers with WDM. In fact, though I'm sure the developers will be along in a while to set me straight, I can't see how updating Audition could even touch the drivers since they tend to be stored along with the Operating System on you computer rather than in any Audition folder.

In any case, whatever has happened, the first thing I'd do is install the most up to date Presonus Firebox drivers which you should be able to get from here: http://www.presonus.com/products/detail.aspx?productid=4

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2. SteveG(AudioMasters),

Jun 20, 2012 3:24 AM in reply to cyberman45

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cyberman45 wrote:

I have ASIO selected in edit >preferences > audio hardware... but in WIN XP Pro "device manager" my FireBox shows up as a "1394 WDM device" and the driver... although "working properly"... shows up as a WDM driver as well.

Does CS6 replace the ASIO driver with WDM???
As Bob says, Audition doesn't replace drivers. I'm not sure whether the OS actually recognises the presence of an ASIO driver though, because its primary purpose is to bypass as much of the OS as possible, and give software that does recognise it direct low-latency access to the device. So pretty obviously it has nothing to do with Microsoft!

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3. cyberman45,

Jun 20, 2012 4:33 AM in reply to SteveG(AudioMasters)

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Okay... many thanks for the info.
So I guess even if the Firebox is using the ASIO driver... XP will still show it as WDM in device manager. Surprised I didn't notice that before.

I'll head over to Presonus and get the "latest" driver.

Thanks again

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4. ryclark,

Jun 20, 2012 11:12 AM in reply to cyberman45

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Since ASIO drivers are designed bypass the operating system completely then XP (or Win 7) will only see WDM drivers natively.

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