You will LOSE ASIO support if you rollback your drivers!!!

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Iceblade
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You will LOSE ASIO support if you rollback your drivers!!!

Post by Iceblade »

SUCCESS! I now have ASIO support back and there IS a known issue with this. Thanks to Google and the Cakewalk forum for this info:
http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.asp?m=1424 ... 2&#1579251

After installing the driver... and then turning on the MOTU, Windows will need to finish loading the WDM/ASIO/GSIF/etc drivers for the unit. This is normal behavior (no matter what the manual might say )

If you reload the 3.6.7.4 drivers, you'll have to manually remove the (newer) "mfwaasio.drv" file from the Windows/System32 folder before installing them (the uninstall routine doesn't get rid of it... and it's not backwards compatible).

I uninstalled 3.6.7.4, rebooted. Removed the MOTU folder from Program Files and then removed the ASIO driver from windows/System32. Rebooted. Re-installed 3.6.7.4. Rebooted. Went through the Windows setup as it found my "new hardware" and TA-DA! I have everything back with hopefully fewer/no pops clicks and whistles.

Hope this helps someone else having issues.

Regards,
Jeff
Mark S
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Re: You will LOSE ASIO support if you rollback your drivers!!!

Post by Mark S »

good catch. I had variable results but that explains why my problems went away after I started manually removing all motu references in the registry and manually deleting all files.

Then I set a restore point,...

Really, the process is tedious since there's close too 800 keys I remove every time I make the effort (about 90 min) These sloppy drivers make a restore point necessary
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