[RWP] Does Behringer U-CONTROL UCA222 have internal drivers?

[Indigo]

Well, that little cheap Chinese USB device that; I think; you also have; 
says in the included docs that came with mine it has a USB driver built 
in the hardware, so requires no external drivers whatsoever.
Maybe that is true, I guess I could get it up and going, then go to 
Control Panel/System and look to learn what driver, if any, is shown; 
that is; if I cared enough.
I save it for emergency use, when all else fails, like it came in handy 
when doing an OS install that didn't include RealTech drivers.
It was useful just now; to show me that the PCI express Asus card is the 
only sound engine that quits speaking after I opened Reason 7.


Anyway, if you can hear the Behringer U-CONTROL UCA222 opening and 
closing its audio constantly, that definitely rules it out for speech.
The first thing I would have thought was that it is a noise gate that 
was opening and closing, so the user can't hear the nasty background 
hiss from its cheap AD/DA converters. smile.

I have a very quiet and transparent sounding  USB device, the eMu 0404 
USB, which has XLR ins and headphone amp, but Creative eMu says it 
cannot be used simultaneously with my eMu 16 16M PCIE card.
I think they're probably correct, since Creative tends to use the same 
strings of code in all their drivers, so one can expect all kinds of 
conflicts when using more than 1 of their products.
With extreme care and careful order of installation, some have run an 
eMu soundcard plus something like an Autigy card, but I really want to 
totally avoid those times when software gets into a head-butting fight 
and speech disappears.
I guess I'll look for a USB device for speech other than the cheap 
little Behringer,
Thanks,
Indi



On 1/23/2014 10:33 AM, Patrick Perdue wrote:
> It just uses the default Windows composite audio class USB driver.
> It opens and closes it's op amp every time speech starts and stops, so I
> wouldn't recommend using it with speech unless nothing else works.
>
> What's this "internal driver" thing all about? I don't understand this
> terminology.
>
>
> On 1/23/2014 10:36 AM, Indigo wrote:
>> I just tested with my $10 thumb drive sized USB device, and the Asus
>> Xonar soundcard is definitely failing to provide speech, when the little
>> USB device does work for speech.
>> I'm wondering if the Behringer U-CONTROL UCA222 has its own internal USB
>> drivers, or does it use the Microsoft Generic USB Audio Driver?
>> The little $10 USB device really has independent internal drivers, so
>> sometimes will work at very low computer levels, when nothing else would
>> provide speech.
>> It's just crude sounding, and invariably comes on at ear-splitting
>> volume.
>> The $30 Behringer U-CONTROL UCA222 at least has its own headphone volume
>> control, and claims high quality ad/da converters.
>> I wouldn't expect those to be fantastic, but if it'll be totally
>> reliable for hardware speech, it'll do.
>> So, my only concern is whether the U-CONTROL UCA222 has its own internal
>> drivers or uses the default MS generic USB audio driver?
>> Thanks for any help,
>> Indi
>>
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