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

[Patrick Perdue]

On that note, I just picked up a Griffin iMic for $10. It has a stereo 
line/mic input, which is just a little noisy (insert sarcasm here,) 
though it is stereo, but the output is quite clean, certainly sounds 
nicer than any of the C-Media/SSS Chinese dongles I have.
I mostly bought it to use as a sound device for virtual machines.
There is no physical volume control, just a switch on the side to turn 
plugin power on and off for the input jack.

On 1/23/2014 11:32 AM, Indigo wrote:
> 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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