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

[Chris Belle]

I picked up a dongle like usb sound card a while bacfk from directron.

It has a via chip set, but it has drivers you can install to make it better than the class compliant defaults, and it was pretty nice for a 20 dollar device.

I even ran it in my daw just to see what'd happen and got the latency down to acceptable levels believe it or not.
I wouldn't use this as an interface of course, but it would do in a pinch if you had to for something quick and dirty.

It's got that typical turn the gain way down for a line level, but it is stereo in, most of those cheapo sound card deals are mono in.

And this one would go up to 192 khz too.




  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Patrick Perdue 
  To: Reapers Without Peepers 
  Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 10:52 AM
  Subject: Re: [RWP] Does Behringer U-CONTROL UCA222 have internal drivers?


  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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