Behringer ASIO drivers disappeared...

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2015/10/01 07:12:00 (permalink)

Behringer ASIO drivers disappeared...

Low end Behrigner devices (audio interfaces, Xenyx mixers) used to have Behringer custom drivers (WDM and ASIO). They was also advertised as "Ultra low latency".
 
These drivers had some strangeness: they was not really utra low in latency, ASIO buffer size was affecting WDM (system) sounds and ASIO mode was not blocking system sounds. But they was (and still are) working on all Windows incarnations (32/64bit, from XP up to Windows 10).
 
At some "unlucky" moment, they have completely disappeared from Behringer Downloads and replaced with ASIO4ALL.
 
One Behringer supporter claims in the forum there are no such drivers!
http://forum.music-group.com/showthread.php?7367-Where-did-the-Behringer-ASIO-drivers-for-the-UCG102-and-UM2-go
 
WARINING: these drivers are hard to find. On most driver download sites, you get some ".exe" file which is more than 2MB in size. Who knows what they "pack" there. Original drivers (64bit one is BEHRINGER_2902_X64_2.8.40.zip) are zip archives and they are less then 1MB in size!
 
What is going on with Behringer? The only guess I have: the drivers are signed by company with other name (I do not remember which), so can it be license issue?

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    Re: Behringer ASIO drivers disappeared... 2015/10/01 08:09:45 (permalink)
    I have a BCF2000 and its Windows "plug and play".   I use to have a Xenyx mixer and don't recall any drivers CD coming with it.  I never connected the mixer to the PC so I never looked for any drivers and don't know how it would have worked.

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    Re: Behringer ASIO drivers disappeared... 2015/10/01 08:49:19 (permalink)
    These links may work.
     
    32-bit: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zb8qdcng2gts8sl/BEHRINGER_2902_WIN32_2.8.17.zip?dl=0
    64-bit: https://www.dropbox.com/s/1x4g21ed44wuhke/BEHRINGER_2902_X64_2.8.40.zip?dl=0
     
    Behringer put these up. Don't know how long the links will remain valid.

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    Re: Behringer ASIO drivers disappeared... 2015/10/01 09:00:04 (permalink)
    Well, BCF2000 is not an audio device and not every Xenyx has USB audio interface. But small Xenyx with USB is cheapest "all in one solution" for home hobbyist like me, for example QX1202 with 4 pre-amps, several line ins and USB interface is the only device I could find under 100 euro to connect e-drums, Live Play GTX (for guitar and voice), extra mics if required. Unlike audio interface, all that working without computer. And with computer I can record/play something to/from sonar. All that has quite low quality, but it is in balance with the quality of sounds I produce on all instruments (may be except piano...). The noise level is definitively lower then from build-in Realtek (which I have connected to the mixer once).
     
    I was using that with XP running on (I know what you will think...) Atom based HTPC. Most synth was "no go" without rendering first, but otherwise I was satisfied (if I want do something with recorded results I use different PC in another room). I have updated to Win10, which in general is running much smoother. Once I have tried to redownload the drivers from Behringer I have found NO drivers. I took files I had on my old disk (I saved all versions I could find back in time, also 64bit one).
     
    Roland say some "old" drivers are not Win10 compatible, while they are (with installation tricks).
    Behringer say they have no (and had no!) drivers at all, while they have (and they are working without any tricks).
     
    Something is wrong here... It is interesting from where that comes.
     

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