nickgorrell
Hi, My old cakewalk UA-25EX has died due to windows 10 and drivers
My UA-25EX works fine with Win 10, drivers automatically downloaded when I plugged the interface in.
I have over the years accumulated an Edirol UA-25EX, UA-101, Roland OctaCapture, QuadCapture, DuoCapture EXII, PreSonus, Tascam US1641, 1800, 16x08, 20x20, 2x2 and 1x2.
Edirols are great but there are better pres around in newer gear. The 101 still serves as an interface for all my rack gear.
I much prefer the new Tascams. Super low noise pres, no issues when connecting to other gear and low digital ground loop noise. I have always found Tascam quoted specs to be very conservative.
Earlier drivers had latency issues but all that is fixed now. In general I have the impression Tascam releases the product before the drivers are ready, which damages their reputation unnecessarily.
The Rolands are all microphonic when you tap them. The QuadCapture has a low hum on the instrument input which becomes audible when the track is compressed. The auto level setting concept doesn't work for me and the OctaCapture has especially high digital ground loop issues and has, perhaps for that reason, only 50dB gain max, but I use them for drums anyway (two can be used together). On the other hand, they all have drivers that work with XP, so I keep them for my mobile rig which is still XP.
The Presonus drivers have issues with some of my audio programs and it shows a silly icon whether I am using it or not. After a second version was released with other issues (and no development done anymore), my Presonus now resides in my dud gear box. My first and last Presonus.