Yamaha MW10C & Sonar?

Hi, I'm new to the software/mixing department and was curious if people could make a suggestion for me. My favorite DAW is Sonar and I want to stick with it (after many hours learning how things work), but a not so close freind sold me his old Yamaha MW10C (USB Audio Interface) and said it would work with Sonar even though it came bundled with Cubase AI4. Well, I installed it and found it didn't have a dedicated ASIO driver, so I couldn't choose ASIO in Sonars Audio options without loosing everything from the list... Then to make things worse, after I installed the AI4, my Sonar turned to snap, crackle and pop during playback.... I have no clue what happened but something is now WAY OUT... Sync? or something.....

Does anyone have any experience with one of these units? and got it working with Sonar?

I've seen some advertisements for it listing it as not needing drivers, but now I think it's just some ploy by Yamaha/Cubase to try and grab software/hardware market share based on the bundle contents...(ie. sells very cheap for an entry level Audio Interface and includes software to mix on).

I've only been at it for one and a half days, but I'm thinking I'll pass this thing on to eBay ASAP........Hopefully some Cubase lover will pick it up.....
As for me though, any suggestions for an Audio Interface that supports USB/Phantom Power and around the entry level price range??

Thanks for any info.....

Thanks for that muso.......

However I fear there is some kind of version numbering problem, the one you linked to above is the original as far as I can tell, yet yamahasynth.com lists the original as v1.0.2 (Dec 2006) and another one called v1.0.0 that was released August 2008.

I still can't get SONAR to playback audio using the USB Audio Device driver (which is only WDM/KS), my generic Soundblaster card plays back fine with the Mixing Latency Buffer Size at 40msec, but the USB Audio Device still pops and crackles at as high as 185.8msec, then if I move the slider further right to 278.6msec the Audio Engine doesn't respond at all.

It's really annoying cause the unit itself (Yam MW10C) is not bad for the price, it's just not flexible outside the bundled Cubase.... Well, in my experience anyway...

I installed that 2008 driver and I was able to increase the Buffer size up to 278.6 and it played, it almost got rid of the popping too, but still not acceptable. :(

I'm a little ancient here - P4 3.0Gig, 2Gig RAM on XP Pro, it just amazes me the product comes out of the box working fine with Cubase, but nothing else.... well, on my system anyways.... I think that's a bit rude. And it's an Audio interface, without a dedicated ASIO driver...... I knew I should have done more research.....

you say it doesn't have an asio driver? but it does

http://europe.yamaha.com/downloads/en_WW/proaudio/mixers/mw10/

is the driver for it? if you see the manual-pdf for the file it installs some "KS driver" or something..

have you tried reinstalling the driver now after sonar's installed?

if the playback is so high, sounds like either

1) the driver isn't findable
2) sonar isn't in asio mode
3) are you sure you have unticked any onboard card on audio section of sonar.. you mention u have 2 cards.. sounds like it's defaulted to your SB.. untick that, then you should be able to tick /access this yamaha thing. then select asio mode for it

ORIGINAL: mrmaton01

Thanks guys for your help and references, you've brought my premature balding to a grinding halt!!

Can't thank you enough.
Cheers.

alas it was too late for me..hehe.. even without the headaches that are technology at times.