SylvanWindStudios
Did I paint myself into a corner by choosing Windows 8.1?
In certain situations, yeah you probably did. It was the same going from XP to Win 7. I got a nice little pile of hardware sitting here that just would not work with Win 7. That still annoys me that there wasn't a way for it to work. The thing you're up against with Tranzport is...it's discontinued so unless someone literally comes through with a work-around or some sort of modified custom driver, you'll probably never be able to use it on your Win 8 box.
I have a killer little JL Cooper mini desk mixer controller. I was devastated when it wouldn't work in Win 7. I even wrote the company and told them I'd be willing to pay for a custom driver to be made for it...they just replied "no and the guy that wrote the driver doesn't work here anymore."
I'm so tired of updating, new technology and spending money on this stuff only to be let down or working harder trying to resolve issues....that I don't see any huge updates in my near future. While others are tweaking and searching for alternatives, I got a few Win 7, Vista and XP machines that have incredible working hardware and software on them that allow me to get some work done. Seriously...isn't anyone tired of updating all the time? I'm using what I got here until it dies. :)
-Danny