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I will test recording in Sonar using the US-224 on my windows 7 laptop. If it works well then you can save yourself $100 - $200 right there on a audio interface.



My experience with the US-428, which uses the same driver as the US-224, was that it mostly didn't work with Windows 7. Tascam last updated the driver for Windows Vista, so the drivers are unsigned as far as Win7 is concerned. The US-428 driver DID work in Win7 when my Win7 was done as an update on top of Vista where the driver had been previously installed and working. When I started having issues with the update install and did a clean install on another drive, Win7 rejected the drivers as being unsigned. I did some extensive Googling and found several little tricks to force Win7 to take an unsigned driver, but each time I managed to get it to accept the driver, it didn't stick. Win7 always deleted the driver. I would point out too, that on the Vista to Win7 update, the presence of the US-428 always caused Win7 to hang on shut-down. If I remembered to turn the US-428 off before a shut-down, the computer would shut down normally. Other than that, the 428 operated normally.

I never did find a way to get the US-428 to operate with my clean install so I switched to the FW-1884 as my interface. Its a great mixer but TASCAM has told us that they aren't going to support it beyond Win7.

Keith
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