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I have the us-224 working on a clean install on a windows 7 laptop.


If you actually did get the driver to stick in a clean install of Windows 7, I'd appreciate some insight on how you were able to do it. I don't need the know how for myself any longer, but I'm a moderator at tascamforums.com and get lots of questions regarding making the driver for the 224 and 428 working in Windows 7. It would be nice to pass on what you have learned. -- Keith



You know, I really should have taken screen shots as I went along and really documented it -- but I didn't know if it would work!! here's my best recollection. I used this post at http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/1101-63-tascam-driver-windows as a guideline:
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impy: Ok this post is the only way to make your lovely us-428 working atm with windows 7 32,64 bit.First of all download the official vista driver v 3.40 from http://tascam.com/content/downloads/products/314/US224_Win_3.40f.zip . After that you have to run the setup. During the installation steps you wll get an error message that the driver couldnt be installed. Bypass it!!!!!Now you must have a folder with the name US428 in your program files.This is the place where you must seek for the driver under the manual istallation process.Go to device manager, there you will find a unoknown device (this must be your us428 exept if you have others devices without drivers lol), righ click on it and choose update driver. Then choose the ''search my computer" option.Seek for your driver at US428 folder that we mentioned before and let windows handle the rest.That's it now you have your US-428 working.!!!!!



Here's what I did:

1.) Install the 3.40 windows vista tascam driver driver.
2.) When the "can't install" error popped up -- I just click OK.
3.) The extracted drivers were installed in the newly created c:\program files (x86)\us224\ folder.
4.) Here I deviated from the impy's instructions. There was no "unknown device" in the "device manager" list. So I plugged in and turned on the Tascam US-224. Windows did its thing "recognizing" the plugged in USB device. I don't remember the messages here (sorry). I then went to the control panel --> device manager and lo and behold there was an "Unknown device" listed.
5.) I right clicked on it, selected "Update Driver Software". I clicked on "Browse My Computer..." since I knew the drivers were in the c:\program files (x86)\us224\ folder.
6.) After that, everything seemed to work as expected.
7.) I am using MME audio "driver mode" for sonar because the laptop built in soundcard couldn't use anything else. When I record, if I have extra latency, I'll try the WDM/KS "driver mode" (this is the one I am using in Sonar on my Vista machine).

I hope I covered everything.

Kevin

P.S. Follow-up: I just recorded a direct plugin electric guitar to the US-224 and I did need to switch away from the MME driver mode to WDM/KS to eliminate the fairly obvious latency in playback. In any case, I was able to add a recorded track to a sonar file using the us-224 in windows 7.

Last edited by Kemmrich; 01/06/12 08:22 AM.
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