I don't use firewire, as it has been my experience that all the Apple inventions go obsolete sooner or later (I've had SCSI, Firewire, and even the input connector on my iPod is obsolete and my iPad has some lightning port that will eventually be orphaned).

Here might be a clearer explanation of my problem (sometimes it helps to say things in more than one way)

I'm trying to retire my old WinXP computer. I've been using it to record things in either Audacity or PTPro Audio through an Edirol UA-1A audio to USB interface.

I have 3 Edirol UA-1A and one Ediirol UA-20 USB to Audio interfaces. They all work fine on my XP computers using the standard Windows Audio drivers.

I need to figure out how to record on the Windows 8.1 computers before retiring the XP, and that's where the problem arises.

I plugged the UA-1A into the Win8.1 computer, it recognizes it and loads the standard Windows audio driver.

I connect the output of the mixer to the UA-1A audio input, and select the UA1A in Audacity. I select the Edirol as the input in the Devices dialog, and start recording. No signal, nothing, nada, zip, zilch appears in Audacity.

I make sure the UA-1A is not disabled and checked in the Windows Device Manager.

I try the same thing using Power Tracks Pro Audio DAW and I still can't see anything on the VU meters.

OK so I think something must be defective, so I try all 3 (known good) UA-1As, different audio cables and even a second Windows 8.1 computer.

I even tried shouting great obscenities, and that didn't work wink

Now if the great obscenities didn't work, will anything?

I could get a newer interface if that would work, but I hate to have another piece of gear hanging around if it doesn't.

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