Reply To: Frequent Podium crashes

January 27, 2013 at 09:22 #22771

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@druid wrote:

your USB device could be being powered down automatically by Windows

The US-600 is externally powered so there is no way I would know if Windows was doing something stupid like that, but it does have a USB indicator LED on the front that never goes out.
I *do* believe that the TASCAM driver is a bit flaky – there are times when I fire up Podium that it takes forever to come up, then gives me an error saying “can’t initialize audio interface.” I have to pull the USB connection and plug it back in to “reset” something, then it works. ANd in that case also other programs are still able to use the device, so this is a Podium-specific issue.

Ah! Externally powered, I had missed that. In that case, I would expect Windows not to bother with it, if it isn’t drawing power through USB.

I get a problem similar to (the same as?) that with my Tascam, and not just when I use its own ASIO drivers; the Tascam (or Windows) does not like waking up from sleep or hibernate and for the Tascam to work problem free. I have to then unplug it from the computer, then replug it in. It’s not hard, but it is a nuisance.

I have to admit, since I switched to using ASIO4ALL, even with my Tascam, I haven’t had driver problems. Just hardware problems. I’ll be avoiding Tascam in the future as hard as I possibly can .. which is a shame, because I think, on paper, their USB interfaces look useful and their price reasonable, more or less. After dealing with their support, however, and even offering to help them (not realising they didn’t care because they were about to release the US-144 mkII and thus were discontinuing support for the original), their complete lack of care, their dismissal etc etc … I just gave up and vowed to never give them another cent haha.

Anyway, I hope you get your problem sorted! I haven’t had any Podium-specific issues with the Tascam that I’m aware; though I think Podium has been a little more sensitive to it at times, I’ve had issues with my Tascam with all programs at one point or another, since I switched to Win7 (64-bit) from XP.