I don't put much faith in this driver. MS said it is developed in partnership with Yamaha. But Yamaha's (or in fact Steinberg's, owned by Yamaha) recent attempt at creating a universal ASIO driver gave mediocre results. I was never able to go lower than 20 ms with it, which is unusable for live playing. Actually, WASAPI performed much better on my test setup. Let's see if MS proves me wrong this time.

 

The Yamaha Steinberg drivers for their interfaces are rock solid, though. I've only had like, five crashes in six years using them daily. Super low latency too, on par with every other interface on the market.

I had no idea that was a thing, my experience is all Windows and Linux, and every time someone mentions pro audio on Mac, they always say Mac doesn't need drivers. Unless Microsoft is willing to rewrite ASIO, then I doubt those specific drivers are going away anytime soon.

 

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Just a reminder: There is no such thing as "pure" capitalism.
There are many forms of capitalism, and many definitions of capitalism, and the word is often incorrectly used and a substitute for the word "greed".
You think "capitalism" = greed, but you are wrong.
Microsoft may be a capitalistic company, but that is not what makes it greedy.

It only takes ONE contrary example to disprove a theory, and there are millions of capitalistic companies and people who are NOT greedy.
Capitalism is NOT greedy by default, although it seems many like to think soin order to avoid the unfortunate truth : PEOPLE are greedy.

Getting rid of capitalism NEVER gets rid of greed.
It only limits the number of people who can act on their greed.