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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