Reaper works fine, but it also has ASIO support. If I change “audio system” to ASIO, I then have options of selecting “US-800 1/2”, “US-800 3/4,” and “US-800 5/6” for my inputs. If I leave “audio system” as DirectSound (which is an option in Audacity), then I have the option of only selecting “US-800 (microphone)” as my input device.
In Audacity, using MME or DirectSound, my input device reads “Microphone (3-US-800 Audio)”, and I can select 1 (mono) or 2 (stereo) channels.
I’m not sure about Cubase - I found it very difficult to use out of the box (which was two years ago), and I’ve since gotten a new PC and the licensing process for it was so tedious that I haven’t bothered reinstalling it (if I even can).
Do you have the latest drivers from > http://tascam.com/product/us-800/downloads/> ?
Yes.
Have you looked at “Direct I/O” in the Tascam control panel? According to the manual > http://tascam.com/content/downloads/products/207/us800_om.pdf > you should be able to set WDM (non-ASIO) output for the Tascam inputs there. Have you tried soloing the channels you want to send to the computer using that control panel?
I’ve tried soloing the channels, to no avail. I’ve tried changing the H/W input to WDM, but there’s no difference. You can set WDM, but if you look at the flowchart, it would still go H/W In → WDM → ASIO → DAW → ASIO, so I don’t see how you escape Audacity needing that compatibility.
You don’t say what version of Audacity (see the pink panel at the top of this page). The latest version is 2.0.5 - get it from > Audacity ® | Download for Windows > .
My fault. I read it, but it just slipped my mind. I’m up to date with 2.0.5.
But if you try Audacity 2.0.4 from > https://audacity.googlecode.com/files/audacity-win-2.0.4.zip > it has an extra “host” in Device Toolbar called “Windows WDM-KS” that “might” show you more than two channels in Audacity if Windows sees them. Even if that works, you will probably have to select six recording channels in Audacity to record the first two.
Just to add the caution there is the small chance that WDM-KS could freeze or crash your computer because some motherboard sound devices have problems with it.
It shows me 8 channels in Audacity, but won’t let me record. It gives me the “Error while opening sound device, please check device input settings and project sample rate.” In all three places - the US-800 control panel, Windows recording devices (which only shows 2 channels, by the way - is this the issue?), and Audacity are all at 24-bit, 44.1k.
For now I would suggest you go to Help > Audio Device Info… in Audacity 2.0.5 and post the contents of that here. Do the same for 2.0.4 if you try that version.
My interface is on there several times as an input, the first three in both .5 and .4:
Device ID: 1
Device name: Microphone (3- US-800 Audio)
Host name: MME
Input channels: 2
Output channels: 0
Low Input Latency: 0.090000
Low Output Latency: 0.090000
High Input Latency: 0.180000
High Output Latency: 0.180000
Supported Rates:
Device ID: 8
Device name: Microphone (3- US-800 Audio)
Host name: Windows DirectSound
Input channels: 2
Output channels: 0
Low Input Latency: 0.120000
Low Output Latency: 0.000000
High Input Latency: 0.240000
High Output Latency: 0.000000
Supported Rates:
Device ID: 18
Device name: Microphone (3- US-800 Audio)
Host name: Windows WASAPI
Input channels: 2
Output channels: 0
Low Input Latency: 0.003000
Low Output Latency: 0.000000
High Input Latency: 0.010000
High Output Latency: 0.000000
Supported Rates:
Then 2.0.4 has this additional one:
Device ID: 25
Device name: Microphone (US-800)
Host name: Windows WDM-KS
Input channels: 8
Output channels: 0
Low Input Latency: 0.010000
Low Output Latency: 0.010000
High Input Latency: 0.085333
High Output Latency: 0.085333
Supported Rates: