This driver supports Windows XP, Vista, 10, 8, and 7, both 32- and 64-bit versions. Note: If a previous version of the USBPre 2 ASIO driver is installed on the Windows-based computer, it should be uninstalled prior to installing a newer version. For uninstall instructions, see Uninstalling the ASIO Driver in the USBPre 2 User Guide. The Digidesign CoreAudio Driver is a multi-client, multichannel sound driver that allows CoreAudio-compatible applications to record and play back through the following Digidesign audio interfaces. And i don’t need to use pro tools. Qualified with XP and Vista, not tested with Windows 7. Digidesign WaveDriver & ASIO Drivers. Yes, the ASIO Driver can also be used as a stand-alone driver without Pro Toolswith any of the Digidesign hardware systems listed at the top of this digidesign mbox asio. Audio output is not effected.
The Digidesign 002 Rack / Console is still a very common audio interface, mainly because of its high quality. The driver installation in Windows 7 though can be a bit tricky. At first you need the correct driver from here http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/download/Digi-002-003-Drivers. Be sure to download the correct driver for your interface. As of now it looks like this:
002 and 003 Family Drivers v9.0r3 (Mac) 0 MB DigiDioMidiDriver.plugin Fix v9.0 (Mac) for 003 and 002 Family 0 MB 002 and 003 Console Drivers v9.0.2.65 (Windows) 0 MB. As of Jan 2003, the Digidesign Digi001 and Digi002 ASIO drivers do not support the MIDI port. Functionality will only remain from within Pro Tools if the ASIO drivers are installed. If you return to the Wavedrivers, the MIDI port will once again be usable outside of Pro Tools.
9.0.8. – latest version for 002 Console
9.0.6. – latest version for 002 Rack
After downloading the driver simply install click the exe file and install them. In most cases the Windows Device Manager will still show you the Digidesign 002 & 003 device with no driver installed. Then you have to do the following;
– open the device manager
– right click the digidesign device Pak file opener.
– choose update driver
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– search the computer for a driver
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– choose for a list of drivers on this computer
– all devices => next
– have disk amd point to this directory C:ProgrammsAvid003 (Console)Streaming
– select the “Avid00Console.inf” file, select Digidesign 002, ignore all the Windows warnings
– check the device manager again => the device should now be listed at audio,video & gamecontrollers
Audio Stream Input/Output (ASIO) is a computer sound card driver protocol for digital audio specified by Steinberg, providing a low-latency and high fidelity interface between a software application and a computer's sound card. Whereas Microsoft’s DirectSound is commonly used as an intermediary signal path for non-professional users, ASIO allows musicians and sound engineers to access external hardware directly.
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ASIO bypasses the normal audio path from a user application through layers of intermediary Windows operating system software so that an application connects directly to the sound card hardware. Each layer that is bypassed means a reduction in latency (the delay between an application sending audio information and it being reproduced by the sound card, or input signals from the sound card being available to the application). In this way ASIO offers a relatively simple way of accessing multiple audio inputs and outputs independently. Its main strength lies in its method of bypassing the inherently high latency and poor-quality mixing and sample rate conversion of Windows NT 5.x audio mixing kernels (KMixer)[citation needed], allowing direct, high speed communication with audio hardware. Unlike KMixer, an unmixed ASIO output is 'bit identical' or 'bit perfect'; that is, the bits sent to or received from the audio interface are identical to those of the original source, thus potentially providing higher audio fidelity. In addition, ASIO supports 24-bit samples, unlike Windows NT 5.x MME and DirectSound which truncate 24-bit samples to the upper 16 bits, whereas Windows NT 6.x mixer provides 32-bit floating point output. Higher bit-depth samples offer the potential for a higher signal-to-noise ratio.