My Edirol UA-25 Sound Card crashed during the recording of a song, overusing the modulating wheel on a USB piano, the Sound Card froze up with a continuous whining, could only get rid by unplugging USB cable from Sound Card.
Had to reboot Windows Vista to refind the Sound card, the lights on the card lit up, but Vista did not recognise the Edirol sound device and under Play, Record 'no audio device installed'.
I have uninstalled and re-installed the Sound Card driver for my Edirol USA-25 external Sound Card, and it has been found when the Sound Card was plugged in, and installed ok.
I tried to get Vista to recognise the card by unplugging the sound card and plugging it back it, but Vista only installed the Generic USB Composite Device.
This gives me Playing of sounds, but the Recording still has 'no device installed'
The driver being used is NOT my usual Edirol Sound card driver, it is giving me speaker choice options I don't usually get?
Looks as if Vista is not 'seeing' my installed Edirol drivers, and installing some generic driver instead which only gives playback, not record facillities?
My Vista Sound Service is running ok, as I can hear sounds playing, but the record function is just not showing up anywhere, either in Vista or in Cubase, my sound recording software.
Any ideas why Vista is choosing to install a generic USB sound driver instead of seeing the installed Edirol software?
Any ideas why Playing is ok, but Recording is not showing the installed driver?
thanks for any help
Achintya
OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista" Ultimate
Version 6.0.6001 Service Pack 1 Build 6001
System Manufacturer Dell Inc.
System Model Dimension 8400
System Type X86-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz, 2992 Mhz, 1 Core(s), 1 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Dell Inc. A09, 07/07/2006
SMBIOS Version 2.3
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United Kingdom
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.0.6001.18000"
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 3.00 GB
Available Physical Memory 1.54 GB
Total Virtual Memory 6.85 GB
Available Virtual Memory 5.37 GB
Page File Space 3.91 GB
Page File D:\pagefile.sys
I would do a system restore back to before the crash and then re-install the edirol software/drivers again.
Go to Audio and hardware, and make sure that your edirol soundcard is chosen for recording and playback.
Also you don't mention MIDI -- Shouldn't you be recording your keyboard as midi into Cubase? I don't see the Edirol saying that it has a MIDI set, so what are you using for MIDI?