I upgraded my lappy this year and like most people went for the very latest build . I was pleased to see my new laptop has 2 x USB3 , i thought that would be great as I suspect that the next generation of audio devices will be USB3 and for now the ports will fallback (as designed) to USB2 when an apropriate device is connected.
I was wrong!
The problem I face, is that none of my audio gear, Denon, NI, Yamaha, CME, Korg works, the device is seen and installed, but will not work in real time or work at all (any audio stream).
The chip used by many manufactures is the old NEC chip, now owned and branded Renesas. http://www2.renesas.com/usb/en/about_usb/USB3_3.html
All the reports of poor perfomance and dropouts seem to have been addressed now, mainly focusing around external Hard disc, mice, printers etc.
I have rasied the point many times, but Dell / Renesas say that it's such as small amount of calls that they don't see it as a problem.
So my question again, has anyone got a working example of USB3 and MIDI / Audio.
If you have, i would like to know what combination you have .. e.g.
Mac Book Pro '11 - NiKontrol S4 - NEC chipset FW xx.xxx Driver version xxx
Acer thing - audio device 1 - joebloggs chipset - FW 12.9 - Driver 3.4 WinXP
or if you want you can share your experiences with USB3 and if you had problems .
thanks for reading
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