Sunday, October 2, 2011

Windows 7 audio : Supported formats vs Default format

Windows 7 and/or some of the audio device drivers have a useful set of settings.
For example, the "Supported formats".
I have my device connected to an old Roland VM-3100Pro mixer which only supports 44.1kHz sampling rate PCM. So, I selected the following :




I thought this was sufficient to get sound working. I was wrong.
Despite my choices, Windows and Realtek had automatically selected the following "Default format" :



Notice that the 48 kHz rate. Never mind that I didn't select that in the "Supported formats". This should not happen. Windows should never pick a format that's been marked as unsupported.
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  1. AnonymousFebruary 2, 2012 at 4:27 AM

    Where did you find a driver for Windows 7 for the VM-3100 RPC card? Been looking everywhere
    email please paul at windplay dot ca

    Thanks.

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