I bought this audio/MIDI interface as I run Cakewalk Sonar X1 on my netbook and needed an audio/MIDI IO that would take processing away from the (limited) on-board sound chip. The reviews regarding interfacing the Tascam US-122MkII with Sonar X1 were not entirely encouraging, however, there were a number of people who had managed successfully. Having updated the unit to v2.03 and installed the updated Windows 7 drivers similarly, I found that using the unit at 48KHz/16 bit stereo (DVD quality), a latency figure of just 5.8ms is obtained using the WDM drivers through Sonar. The netbook and US-122mkII also worked very well at 96KHz/24 bits stereo once the correct buffer numbers/sizes had been set.

Are TASCAM drivers compatible with Mavericks 10.9.5 and Yosemite? According to Apple, OS X 10.9.5 includes heightened security measures that will also be part of OS X 10.10. These security measures will affect some TASCAM audio interfaces, so users are advised to be aware, and hold off on updating until further information is available.

Phantom power (48V) is provided to the two XLR microphone inputs and these work very well as does the 1/4' guitar/unbalanced microphone input. Direct headphone monitoring output could be a little louder for sound on sound monitoring with acoustic instruments. Line output (phonos) is fine.

The unit does exactly what it said on the box and is an elegant, well built solution for a slow audio chip workaround. It does need the USB 2.0 speed to handle the required data throughput, but is a very cost-effective unit.

One of the key features that I bought this for was to be able to play midi files through my PC's sound card using the Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth. According to the user manual that I'd read on line I'd be able to listen to this through the unit's line-out or headphones. I was intending to use this to play midi backing tracks while I played my guitar through the unit. I couldn't get this working and I found an addendum provided by Tascam that states that this is in fact NOT possible. I also had trouble getting the unit to work at all. This was resolved after 3 days when I pinned the problem down to the driver supplied. Downloading a new driver from Tascam sorted this problem.

Apart from these issues it does seem to be a really good unit. I bought this audio/MIDI interface as I run Cakewalk Sonar X1 on my netbook and needed an audio/MIDI IO that would take processing away from the (limited) on-board sound chip. The reviews regarding interfacing the Tascam US-122MkII with Sonar X1 were not entirely encouraging, however, there were a number of people who had managed successfully. Having updated the unit to v2.03 and installed the updated Windows 7 drivers similarly, I found that using the unit at 48KHz/16 bit stereo (DVD quality), a latency figure of just 5.8ms is obtained using the WDM drivers through Sonar. The netbook and US-122mkII also worked very well at 96KHz/24 bits stereo once the correct buffer numbers/sizes had been set. Phantom power (48V) is provided to the two XLR microphone inputs and these work very well as does the 1/4' guitar/unbalanced microphone input. Direct headphone monitoring output could be a little louder for sound on sound monitoring with acoustic instruments.

Line output (phonos) is fine. The unit does exactly what it said on the box and is an elegant, well built solution for a slow audio chip workaround. It does need the USB 2.0 speed to handle the required data throughput, but is a very cost-effective unit. One of the key features that I bought this for was to be able to play midi files through my PC's sound card using the Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth. According to the user manual that I'd read on line I'd be able to listen to this through the unit's line-out or headphones. I was intending to use this to play midi backing tracks while I played my guitar through the unit. I couldn't get this working and I found an addendum provided by Tascam that states that this is in fact NOT possible.

I also had trouble getting the unit to work at all. This was resolved after 3 days when I pinned the problem down to the driver supplied. Downloading a new driver from Tascam sorted this problem. Apart from these issues it does seem to be a really good unit. This product was made for Windows XP or Vista, and the disc doesn't have a driver for Windows 7 or 8. However there are newer drivers available to download on the Tascam website for Windows 7, so I assumed it would be ok to buy. But there is a problem with using this product with Windows 7, which is that sometimes all sound that is coming through the interface becomes really distorted.

This happens without warning and so far the only way to stop this is to restart the computer. Magix music maker 17 crack. After a quick google search I realised this is a widespread problem when using the Tascam US 122 MK II with Windows 7, and the feedback on forums suggests Tascam don't know what is causing the problem. Another problem I have found (and this may apply to Vista and XP too, I don't know) is that when I wake my laptop up from 'sleep' the interface is no longer recognized as the audio driver and takes a few minutes to be recognized (and sometimes it just doesn't recognize that and I have to restart the computer again). Whilst this may be more of a problem related to my laptop, I never had the same problem with my old interface (a Yamaha MW10C). I haven't even started using it to record my music, and I'm sure it's great for doing that from all the great reviews I've read about it.