Tascam US-144 (not MkII) and Windows 8

[A. AuCr]

So after a four hour fight getting my interface running on a newly built Haswell machine...

The Tascam US-144 works perfectly under Windows 8 64-bit on a Z87 motherboard, if you use the US-144MkII driver, version 2.03. Rock-solid in Reaper via ASIO at "lowest" driver latency setting.

According to Tascam the non-MkII interface isn't supported by this driver. Earlier versions of the driver do not work with Windows 8 (at least, not for me).

Driver link: http://tascam.com/product/us-144mkii/downloads/

Submitted so Google will index this and hopefully save someone in the future much hair-pulling!

[David Lovell]

Massive thanks for posting this.
I have been going crazy trying to get my Tascam US-144 to work on a 64-bit Windows 7 box.
After 8 hours of trawling forums with various keywords (specifically avoiding MkII), I somehow reached this post.
So, to augment the good work you have started, here are a few keyword-laden sentences to describe the problem and its solution for the search engines.

I have had a problem getting my Tascam US-144 audio interface to work on my 64-bit Dell Precision laptop running Windows 7. After installing the latest firmware and drivers, the interface continued to stutter and produce clicks that sounded a little bit like static. Audio sounded faint and heavily distorted as though only some of the signal bits were being passed to the device.

Thanks to the above post, I tried installing the latest drivers for the Tascam US-144 MkII interface instead, specifically
http://tascam.com/content/downloads/products/205/tascam_us_1...
and my problem was solved.

Please help others by linking back to this thread.
Cheers! David

[Martin Walker]

It's always rewarding when threads like this op up and solve long-running problems for someone, so thanks to you both for posting this info.

Also, welcome to the SOS Forums David!

Martin

[Salierix]

Hey guys, i really need some help making my tascam US144mkii to work on Win 8.1. I hear trough the phones mi guitar when I plug into the Guitar input, but cant make amplitube or cubase recognize the signal. Please wish you can give me some advice. I leave a link with screenshots of my configuration.
Thanks a lot.

http://www.yogile.com/p6cibqnd#41m