Apogee Duet 2 asio4all windows

Has anyone tried to get the duet 2 to work on a windows machine using asio4all and reaper Thanks

Thanks for your reply I figure the duet 2 is a fairly simple I/O that asio4all could bridge Are you thinking because there are no drivers at all asio4all wouldn't even recognize it as a usb audio device Thanks again

The Apogee Duet 2 is Mac only. There is however, a rebranded Avid Duet 2 that comes with a Windows driver, developed and supported by Avid. I'm not certain if the Avid Duet 2 (that is only available bundled with protools) is the exact same hardware. Knowing Avid, I'd suspect it to have some kind of hardware detection built-in to limit the use to their driver. It is, however compatible with other DAWS's and should work with Reaper. I'm not sure the Avid driver will work with an Apogee branded Duet 2.

Is it mac only because there are no official drivers for it? What happens when it's plugged into a windows machine? I'm sure windows sees a usb device? What's different from the avid driver and asio4all? I'm just curious I'm trying to get my hands on one just to see what happens

As I said, I don't know. The Avid offering is very recent, so I doubt you'll find someone on here who has experience with it. It also doesn't matter very much if it the original Duet 2 is detected, as you'll have no way to use it with Windows. I think Avid and Apogee just divided the market. Avid does Windows, Apogee does Mac.

I was hopeful that someone here had a duet that they could plug into a windows box and see what would happen I thought with asio4all you didn't need any factory drivers? Thanks for the input

I have been using Duet with Reaper on Windows (note, this was the ProTools/Duet device that works with both Win/Mac). With the stock drivers and control panel (version 1.0.5), all worked great. When I later updated the driver to 1.0.10, I could not adjust the buffer size within the Duet's control panel. This was PITA as the buffer stuck at 512 samples which is way too high for tracking. Since driver 1.0.5 are not available anymore and so I could not roll back, the only option for me to continue using Duet was to try ASIO4ALL. Surprisingly, this worked well and I was able to adjust the buffer size back to 64 samples. When measured, latency was the same as with 64 samples from Duet's control panel. So in summary, Duet works well with ASIO4ALL drivers and Reaper in my case. Once again, this is not Duet 2 which is seemingly a Mac only device.