Phantom Realtek Device

[Justin Broad]

I am using Cakewalk with a Behringer UMC 204 with the latest drives. Whenever I try and select  ASIO as the driver mode I get an error saying the Realtek ASIO driver is incompatible with Cakewalk. The motherboard does have a Realtek device, but I have disabled it in the bios. In Cakewalk Preferences > Audio > Devices, there is no Realtek device. In Windows Device Manager (Windows 11 21H2) there is no Realtek device. The ASIO driver work fine all the other apps I have installed.

Any ideas what's going on?

Thanks

Justin

[tecknot]

Hi Justin,

I would guess it is the Realtek Asio driver still installed on your machine.  Try removing the drivers for Realtek.

Kind regards,

tecknot

[Justin Broad]

As far as I can see there are no Realtek drivers installed.  Windows Devices Manager doesn't see the Realtek device

[Xoo]

But the existence of an ASIO driver is stored in the registry, even if the device/driver is disabled in Device Manager.

[scook]

Make sure

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ASIO

in the registry only contains an entry for the Behringer UMC 204.

If there is an entry for RealTek, delete it.

[Justin Broad]

Deleting the Realtek registry key did the trick, thanks ?