It’s always a PITA when Interfaces ports/TECH etc are continuously changing.
I sill have a 20U filled with MOTU Firewire Interfaces and remember that even with the same connectors for the interfaces/sound cards,I had to watch for Chipsets.
I haven’t made the move to upgrade any of my systems to Thunderbolt…yet.
I don’t know if it will be of any help (Trouble shooting etc)…I figured it couldn’t hurt to have All the Thunderbolt info in one place for future reference.
Thunderbolt and Thunderbolt 2 aren’t compatible with Thunderbolt 4… Thunderbolt 3 is.
Thunderbolt and Thunderbolt 2 specifications will work with most Thunderbolt 3 PCs via an adapter, except Intel platforms launched in 2020 and later.
Difference Between 4 Types of Thunderbolt (1,2,3,4)
Thunderbolt vs USB-C (11 Key Differences)
PRESONUS
Quantum 2626 (Thunderbolt 3) customers that are having crashing issues on Windows 10 or 11, please make sure you are using Universal Control 4.1 (released April 18, 2023) or later with Windows 10 20H1 or Windows 11 22H2 or later.
*Installation note for macOS users
ASIO4ALL
ASIO4ALL is ancient…was mainly for laptops with crappy soundcards.
ASIO4ALL uses a low-level Windows audio API…Kernel Streaming (“DirectKS”, “WDM-KS”) to operate
There is another option available…
FlexASIO
FlexASIO is a ASIO wrapper…a pseudo ASIO device that can have inputs and output from different devices.
FlexASIO differentiates itself by using an intermediate library called PortAudio that itself supports a large number of operating system sound APIs, which includes Kernel Streaming and WASAPI (in shared and exclusive mode), but also the more mundane APIs MME and DirectSound.
FlexASIO can be used to interface with any sound API available on a Windows system. For more information, see the backends documentation.
FlexASIO, the flexible universal ASIO driver
There isn’t an official GUI…3rd party FlexASIO GUIs do exist:
flipswitchingmonkey’s FlexASIO GUI