Why Behringer?

[LTSU]

I recently bought the Behringer U-PHORIA UM2 audio interface to connect a guitar to my pc inorder to use an amp sim. After figuring it all out it works very well but one thing doesn't make sense. Even though Behringer has a purpose built ASIO driver for this, there is no mention of it anywhere (on their website) but insted they want you to use asio4all. Sure it works well enough but if anyone has ever used it, you'll probably know that the way it works is that when you have an amp sim or something else running using asio4all, it takes such control of the interface that you can't output any other audio to it (for example if you're learning a song with the help of some interactive tabs, it's kinda helpful to be alble to hear them). With the purpose bult driver everything does, however, work as you'd expect: thanks to asio there is practically no delay and other programs can also output to the interface with no problems.

 

So my question is, does anyone know why they do this? In my opinion it's just stupid that you have to spend hours upon hours googling this until you come across a youtube video where they mention that an actual driver exists. Seems kinda stupid for business to basially make their product seem worse than it actually is by not giving people the proper driver.

[Ahoy Hoy]

Because Behringer doesn't care for its customers.

[The Flying Sloth]

Because the UM2 is a legacy device no longer receiving software updates from the company and the newer drivers available are not compatible with the UM2 while the old drivers likely have spaghetti code and compatibility issues with newer systems so they simply don't support them anymore. This is one of the many reasons I don't recommend purchasing any interface cheaper than the UMC202HD and I made this point very clear in my gear guide. This interface is designed to be the cheapest possible solution for attaching an XLR mic to a PC and is most definitely not a good choice to purchase for low-latency workloads or serious studio use.

 

Keep in mind also that you can certainly use amp sims and the interface itself without ASIO drivers and you may find that it actually has less latency than a generic driver like ASIO4ALL. As for ASIO4ALL taking control of the device, every ASIO driver will do that unless you match the sample rates between Windows and the driver itself so that one is on you and nothing to do with Behringer.