Hi there
I have reported this to Sony as an issue, but hope that someone here might be able to help!
I've just bought a Vaio VPCF13S1E/B (Intel i7, 6Gb RAM, 500GB 7200 rpm Hard Drive) running Win 7 - 64bit as a desktop replacement that I will be using for music production. (It's the one with 2 x USB 3.0 ports)
Everything is fine apart from a really annoying issue - I have a new Tascam US-800 (USB 2.0) external audio interface which installs fine (drivers + control panel) and can be selected as default sound recording and playback device. It is not bus-powered and runs off its own Power supply.
However, I get no sound throughput at all when it's plugged into either of the USB 3.0 ports.
At first I thought there might be a problem with the Tascam, but it installs and runs perfectly on my old Desktop (Win 7 - 32 Bit, Core 2 Quad, 4GB Ram etc) and also works perfectly when I've done a test install on my wife's Dell notebook and my sons's Acer (both of which are running Win 7 - 64bit)
I've used identical conditions on the other machines (selecting as default device for playback & recording, testing play playing a sound file through iTunes & Media Player etc)
When I pug the Tascam (with difficulty!) into the USB 2.0 / eSata port on the Vaio, it works fine - problem here is that I need the eSata port to run a second hard drive at the same time as using the Tascam so I need to use the USB 3.0 ports
This all looks to be like there is something dodgy with USB 3.0 / 2.0 compatability - other devices such as external drives, mouse, keyboard etc work fine through the USB 3.0 ports
Has anyone else had this kind of issue? - are Sony working on a patch?
If anyone could help I would be very grateful
Cheers
Mike
