How to remove old ASIO devices from Device list?

nc2010 · Post by **nc2010** » Wed Jan 28, 2015 12:14 pm

Do you know how to remove old ASIO devices from Device list?

chrk · Post by **chrk** » Wed Jan 28, 2015 3:25 pm

How to reset Live? | Ableton

Side effect: you'll need to set up your midi preferences again.

nc2010 · Post by **nc2010** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 1:41 pm

It didn't work (even after preferences.cfg reset, the old ASIO devices are still displayed...)

BUT

it had, as side effect, the fact of having to rescan all VST devices

chrk · Post by **chrk** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 2:01 pm

nc2010 wrote:it had, as side effect, the fact of having to rescan all VST devices

Yes, that too. EVERYTHING goes back to factory defaults.

nc2010 wrote:It didn't work (even after preferences.cfg reset, the old ASIO devices are still displayed...)

Then that shan't be a Live specific problem.

Do those devices appear as well, when you chose the MME/DirectX driver type?

Richie Witch · Post by **Richie Witch** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 3:27 pm

If you're running Windows, you can uninstall the drivers at the Add/Remove Programs screen in the Control Panel. Once you uninstall them there, they won't show up in Ableton anymore.

If you're on a Mac? /shrug

chrk · Post by **chrk** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 4:29 pm

Richie Witch wrote:If you're on a Mac? /shrug

ASIO is a Windows-only model.

If you're running Windows, you can uninstall the drivers at the Add/Remove Programs screen in the Control Panel. Once you uninstall them there, they won't show up in Ableton anymore.

The caption on the screenshot claims, he's already uninstalled the drivers, but meybe the uninstallers haven't done a good job of it, or he hasn't even used them.

You are able to deactivate, uninstall (with a delete driver files option) from the Windows Device Manager. Not a good idea, becaus it only handles the Windows audio system, it's not aware of ASIO or the several control applications that are installed with the drivers and wouldn't handle a ton of registry entries.

Richie Witch · Post by **Richie Witch** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 5:26 pm

chrk wrote:The caption on the screenshot claims, .

There's a screenshot? Oh, must be blocked here at work.

nc2010 · Post by **nc2010** » Wed Feb 18, 2015 12:39 pm

The solution finally was to search the device name in regedit.exe (with F3) and delete all references to them.

Gh0s · Post by **Gh0s** » Mon Feb 12, 2018 1:37 am

nc2010 wrote:The solution finally was to search the device name in regedit.exe (with F3) and delete all references to them.

THANKS, not a lot of people have this problem apparently.
regedit.exe and F3 search successsfully removed my old ASIO v1 driver

le barde · Post by **le barde** » Sun Oct 20, 2019 9:48 am

Yes, thanks for that !!

an-tre · Post by **an-tre** » Sat Nov 05, 2022 9:11 pm

Removing unneeded devices from Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ASIO in Registry fixed this.

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