I'm excited to see and hear that my (Mark of the Unicorn) MOTU M2 can now handle audio from multiple programs running in Windows at once, e.g. Pianoteq + an mp3 player. MOTU has apparently mostly fixed the Windows 11 software/drivers/whatever it is that makes them work in non-exclusive mode.

I noticed this because after a while of using Windows+MOTU M2 perfectly satisfactorily in ASIO exclusive mode, and updating Windows regularly, it started to sometimes decide for me what the best sample rate and buffer would be. So Pianoteq would load up in 96khz but like 50ms delay. Very disorienting. Or my mp4 playing app would play audio pitched up about 5 percent. Bizarre. So I updated to the MOTU driver and software package from their site and discovered this nice treat.

More exploration of this to come before I can say for sure it does everything I could hope for-- are some apps not going to play well in nonexclusive mode for example, but I think this is very possibly great news.

The latency is also better

I noticed this because after a while of using Windows+MOTU M2 perfectly satisfactorily in ASIO exclusive mode, and updating Windows regularly, it started to sometimes decide for me what the best sample rate and buffer would be. So Pianoteq would load up in 96khz but like 50ms delay. Very disorienting. Or my mp4 playing app would play audio pitched up about 5 percent. Bizarre. So I updated to the MOTU driver and software package from their site and discovered this nice treat.

More exploration of this to come before I can say for sure it does everything I could hope for-- are some apps not going to play well in nonexclusive mode for example, but I think this is very possibly great news.