Focusrite ASIO drivers with AVG - problem and solution.

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Focusrite ASIO drivers with AVG - problem and solution.

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Yesterday, I opened up Reaper and played a project only to find that the play bar was stuck. I had selected ASIO audio system and Focusrite Scarlett 18i20 as my device, but the program stalled. If I switched to WaveOut the thing played ok, but that doesn't recognise all my inputs.

I did quite a bit of googling, to no avail, but then I logged in to the Focusrite website. I found that reports had been coming in that AVG antivirus was causing a problem with Scarlett ASIO drivers, somehow mistakenly identifying them as potentially harmful programs. The suggested fix was to uinstall AVG.

I opened up AVG and sure enough saw that an update had been done the day before - up until then, my AI and Reaper had been working faultlessly. I uninstalled AVG, restarted my computer and now everything is back to normal. I'm now using BitDefender as my anti-virus application.

I hope this is of some use to someone.
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I'm aware of the bug. Wasn't sure how to fix it. But I just used work arounds like flipping between waveout and back to asio to make it work again,
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JD01 wrote: Sun May 07, 2017 9:03 am I'm aware of the bug. Wasn't sure how to fix it. But I just used work arounds like flipping between waveout and back to asio to make it work again,
Which AV are you using? I haven't checked whether Bitdefender free is ok yet, but uninstalling AVG definitely works.
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It's weird, isn't it? Perhaps it's the way the Focusrite drivers are written that's setting those AVs off? I've checked my system and it runs perfect with Bitdefender.

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Yeah. I dunno what causes it. It's really weird if I go to play a film or YouTube before thr drivers have sorted themselves out when I boot up. The sound comes out all mangled.
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I have an OLD AVG on my recording comp BUT everything taht goes onto it goes through current AVG before going onto a transport device. Glad I don't have to deal with that little problem. Thanks Bob.
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