No output through built-in speakers

[orpheus_gc]

Hello

I've got Pro Tools on Windows and, when I unplug the audio interface (Behringer UMC202HD), I can't get the sound to come out of the built-in speakers. The only options for playback engine are Realtek ASIO (doesn't work) and ASIO4ALL. My I/O only present the interface as options.
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong / can anyone help me please? Thanks :)

[sw rec]

It won’t do that by default…you have to ASSIGN a playback engine. Just unplugging the interface (which you shouldn’t have to do anyway) won’t make it automatically switch. You have to go to “setup” and manually change the playback device.

[Darryl Ramm]

Simple answer is don’t do this.

Pro Tools really requires a Audio interface with an ASIO driver.

ASIO4ALL is a wrapper around Windows sound devices that makes them look like ASIO devices, it is often problematic. You may be able to configure ASIO4ALL to use the PCs internal sound card… but that also has the additional problem of now sharing an audio device between Pro Tools and Windows and maybe other apps, and that can have its own problems.

And sadly I suspect the reason you have ASIO4ALL installed is it’s needed for your Behringer interface that itself does not support ASIO. I would never recommend those on Windows because of that, but if it is working well for you then great.

[albee1952]

The Behringer has its own Windows ASIO driver(and I would always use that if possible). If you must run PT without the Behringer, try Right-click on the Pro Tools icon and select to run with wasap(I think this is how its spelled)i. ASIO4ALL is really a band-aid and can cause as many problems as it solves(my opinion)

[Darryl Ramm]

Uh oh good Dave correction, I had to go check, the Behringer UMC202HD does indeed come with an ASIO driver. Some of their low-end interfaces only packaged ASIO4ALL and did not include an actual ASIO driver.

[albee1952]

Originally Posted by Darryl Ramm

Uh oh good Dave correction, I had to go check, the Behringer UMC202HD does indeed come with an ASIO driver. Some of their low-end interfaces only packaged ASIO4ALL and did not include an actual ASIO driver.

Hmmm, I was not aware of that so a good call. Their small interfaces sound very good. My only complaint was the output level(to monitors) was really low compared to several other interfaces