I'm not shure if NI approves this post in their community forums (still under moderation), so i repost it here:
Hey Guys here's the SOLUTION:
I asked NI support if they could me provide the plain driver files, without installer. After 2 weeks they replied only "product discontinued blabla...".
Wtf?! I don't want them to write new driver, only the plain package. The Win7x64 driver are working with Win10, the installer is the problem.
Very bad support!
So i unpacked & reversed their setup. And here we go:
First DISCONNECT your ak1.
Download the files from here (Updated 2017):
DOWNLOAD-LINK-REMOVED - NO MORE SUPPORT FOR NI-DRIVER MODS....
Extract them to your "\Program Files\" folder.
If you messed up your system with the f###ing ni-installer, uninstall the sh#t before and get rid of the driver files via "pnputil"
Quote:
open command line
pnputil -e > my-driver-list.txt
search in the text-file for the NI drivers and look what oemXX.inf number they have
delete them with:
pnputil -d oemXX.inf
pnputil -d oemXY.inf
...
Then navigate to your "\Program Files\Native Instruments\Audio Kontrol 1 Driver\Helper" folder
open command line and install the WDM-Driver via "DPInst /F /PATH ..\inf"
Confirm the dialogbox.
Now you can plug-in your ak1, Windows now recognize it and it should work via WDM.
When you open "ak1cpl.exe" in the "\Program Files\Native Instruments\Audio Kontrol 1 Driver\" folder, the control-panel should also recognize your ak1.
To get the asio driver working you need to add some entries in the windows registry:
In case you have troubles: in the folder on the gdrive is also a html-file with all reg-entries from the installer.[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ASIO]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ASIO\Audio Kontrol 1]
"CLSID"="{694C0055-8282-44CF-BEE6-E8682953E2AD}"
"Description"="Audio Kontrol 1"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{694C0055-8282-44CF-BEE6-E8682953E2AD}]
@="Audio Kontrol 1"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{694C0055-8282-44CF-BEE6-E8682953E2AD}\InprocServer32]
@="c:\\program files\\native instruments\\audio kontrol 1 driver\\asio\\ak1asio64.dll"
"ThreadingModel"="Apartment"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{694C0055-8282-44CF-BEE6-E8682953E2AD}]
@="Audio Kontrol 1"
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{694C0055-8282-44CF-BEE6-E8682953E2AD}\InprocServer32]
@="c:\\program files\\native instruments\\audio kontrol 1 driver\\asio\\ak1asio32.dll"
"ThreadingModel"="Apartment"
Bazinga!
I tested this workaround on my audio-workstation (Win10x64 Treshold2 - messed up with different attempts to get NI's wonderful installer running), on my gaming rig (Win10x64 Prof Treshold1), my dell xps 13 (Win10x64 Home Treshold 2) and a clean Win10x64 vbox installation.
Only on my audio-workstation bitwig studio has problems with the asio drivers. (I'm currently reverse-engineer the asio-drivers to fix this, maybe i could squeeze a little bit more power out of this old brothers...).
To increase performance, try the "Win10 WASAPI" or "Asio4All" driver. Booth works tighter for me than the original asio-drivers.
If NI has no objections, i could repack all and fix their crappy installer.
THANK YOU NATIVE INSTRUMENTS FOR YOUR GREAT SUPPORT.
cheers
edit:
DOWNLOAD-LINK-REMOVED - NO MORE SUPPORT FOR NI-DRIVER MODS....