Well this reminds me Presonus when they made the sample rate in Windows to automatically match the ASIO sample rate, without even mentioning it on the release notes, just “updated USB drivers to version x.x”.
Makes working with RX totally impossible and causes opened programs to crash or lose the connection every time we switch to a tab that is in a different sample rate. Contacted the support but they didn’t acknowledge it. Three updates later and they still did not revert to previous behavior, forcing us to use an anterior version.
I’m 100% sure this is intended by the company since it is easier for users that have a basic setup, but absolutely not when you’re doing complex routing between programs and work with different sample rates.
I’m saying that because Steinberg drivers have always been working that way (which I explain here in details), which may explain the trouble some people are experiencing.
But now, if they have decided to no longer make their drivers multi-client, that’s not just another step backwards, but a whole era. If I am right, then they will probably never revert it, unless it really is a bug, but I don’t think it is.