Zoom H4N Pro Audio Interface Issues

[tsfrance]

Hello everyone. I have a H4N Pro that I use as a audio interface to record into my DAW but I don't record too often and sometimes I will record in the Zoom and then just move the files over but today I wanted to use it as a audio interface. It shows up in my DAW and it lets me choose it but when I try to arm it I get a message saying it can not be used. This is on a Windows 11 machine. The funny thing is that as a output device it works fine but as a interface to record, my DAW just wont let me use it. I have even tried 2 other DAWS with the same type of message. I have been through every windows setting in audio that I could find and nothing helps. I even pulled out a half dead old windows 10 machine and with the same DAW it worked fine there.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

 

[tsfrance]

So after a ton of time and watching videos which did not help I finally fixed it on my own by a fluke. Going through all my settings in my daw it led me to this windows settings which i had not seen yet.



One of the items there that you can't see now because I deleted it was spotify. I deleted spotify from my machine and everything went back to normal. I had no idea I even had spotify on my machine but it was doing something to the recording process.

Anyway, maybe it might help someone else.

 

[TalismanRich]

Don't you hate it when MS installs crap with the OS that you don't need? Like all the XBox game bar. I don't have anything Xbox, don't need any of it on my computer. VR headgear software? Nuke it!

If I want to install LibreOffice, or the Rightmark Audio Analyzer, it darn well better do it. Stop trying to protect me from myself! After fooling with computers for almost 50 years, I might actually know a bit about what I'm doing!