Windows on ARM drivers for Controller/Standalone Controller devices

Engine DJ Hardware Standalone Controllers
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Windows on ARM is out now with incredible performance. Therefore native drivers for this architecture are mandatory to use controllers with software like Virtual DJ which is working in emulation mode but really smooth and with great performance.

Without drivers controllers are not usable with existing software. I assume like MacOS’s switch to ARM architecture windows will follow because of better performance with less power consumption.

Actually there is no common workaround which would help to use Denon controllers with Windows on ARM.

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Do Macs need drivers too?

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I sent a ticket a couple of months ago and the reply was that Denon drivers are not supported but “may” work.

Looks like in general the Snapdragon X laptops are a bit of a flop so maybe devs were holding off to see if they took off or not.

The reviews I read weren’t very positive and they’ve been heavily discounted.

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In my case the drivers could be installed but didn’t work. I tried the SC live 4 drivers. I don’t know what reviews you’ve read but I decided to buy a Surface Pro because of the great reviews here in Germany. Especially the ones from the publisher Heise who has really great experience in computer science and often made predictions that came true. I’m heavily impressed about the performance and power consumption and durability. I am sure that this is the Windows future. It really will take some time, I don’t believe x86 is dead, but it will die slowly. Therefore native drivers are needed.

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There are Mac drivers for ARM architecture. Only Windows drivers are missing because Windows on ARM is quite new whereas Apple did the swap long time ago.

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Don’t class compliant devices connect to Macs without a driver as they already embed them into the OS? I haven’t downloaded a driver for DJ gear for years.

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The same is true of class compliant devices on Windows.

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Some devices do however need additional support for screens etc. and that is where the issue is with emulation to the newer chips.

For example you can see the MCX8000 has a separate Mac driver as the “class compliant” part does not support all of the controller’s requirements.

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The audio device is showing class compliant audio 2.0 in windows device manager. But Virtual DJ is still demanding to reconnect the device and there is an exclamation mark in the device manager at a not recognized device.

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Yes that’s pretty much it. Drivers not compatible with Snapdragon.

Atomix will have VDJ fully supported soon but that doesn’t help if 3rd party drivers do not get updated.

Sadly it’s looking like another flop for Microsoft. At least Apple were ready to go fully with the emulation layer 100 percent on release. It’s not the first time this has happened.