AKAI Professional - EIE (16 bit) Problem with audio

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Hello fellow musicians and recording enthusiasts,
I have this annoying problem with my interface from AKAI. It's the EIE (16 bit, so not the pro-version). It seems like it's connected, and I CAN perfectly see it on my PC (Windows 7), allthough there is a tiny issue, there is no sound coming into the pc from the interface itself, I have a pair of studio headsets plugged into my headphone-out, on the device, and I can hear whatever I do, if it's singing in the microphone or playing the guitar, the VU-meters is also picking up, but nothing can I do on the PC, I can hear stuff from my PC in the headphones aswell (sounds from the computer) just as well as if they were plugged in directly. I'm currently using Pro Tools 10, and I've tried everything I can think of to make it work, without any luck though (I can also see the EIE in the audio settings in my DAW). I can also choose my EIE as the audio source, but there's just no sound but the sound of silence. I do remembered to aim the track for recording, enable recording and when I press play afterwards it stops for two or three seconds and hits stop automatically (probably due to the lack of source) I'm not a professional mastermind, but I shure ain't an amateur either, I have a few years of experince with recording and even more with songwriting, so after the upgrade of interface, I never assumed to run into this kind of problem. Please help me back on the track, recording. Have a nice day.

Best regards,
Smithy JR.
 
Hmmm so it isn't able to record anything, but still plays pc stuff. Interesting. So are you up to date regarding drivers? I've never used Pro Tools so I can't help regarding settings but something sounds like it might be off in your connection settings.
 
The EIE I/O (16 bit version) does not have a dedicated audio driver, it will however work for basic windows audio tasks using a generic windows audio driver, mine was limited to 2x2 I/O when used this way.

I downloaded and installed the most recent version of the "ASIO for all" driver, this allows all 4 inputs and all 4 outputs of the EIE to be available to my DAW software.

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that pro tools will only work with 3rd party audio interfaces using an ASIO driver.
 
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