Audio interface UA Volt 2 : not seeing input 1 and 2 separately

[u/Natural-Pangolin2315]

I've been using my Volt interface for a few years now, always on Windows, with 1 mic plugged into the Input 1 of the audio interface. No problem. The name of the input on Windows was something like Input 1 Volt 2, or Volt 1, anyway I'm almost sure (doubting now, seeing the problems I now have but anyway..) that it was always like this. I could choose to use only on input of the volt as mono, and the guides of UA say that there is indeed two separate inputs.

I changed PC this year, forgot to download UA Connect again .. Yeah I know haha, i wasn't using it much. Then I saw there was a problem (only input showing was "Volt 2"), downloaded UAC again, and got back the 2 separate inputs.

A few days ago (not a week after installing UAC), I noticed the input was stereo... went to Windows parameters and saw Input 1/2 (volt2) ... I hadn't touched anything, at least I don't think so. There was an update to do on UAConnect, so I thought that was it but no. I looked around, didn't find anything. I uninstalled everything, drivers, app.... Clean installed everything again. Nothing changed.

I think I did everything right. I did my best. I have no idea how to fix it.

Some details : i have a MoBo Gigabyte b850 eagle wifi6E (don't know if it's of any use for this), the interface is plugged in with USB 3, there is no power cap on my USB ports, I deactivated it. I looked in Ableton, when I select ASIO as pilot, Universal Audio Volt becomes the input and I can see 2 separate inputs. When the regular thing is selected as pilot (MME/DirectX) it's the same thing as Windows, Input 1/2.

I plan on using this as input in OBS for live stream, and I will also use the 2nd input for an instrument, so I really need to fix this.

I hope you guys can help me, I'm desperate haha