Win7/64 or WinXP + Fireface 400 hows it working for you?

[Khazul]

Thinking of getting one and have one on loan of a mate, but I'm not finding it to be the most reliable thing on the planet (lots of noisey crashes) with either WinXP+Sp3 or Win7/64 - of course it could just that it just doesnt play nicely with live 8.1.x on either OS

Anyone else using this audio interface with Live 8 on windows? How is it working out for you? Have you had to completely strip your PC down to make the thing work relaibly?

My mate runs his on a macbook and its been fine since he got it.

[maxforlive]

On a PC laptop, make sure you have TI chipset

[chris vine]

OK with me Win XP SP3 - using a PCMCIA FW card (NOT TI). The FF400 does hang though, WHEN (i had written if) Live 8 crashes, and I have to reboot it. Am not in a hurry to move to Win 7 after reading RME forum members having probs with it.

[Khazul]

Yes using an onboard TI chipset.

You mention live crashing - this is part of the trouble - I cant actually tell wheher it is Live that is being unstable or whether it the audio interface, so perhpas I may be being a bit unfair to RME. Even running live 8.1.3 / 8.1.4 or 8.1.5b1 with the Audio Kontrol 1 isnt stable since adding the RME drivers - of course cant tell if the AK1 has been destabilized by installed the RME drivers, or whether Live has started playing up since trying to load an old track that it couldnt load. And part of the problem here was I first thought it was the RME driver that were causing a crash, then it turned out Live just hated on old set and would crash regardless of audio interface and OS, but now sets which is normally stable die after 10-20 minutes.

What I do know (which is what really turns me off RME) is when the FF400 crashes - it crashes very loudly - risky to ears and monitors etc. I prefer something that crashes quietly if it has to crash at all. Perhaps time to reinstall Cubase 4 and having a long play with Reason and Record again to find out if they at least work reliably being as I cant trust Live at the moment.

Anyway - anyone else using RME FF400 with a PC (WinXP and/or Win7/64) and Live 8.1.x and finding it ok or not ok?

BTW - I actually find the FF400 *more* relaibale on Win7/64 than on XP+SP3 (lots of BSODs on XP and need to power off the FF400 to quieten it and recover) which seems to be completely the opposite to most people (perfectly clean newly installed machine too)

[chris vine]

Yes, I would check the FF400 with another app. In general I do find the RME is a reliable and a solid piece of kit - I used to have an M Audio interface and that really sucked in terms of stability of FW connection etc, I had to reboot the PC onstage once. Arrgh.

Anyway I have only had the FF400 hang with a Live 8 crash, FWIW.

[B-S]

Using my FF400 on WinXP3 desktop, and Win7 Home Premium x64 laptop, Live 7.0.15.
It crashes time to time, but as mentioned in previous posts, hard to say what causes the crash. RME support seems to be pretty good. They are tryi ng to solve problems and working releasing drivers time to time. Fair play. Quality of the unit and also sound quality is rocksolid, i dont know any lowlights...

[importedearthman]

When I went looking for an audio interface this was one of the considerations. I found the number one problem people had was the interaction of the firewire chipset itself. Texas Instruments was the way to go. Otherwise you ARE GOING TO HAVE problems.

I have no first hand experience but I research the subject to DEATH before I purchase anything and that was the #1 cause of the majority of problems.

and... I'm STILL looking for the perfect interface.

[chris vine]

So what is so different about the TI chipset anyway????????

[dna598]

I use echo audiofire12. I tried Win7x64 and it did not feel solid. Now back to xp its much better. No bsod's. No performance difference.

[Ajbbklyn]

Using FF400 with Windows 7 x64 Pro i7 920 2.66gHz. The motherboard is an ASUS P6T SE which uses a Via chipset for the firewire. Everything has worked flawlessly for almost a year. Running Live 8.0.8 Suite.

[nopattern]

im running motu ultralite mk3 on windows xp with a SIIG firewire pci-e card. flawless performance, the extra $60 for the SIIG card was well worth it

[lapieuvre]

FF800, win 7 pro 64 bits, Asus P5Q-E motherboard.

Works fine, there are new FF400/800 drivers BTW...