Vista compatable external soundcards - M-Audio pisses me OFF

mikadams · Post by **mikadams** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:25 am

I wish I had done a little more homework. I bought a new machine with a fast dual core processor and 4 gigs of ram and its like having a Ferrari that I cant drive because M-Audio hasnt released drivers that work with Audiophile USB. From the looks of things on there website, they aren't in any hurry either.
I really cant afford a new soundcard or a new copy of XP at the moment. Curious as to how others having similar problems have worked around it.

mikadams · Post by **mikadams** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:29 am

forgot to mention... Windows Vista pisses me off EVEN MORE!

forge · Post by **forge** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:34 am

Vista doesnt really piss me off, it's actually really grown on me

but M-Audio fill me full of rage

how they could still not have their drivers (even beta ones) ready by now is beyond me when the beta versions of Vista were available so long ago now

it's a joke

at the moment I'm just using ASIO4all

simpleton · Post by **simpleton** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 3:37 am

forge wrote:at the moment I'm just using ASIO4all

which are infinitely better than anything M-Audio will ever cook up so why despair?

forge · Post by **forge** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:42 am

simpleton wrote:
forge wrote:at the moment I'm just using ASIO4all
which are infinitely better than anything M-Audio will ever cook up so why despair?

Asio4 all is not better than my FW410 - not in my experience

I have to have quite high latency or I get clicks

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:44 am

forge wrote:
simpleton wrote:
forge wrote:at the moment I'm just using ASIO4all
which are infinitely better than anything M-Audio will ever cook up so why despair?
Asio4 all is not better than my FW410 - not in my experience

I have to have quite high latency or I get clicks

Are ALL the buffers in the ASIO4ALL GUI set to the same size? I had that problem until someone pointed this out to me, then I went from 30ms to 7ms with an Edirol UA101 USB.

forge · Post by **forge** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 5:37 am

Tone Deft wrote:
forge wrote:
simpleton wrote: which are infinitely better than anything M-Audio will ever cook up so why despair?
Asio4 all is not better than my FW410 - not in my experience

I have to have quite high latency or I get clicks
Are ALL the buffers in the ASIO4ALL GUI set to the same size? I had that problem until someone pointed this out to me, then I went from 30ms to 7ms with an Edirol UA101 USB.

??

I can only see delay compensation and buffer offset - what do you mean
(BTW I love their little joke with Einstein for advanced and GWB for simple)

shaneblyth · Post by **shaneblyth** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 12:14 pm

it's simple either partition your drive or erase Vista and put XP back on and no driver issues. Everyone knows you never ever buy a new OS or first version piece of hardware for that matter without really being ultra careful before hand checking everything is gonna work with what you have and then you just know you are going to get annoyed because something wont be right , it never ever is. Patience.. whats another 6 months to get the drivers and bugs sorted a bit better we had to wait 6 years! for he OS upgrade as pitiful an upgrade as it is.

forge · Post by **forge** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 1:14 pm

shaneblyth wrote:it's simple either partition your drive or erase Vista and put XP back on and no driver issues. Everyone knows you never ever buy a new OS or first version piece of hardware for that matter without really being ultra careful before hand checking everything is gonna work with what you have and then you just know you are going to get annoyed because something wont be right , it never ever is. Patience.. whats another 6 months to get the drivers and bugs sorted a bit better we had to wait 6 years! for he OS upgrade as pitiful an upgrade as it is.

well some of us get new laptops on insurance because the old one was damaged - and it just happens they dont even make XP drivers for this one

I can wait for M-audio - it's just pretty pathetic that they havent done it yet

teknobryan · Post by **teknobryan** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 1:53 pm

lesson learned: never buy M-Audio, ...sort of like behringer (except for the BCR, BCF thingies)

Stabba · Post by **Stabba** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 1:59 pm

All M-Audio Vista compatible drivers should be released by the end of the month except for the delta serie. They take their time because you know the drivers will be properly tested & stable. They dont want you to do the testing for them. Would you rather have a halfass written driver that gives you headach? i doubt it.

forge · Post by **forge** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 2:03 pm

Stabba wrote:All M-Audio Vista compatible drivers should be released by the end of the month except for the delta serie. They take their time because you know the drivers will be properly tested & stable. They dont want you to do the testing for them. Would you rather have a halfass written driver that gives you headach? i doubt it.

actually, they do provide beta versions, and yes, on the chance that they might actually work on my system I'd be prepared to beta them if the alternative is the on-board sound card