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Do any of you use Live with a PreSonus Firesudio Mobile in Windows (Vista/Win7)?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNO3byybm9Y

It looks really nice but I'd like to known if they're good at making Windows ASIO drivers.
This would be for someone who has what I believe to be a regular TI Firewire chip in his Dell computer so it should be good. I know cheap firewire on some motherboards can cause problems.

I use the Presonus Firebox, basically the same thing really only nI believe it has more outs than the mobile.

The firewire chipset is really the key. I have been through 4 PC upgrades over the last 9 years since I have had it and it has worked perfectly with the integrated firewire on ALL... It does NOT, however, work with the mini firewire well on my notebook. It pops and skips quite a bit and even a PCI notebook TI Firewire card didn't work because it always shared IRQ with other system hardware... I ended up getting a cheaper USB soundcard for the notebook.

As far as desktop though, the firebox has worked well for me for over 9 years. I would have to say though that the best I can get on latency without a few breakups is 18ms so I know some others can get down to below 10 but honestly, I do not have issues at all with this.

What OS are you using it on now?

I like that PreSonus just have one driver package for all their stuff and I know that OpenLabs trusts them enough to use their interfaces.
I wish this guy was usig Win7-64bit but as long as the PreSonus doesn't mind 32bit Vista it should be good. I'm gonna have to take a look at his computer again to see exactly which Firewire chipset his motherboard uses.

jestermgee wrote:I use the Presonus Firebox, basically the same thing really only nI believe it has more outs than the mobile.

The firewire chipset is really the key. I have been through 4 PC upgrades over the last 9 years since I have had it and it has worked perfectly with the integrated firewire on ALL... It does NOT, however, work with the mini firewire well on my notebook. It pops and skips quite a bit and even a PCI notebook TI Firewire card didn't work because it always shared IRQ with other system hardware... I ended up getting a cheaper USB soundcard for the notebook.

As far as desktop though, the firebox has worked well for me for over 9 years. I would have to say though that the best I can get on latency without a few breakups is 18ms so I know some others can get down to below 10 but honestly, I do not have issues at all with this.

I have 2 separate operating systems for 2 different setups. OS1 is winxp 32bit used for Ableton and audio software only. OS2 is winxp 64bit used for video editing. 64bit to access more ram for large projects. On both operating systems the drivers act the same. I can only guess that they would be fine under vista/7 just as much.