NEVERMIND........


I have 12 inputs.....its confusing as all hell how they have it set up and what I have to select on the asio panel -- but I tested and re-tested...and there are indeed 12 separate channels capable of tracking and recording 12 seperate tracks at the same time.

Well it was a pain in the aZZ, but after messin with it on and off for 4 months and with the new driver update ...it does seem to do what it is suppose to do......

if any of you are having problems figuring out what mics line up with what inputs to get you the 12 seprate channels Pm me or catch me through email...basically the first four channels can not be broken up into left and right seprate TRACKS....you know... the good the ones with the power amps....could only be used for stereo input ...or mono.... THE LEFT AND RIGHT CHANELS COULD NOT BE INSERTED INTO ONE TRACK SEPERATE....BASIC OUTLINE BELOW

channels 4-8 could be used for either or and broken up into each left and right input into its own track for a total of 8 inputs there.....
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channels 1-4 = tracks 1-4 -- trying to break up the left and right inputs only pans things on the track left or right

channels 5-8...WILL ALLOW YOU TO break up the left and right inputs into seprate tracks for your other 8 tracks.... but you don't get the built in pre- amps....
if that doesnt make sense and you own one of these ...contact me.....

and the way they have it laid out on the input menu is just hard on the eyes and confusing..... (shakes head)

but hey -- IT FINALLY WORKS RIGHT!

Hey everyone, new here>>> but not to the MM16 problems. But it can work great when it does!!!

First off: Does anyone have the original drivers from when the units first came out that they could email me? I sent a pc in for repair and left the disk in <damnit, of course not getting it back...> The drivers from 2005 were the only ones I've ever gotten to work.

2. the fast weird warped playback issues, Ive only recently encountered them when using more than 4 tracks, I increased latency and also went back to using my pc's soundcard out for monitoring instead of the mm16 for monitoring (I believe that had more to do with it). I have not had a problem with it since and have gone as far as 12 tracks of playback all edited heavily with effects.

3. I updated to the latest driver package and behold!!! I am missing all the drivers, just have a controll panel. I have encountered this many times before and this time I have not found a workaround. I have followed all the steps to the letter, and my system is up to date. I have never got the downloaded drivers to ever work and have only been able to have a stable system off the cd.

___ Contacted alesis>>> DO they even use their own product??? And apparently according to them , their system is compatible with everything under the sun and they never have problems. Whatever.

Thank all of you for posting your thoughts on getting the MM to work. When it works , it works great!!!

My setup:
Laptop
XP home Sp2/dot net 1.1
Amd ath 64 2.8 ghz.
2 gig ram
1394 pci card
100 gig HD 7200 rpm (this was an upgrade which really helped my performance, i previously had a 4400 rpm HD)

Samplitude pro 8.0

(I have found this to be very stable for the multimix for 2 yrs now. I tried cakewalk/sonar/cubase to no avail. For those of you that may not be able to afford Samplitude pro, they make a low end version callled Magix music studio (about 30-40$ US) whisch isnt too bad at all but is lacking on channels in(I used it for 5yrs and loved it before upgrading) and has also been stable on my system, or if you look on ummmm- torrent anyone?)

Multimix >pc setup
firwire from mm>1394 pci card>Samplitude
drivers:
PLayback- conexant ac audio
Recording- MM channels in
use headphone channel from mm for can monitoring while playing (or substitute powered monitors in place of phones)
use headphone out of pc for playback monitoring (which can be routed into the mm as an analog signal or powered monitors instead of dig through the firewire cable)


When you give, You begin to live
~DJM

Entered in error. Sorry didn't notice this was 8 pages long until after I replied. I should know better than to get on these forums first thing in the a.m.

UncleMartinD28, I do have the original drivers, will see what I can do about mailing them. I have to find the disk first (shouldn't be hard), I'll look for it while the coffee is cooking.

ED,
Thanks so much!!! I'm saving theses for backups, and in case anyone else ends up needing them.

Once again, thanks!!

This forum was very helpful! I'm considering buying a multimix 12 so heres what I sum up

I may have driver install problems but If I use suggestion here 90 % chance it will eventually work!

Don't Call Alesis 's help line better info here

Patience It may work right out of the box but expect to frig with it!

When it and if works it will work great! ? I hope

Now the only question is do I want channel inserts? if so Phonic Helix FW alesis doesn't have them!

I think it sums it up have I missed anything?

Hi UnkleMartinD28,

Thanks for the info on the Alesis Multimix firewire with Sonar.

It worked for a while, now it keeps shutting my system down.

Could you email to me the old drivers.

I have a Multimix 16 Firewire.

Thanks

email address:ronaldbauers@sbcgloba.net

Im very interested on that multitrack recorder... i've read lots of forum and opinions...everyone has managed to get them to work proprely..

can someone please send me a record from the alexis multimix 16 channels with more than 1 channel recorded...(either separated tracks or everything together, just recorded at the same time)

send to nightgost@gmail.com the track/s or the links to listen.

Thank you

From what I understand about the way the MM works, your going to have to choose your external drive as the save drive from your software. Your not going to be able to write directly to the drive via the fw port on the MM. when you originally lay down a track, it is a temp file until you save it to a directory/file/folder on your pc. If your pc can handle 2 fw ports , one for the MM, the other for the external drive your speed is matched. If your writing to your external drive through a usb, keep in mind the slower transfer rate. I use a dedicated partition on my pc for recording and backup all files and also save the track to an external drive afterwards. you can delete space off your pc, or just move them to another drive to free up space.

There has been a recent rash of MM crashes in december, mine included on dec 6th. I have managed to get it to work on a daily basis with reinstalls, but something is up with their software corrupting, or the firmware corrupting- and inputs are disappearing. I'll repost info in next few days on the workaround. Best I can tell you at the moment is go to an old driver from 2005-06 and use the reinstall method above.

Funny, i just checked alesis, and lo and behold, the nov driver update has mysteriously disappeared and july is back up. Im going to post a link for the driver package that I find works for more than 24 hours on here.

Nevermind! That link was on page 1. After reading this topic I don't want an Alesis.

Hi there.

I have a MultiMix FW 8 mixer running firmware 2.0.

Previously I have had no problems, however since upgrading in whatever recording program I use it randomly stops recording sometime between 0 and 60 seconds in.

This happens to whatever channels I record.

It is happening on two machines, both of which run Vista Business, however I understand Alesis fully support Vista now?

The drivers and firmware are latest available and whatever I do I can’t seem to resolve this problem.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. After reading this entire thread I may go back to the older drivers but I'd rather not if the current July drivers are any better?

Thanks.

Thanks.

Is it possible to use the older drivers with the new firmware? Or can/do you have to roll back the firmware?

Which drivers did you use?

Thanks.

JCoster,

As far as I can tell, you are going to be limited to the last batch, maybe 2 of drivers. Those are the only ones I know that are vista compatible. I'm not sure, but you may be able to run the old drivers in backwards compatibility mode for vista-xp , though I'm not familiar with vista and if it is an option. Also, you said you are running vista business - that may be the source of your problem, the drivers are for vista, IMO not for vista business I would assume.

The auto shut off of your recoding process I have no clue on, could use some more details and what programs you are running for recording and any errors or glitching that occurs. Are the tracks even playing even though the recording process was stopped?
I found the last crash of MM drivers was due to a windows update (late nov) that somehow causes my software to freeze when I use the play/stop shortcut key (on mine it is the space bar) I can press it a few times, then my drivers corrupt and everything freezes. I'm back to only necessary updates for the alesis to run and thats it.

If I were you, I would take a blank drive and install xp on it and use it strictly for recording. You can choose to boot up with that drive as necessary and have a clean operating system to work off of. Also, when you are going to record, shut down all unnecessary processes. I'm running xp with 14 processes going in the task manager. Shut off your wireless internet if you have it. Ditto for the firewall and anything else that may want to run- and turn off the automatic updates- that has caused me problems numerous times.

I have found the multi-mix to be most stable when your running xp stripped down. Every time I crash the MM, it has been due to some windows update ad things going out of wack. I have it on its own drive and operating system and it does fairly well. Im just not impressed with windows when it comes to recording, I see a Macintosh in my near future

Older drivers (not vista compatible, so alesis says. If you try them, better back up your system and set a restore point!!) can be downloaded Click here and go to the cool link section.

Hope this helps

Updated the yousendit link for older working MM drivers on my site, click here go to the cool links section