FOCUSRITE SAPPHIRE PRO 40

Has anybody upgraded to the 2.2 drivers? I did and Sonar had one of it's nasty moments. (Sonar not responding) The old white/grey screen, where Sonar thinks somebody has Cakewalked over it's grave. "So this is Sonar X1", I thought. Then I tried 8. 5.3 and the same deal.
I went back to version 2. 0 drivers and all the alarm bells stopped. Tranquility in the Morrison household has now been restored.
Running Windows 7 Ultimate 64. 8 gig of unganged ram,  AMD Quad core 3200x4.

Saffire Mix Control 2.2
-Added support for Saffire Pro 14
-Updated driver to version 3.5.3
-Resolved some rare blue-screens which could occur in Windows 7
-Improved driver performance in Windows 7
-Resolved issue where MIDI driver would not load when using Mac OS X in specific languages.

It probably does work on most machines, but not mine. Drivers are funny creatures. If they get a bee under their bonnet, they won't work.

Thanks Fireberd, I'll give it a go, however the 2.0 drivers are working fine, so maybe I'll have to mull it over a tad.

fireberd


On the Focusrite downloads for the Saffire Pro 40 it states that with Win 7 64 bit you need to set the Firewire controller driver to "Legacy Drivers".  That may be an issue with your particular Firewire controller or motherboard.  On my Intel Motherboard with T.I. Firewire chipset, I'm using the latest Intel driver and I'm not having a problem.

Try the Legacy Firewire Driver (there's instructions on the Focusrite downloads on how to change to the Legacy Driver) and see if that makes a difference.

Well Fire, I did look at the legay drivers and they are up to date. I thought I'd give the 2.2 mix control another whirl and now it seems OK touch wood. 

Matt:

The SP40 has a bunch of routing options and when you couple that with Sonar's flexible internal routing things can get a bit confusing at first.  There are tons of things I'd add to the method below - here is a quick start;

I'm not an X1 user, 8.5.3 here, but I use the SP40 with many other DAW software programs including Sonar the the process is somewhat the same.

#1 Setup a 'master bus' is your Sonar project that your route all of your tracks to - or if you submix to stems (e.g. guitars, drums, keys, vox, bu vox) then route those stems to your master bus.  Call your master bus something like 'Master'

#2 Make sure the Output of the Master Bus is going to the first pair of analog outputs on your SP40.

#3 Goto the MixControl SP40 software interface and click on the first tab (top left of interface) on the far right is the main output of that mixes output - immediately to the left of the faders for the main out is a fader pair that should say DAW1 and DAW2 as the input sources for that fader pair - essentially that is routed from your Master bus in Sonar.  

#4 Now look lower in the Mix Control interface and you'll see the small grey buttons that represent the physical outputs of the SP40.  The labels on the buttons indicate the input source and the white text to the right of the button indicates the physical output on the device.  Notice that the second row of buttons has little headphone graphics 'silk screened' on the panel.  The left two buttons are routed to the left physical headphone jack on the front panel of the SP40 and the right two buttons are routed to the right physical jack.

#5 Click on the first button in the second row and change it's input source to the name of your tabbed mixer as the name appears in the top left of the interface - obviously select the Left channel for the first button and the right channel for the second button.

Now any signal passing out of the Master bus in Sonar will route to the DAW1 and DAW2 faders on the right side of that the first mix tab and then route to the main fader in that tab and ultimately to both your analog 1 and analog 2 physical outputs AND your headphones.

I will stop at this point since there are countless variations both on the Sonar side for Cue mixes and on the MixControl side for multiple outputs and sends with zero latency monitoring.  Give this much a try

Best

-D

Matt, check your PM.  I have my Mix Control configuration file that I can send to you.

Jack

firebird,
I hate to ask but, can you shoot me your mix control config? I am running X1 with pro 40. I cannot get this to work. I had it working for playback then IM not sure what I did. 
1. Was trying to set up for mixing. I used preset "zero latency" and i could here my project playing. Once I tried to record a track I am not sure what I did but, now I cant get anything to play back. 
2. When is tried recording a track I could see my signal in Mix Control but, in Sonar (with track armed), there was no level. I had the proper inputs as well.


Don M,
Did you ever get those screen captures? I could sure use the help.

Thanks A Bunch

This is an old thread, I suggest creating a new one.