I just want to chime in here with some info regarding the legacy M-Audio Firewire 410. I originally purchased it to use with a laptop, but since then, it has found a home on my desktop DAW :-)
I do not have info on any other M-Audio products, but I have run across this thread on the M-Audio Community as I was researching the state of drivers for this particular legacy device. I am running the latest released drivers for Win 7, but there are reports in this thread that the Win 7 driver actually also works on Win 8 and Win 10.
>>> community_dot_m-audio_dot_com/m-audio/topics/m_audio_firewire_410_windows_8_support
Here is my humble opinion about the rush to upgrade to Windows 10, from somebody who has been building computers for 15 years.
I just don't understand the rush. Windows 7 works well. It will be supported until 2020.
Windows 8 works well, but I do understand that some folks cannot stand the UI. OK, but why would you want to risk the stability of your working Sonar rig to have the latest and greatest OS? An OS is only as good as the applications & drivers that run with it! Give the hardware vendors and driver developers time to catch up!
You have a full year to grab the free version of Windows 10, so nobody is making you do this right now!
Rant off... Hope this info is useful to anybody still using the M-Audio Firewire 410 :-)
John