No USB audio offerings from M-Audio anymore?

I was checking out Cakewalks list of recommendations for audio cards to see if it has been updated recently.

I clicked on the the M-Audio link and went to their web site and there are no USB audio cards available anymore. There is only Firewire and PCIe.

M-Audio Link.

I thought that was kind of odd.

http://www.avid.com/US/products/family/fast-track

Yeah the C400 and C800 are on the Avid website now. But they still say M-Audio on them. They're just over a year old, came out toward the end of 2011 I think. 

Bub


Wow! I also just found out that you can't get drivers for any USB devices on M-Audio's web site anymore. You have to go to Avid's site, and they have old drivers! That's great news! Now we can get the older drivers that supported 64 sample buffers.

What makes you say that? The C400 driver is available on the M-Audio website here:


http://www.m-audio.com/in...ort.drivers&f=1200


I notice on the Avid site they have two versions of the driver, 1.0.6 and 1.0.7. Are you saying that the older one supports 64 samples? If so I'm not sure whether it's worth downloading, if the newer one is more stable. 

Rain

Did they stop supporting small buffers at some point? That doesn't make a lot of sense. It goes down to 32 samples on Mac.

They did on the Fast Track Ultra, I don't know about other models though. It went down to 64 samples. Their official word on it ... "High Performance Mode removed because it caused system freezing, crashing, and instability."

What's really crappy about that is, they had a Beta driver in the works that supported it. They abruptly stopped the Beta program and removed the link to the driver. I had it but deleted it by accident.

Rain

My bad, partially - that's using the native Mac core audio driver. I never bothered to download the M-Audio drivers since the interface was detected immediately and worked "plug and play" IIRC.

That's cool!

Jim Roseberry is a fan of the Fast Track Ultra. I remember he was disappointed when he found out they discontinued 64 Sample support. I seem to remember reading a thread about it upstairs.

Too bad they don't make that Beta driver available. It was more stable than the final release one they have up there now. I never had one BSOD when I used that driver, even set at 64 samples. It was a crappy thing to do to their customers.

I just found the link on their forum for the last beta driver that supported 64 samples, I logged in, but the link is dead.

Damn it.

sharke

Bub

Wow! I also just found out that you can't get drivers for any USB devices on M-Audio's web site anymore. You have to go to Avid's site, and they have old drivers! That's great news! Now we can get the older drivers that supported 64 sample buffers.

What makes you say that? The C400 driver is available on the M-Audio website here:

http://www.m-audio.com/in...ort.drivers&f=1200

I notice on the Avid site they have two versions of the driver, 1.0.6 and 1.0.7. Are you saying that the older one supports 64 samples? If so I'm not sure whether it's worth downloading, if the newer one is more stable.

I was referring to Audio USB devices, but I see now that I'm wrong on that too. There is some drivers there, but none for any of the Fast Track line.

I'm not sure how you found that C400 driver. When I go to their driver page, there is nothing there for anything with the Fast Track name.

Which driver did ya go with Bub?

I just reloaded everything and forget which version I went with but I know the last and the one for the High Performance Modes both crashed my machine.

Which ever I went with its working great at this time

digi2ns

Which driver did ya go with Bub?

I just reloaded everything and forget which version I went with but I know the last and the one for the High Performance Modes both crashed my machine.

Which ever I went with its working great at this time

The last official driver is 6.0.8. It's working ok for me too, but the latency is driving me crazy. The Beta driver was 6.0.2.

You couldn't get the Beta driver unless you specifically signed up on their forum in the Beta section. It's gone now ... if you do a search, you'll find a link, but when you log in, it's dead.

I had absolutely 'zero' problems with it and I was certain it was going to be released as a final driver, but it never was. I could get 1.2ms RTL with my projects set to 96kHz and not a bit of trouble.

I went digging around on my 500GB backup drive after I found the actual file name on their forum last night and discovered I in fact did have the Beta driver on my backup drive after all.

I put it on Box.net. If you want to try it, here it is.

NOTE: This Beta driver is for the initial release of Win 7 64bit. I don't know if it will work if you have SP1 for Windows 7 installed.

It's a real pain in the butt to go backwards in driver versions for the FTU. You'll have to do a full uninstall and go in to your system registry and remove everything with the word M-Audio in it IIRC.

Yup checked it,

6.08 was crashing it so I went with the 5.10 driver.

Gonna give your 6.02 a try tonight or tomorrow

Thanks Bub!!!