Windows 7 64 and Yamaha SW1000XG

I'm putting this post in both soft, and hardware as it belongs in both.

Just wondering if anyone is running a Yamaha SW1000XG on any new (ish) systems running windows 7 64 bit?
I managed to install the most recent drivers on my windows 7 machine without any error messages but they were listed as, *not recognised" in the device manager.
I was planning on using it for the midi and having it for my windows default audio sounds as it was in my last machine.

Some folks may laugh and although midi sounds are never the most desirable, the SW1000XG still has some better sounds than sampletank, dimension pro and others and uses no cpu and is just quicker so if I can get it working it's always going to be worth having.

I heard somewhere that the problem wasn't with windows 7 but with the chipsets on the new boards.
Anyone verify this? I guess you'd have to be running windows 7 on an older board to jbow.
Cheers
Steve

I just read the guy on the SW1k forums post again. he claims to have got it working but on second reading I noticed he didn't say whether it was on 64 or 32 bit so I'm guessing it must have been on 32 bit.
Yamaha never wrote drivers for 64 bit. There was a suggestion of running the "windows xp environment" that you can run from within windows 7 but I don't think it runs at hardware driver level, only program level also it's not avaliable for home premium users which I am.
Steve

I run an sw1000 under vista..

but the way I work it... have an 1010LT , and the sw1000 goes into that, and I only use the sw1000 MIDI part of the driver.. NOT the audio / asio driver..

not tried in 64 bit, but you only wanna use the sw1000 SOLELY as a midi card. the audio is seperate and you'll still get the midi out.. and I just feed that into another audio card (in my case the LT)


I recently got an MU128 (and fitted 2 cards to it) , I'd been looking for an mu-100r for YEARS.

the other big issue is the board voltage, a lot of newer boards won't support it.. IRC the sw1000 runs at 5 volts and newer pci is 3.3 volts.

3dmus
How do rate konact 4? I was toying with the idea of it but I really would like to try before I buy at that price. I would imagine the sounds (orchesral in particular) would be far superior to the SW1000XG
I would be a first time buyer of contact so I think it's around £350 new?
Steve