daw or audio interface first?

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2011/07/27 11:40:56 (permalink)

daw or audio interface first?

Hello good people of the forum: I have decided to run either 8.5 pe or x1 pe on my laptop  so that i can do vocal recording at a really cool round house with a dome ceiling.. fun stuff.. anyway, i'm having some problems. the program installs fine, in fact i started with 8.5 with no problems at all. (using only 8.5 pe/ m-audio profire 610 / a good little keyboard controller / and a good mic. long story short i was looking for a live show of a particular duo and must have gone to a site i shouldn't have. probably got infected, ended up doing a complete system restore back the laptops original condition. now, i can install 8.5 fine, but cannot get the m-audio profire 610 drivers to load. no-one ever seems to visit or respond in m-audio forum so i'm hoping someone here can offer up adivce.
should i install X1 or 8.5 (not sure which yet i want to use) and then try to install profire drivers? or install profire drivers first? also, i have tryed using the latest profire drivers on they're website as well as the disc that came with the unit, niether seem to work. also another thought. should i be loading drivers when everything is hooked up or???
any help is appreciated.
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    Jim Roseberry
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    Re:daw or audio interface first? 2011/07/27 11:49:28 (permalink)
    Was the Profire ever installed/working properly with the laptop?
     
    The reason I ask...
    Most off-the-shelf laptops are not using a quality Texas Instruments chipset Firewire controller.
    If your laptop is using a Via or Jmicron chipset Firewire controller, the Profire might not even install... let alone work well.  Try switching the Firewire controller's driver to "Legacy" mode.  If that doesn't work, you could try an express-card TI chipset Firewire controller.  Otherwise, there's not much you can do... short of using a quality USB audio interface.

    Best Regards,

    Jim Roseberry
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    Re:daw or audio interface first? 2011/07/27 11:55:03 (permalink)
    i can install 8.5 fine, but cannot get the m-audio profire 610 drivers to load.



    Meaning the I/O ports do not appear on the Drivers tab under Options > Audio?


    I shouldn't matter in what order you install SONAR and the drivers. 


    Does the M-Audio show up in Windows Device Mangler? If it's there, and reported to be working properly, SONAR should show the drivers in the Drivers tab when you have either ASIO or WDM driver mode selected (ASIO is probalby preferred for M-Audio interfaces). If it isn't in Device Manager, something's wrong with the driver installation unrelated to whether SONAR is yet installed or not.








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    Re:daw or audio interface first? 2011/07/27 12:00:12 (permalink)
    yeah i did worked great but i do remember a few trys before getting the drivers to load right. RICOH OHCI compliant IEEE 1394 host controller? is that the fw card? also, how would i change to legacy mode? thanks for your help
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    Re:daw or audio interface first? 2011/07/27 16:44:24 (permalink)
    Control Panel>Device Manager>IEEE 1394 Bus Host Controllers and double click on the Ricoh entry to bring up its properties. 
    Go to the Drivers tab and choose Update driver. 
    Select the "Browse My Computer..." option and then select "Let Me Pick From A List..." 
    You'll then be presented with a list of drivers.  The one that ends with (Legacy) is the one you want to choose/load.
    Finish the process.
     
    If the Profire works with the Ricoh FW controller, you should now be able to load the driver.

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    Jim Roseberry
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