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.

I think Avid kept the USB audio interfaces when they let go of M-Audio last summer.

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

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.

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. 

Rain

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

Cool!

I hope this means there's better support.

I also just found out that there's a newer driver for my Fast Track Ultra. You can't even get drivers on M-Audio's site anymore.  <--- I'm mistaken on this. There is no new driver.

This must have just happened recently because I remember checking M-Audio's site not all that long ago for updated drivers and it only offered an old one. Now you can't even get one.

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. 

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.

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.

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.