From Alesis website;
<<Cross-Platform FirmWare update for the MultiMix FireWire mixers (coming soon)>>

I wonder what they mean by "cross-platform"; mac and windows? and I also wondered how many of these glitches they can fix with driver updates until we have to install a firmware update. You would think that after being 6 months late on their initial target date to ship the product they were waiting until they worked all this out.

From other posts here they better hurry and get it figured out or they are going to have a lot of returns.

jim

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From Alesis website;
<<Cross-Platform FirmWare update for the MultiMix FireWire mixers (coming soon)>>

I wonder what they mean by "cross-platform"; mac and windows? and I also wondered how many of these glitches they can fix with driver updates until we have to install a firmware update. You would think that after being 6 months late on their initial target date to ship the product they were waiting until they worked all this out.

From other posts here they better hurry and get it figured out or they are going to have a lot of returns.

jim

I hope this is not a repeat of the ADAT Connect / PCR card. Alesis completely abandoned the folks that bought that card. The only drivers you can get are for Windows 98 and even those didn't work worth a flip. Some vendors just don't believe in going back and fixing things. Alesis and Presonus seem to be in that catagory.. after it ships they are on to other things and can't be bothered with folks that have problems.

Sorry to multi-post but just got this reply from Alesis, Justin is quick to respond.

<<Hi James,

Unfortunately we do not have a definite list compatible programs. Basically any program that can recognize firewire audio devices should work out well. I have not heard of any problems yet with Home Studio.

Sincerely,
Justin Baro

>>

I told him I would be happy to be the first user to report problems <grin>

jim

ORIGINAL: jimarter

Sorry to multi-post but just got this reply from Alesis, Justin is quick to respond.

<<Hi James,

Unfortunately we do not have a definite list compatible programs. Basically any program that can recognize firewire audio devices should work out well. I have not heard of any problems yet with Home Studio.

Sincerely,
Justin Baro

>>

I told him I would be happy to be the first user to report problems <grin>

jim

Yeah.. the response I got from Presonus on the Firepod was that "nobody else is complaining.. you must be doing something wrong".

Hey frank what was your issue with the Firepod ?

I hope this is not a repeat of the ADAT Connect / PCR card. Alesis completely abandoned the folks that bought that card. The only drivers you can get are for Windows 98 and even those didn't work worth a flip. Some vendors just don't believe in going back and fixing things. Alesis and Presonus seem to be in that catagory.. after it ships they are on to other things and can't be bothered with folks that have problems.

This is not a good way to business, I hope that there has been a change in thinking at Alesis.

Myucka, Jim what chipset are you useing for your firewire. My laptop has a T.I. on it.

randy

ORIGINAL: randy

Myucka, Jim what chipset are you useing for your firewire. My laptop has a T.I. on it.

randy

I have a TI firewire chip also.

My (Toshiba) laptop also has an imbedded soundMAX card that must not be capable of true 16 bit sound, it must emulate it with software or something, because I keep having Sonar (HS) tell me I have a driver that is in use or is not compatible and it disables it.

But the laptop does "see" the Multimix driver and I have been able to assign the inputs to channels in Sonar and record on them, but its a terrible clicky sound with playback speed problems. Can't get the Multimix "control panel" or whatever it is to run so I can change settings. Hope Alesis updates the driver again soon. The drivers don't seem to "stick" very well either.

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Hey frank what was your issue with the Firepod ?

Two things. 1. It doesn't switch sample rates with Sonar like other sound cards do. You have to set it and the default for Sonar BEFORE you start Sonar. It's a real pain unless you work at one sample rate all the time. 2. It dose not have a software mixing like most other interfaces do now.. even their own Firebox has a software mixer for zero latency monitoring but not the Firepod. Your only way to monitor is with the one mix knob and that is only good if you record one thing at a time.

There are new drivers out after over a year and they didn't fix anything, in fact some folks had to revert back to the old one because of performance problems. Just like the Firestation they can't seem to save it.. it's just not going to get fixed now.

Randy: Basically when I was recording, I got my first track down just fine. I went to record a second track but screwed it up. I deleted and tried again and for some reason the mixer no longer "saw" my signal. At that point, every channel of the mixer is dead to the computer. Also, if I had my mixer as the default sound output, I lost all sound. As it was, I had my Sound Blaster as the sound output, (to my mixer's Line Ins) I still got no sound through the mixer. This happens if the mixer is input and output sound sources for my computer or not.

I also found that my bluescreen crash was due to my US122. New drivers didn't help, so I need a new (cheap) midi interface. I want the ASIO drivers because I found them to be crystal clear with no latency...they sounded great!!

I'm not sure what chipset my firewire card uses. I'm not good with hardware as such, but my Device Manager has my card listed as OHCI compliant. Not sure if that helps.

Hi Myucka, I use the control room/headphone out with the 2 track button pushed down to monitor with. Then the headphone/control room knob to control the level of the signal.

The input and output is set to the multimix.
Why use the Sound Blaster as the output for the mixers line in, is it to record midi? If so
could you use Sonar to produce the midi?

As of right now Alesis, (until a driver update) said to turn the computer on and let it boot up completly. Then turn the power on to the multimix, by doing this I have access to the multimix control panel and sonar runs fine. Hope this helps. Post how things turn out.

randy