Anyone tried the new Alesis Firewire drivers?

[hulapluto]

I hope they'll fix the never ending problems, but i'm not holding my breath... also not crazy about dealing with xp SP2's firewire issues now...

[Bennett]

I've tried the latest drivers for my MultiMix 12 FireWire, the control panel looks better, but I ended up going back to an older one with which I get lower latency. So personally I don't think the new driver is better. My issue was never with the driver anyway, it was with my FireWire chipset.

[hulapluto]

What chipset are you running? My firewire is the TI (texas instruments) chipset, and all i've had is drop outs and stutters lately... And I use reaper which i'm sure is low overhead, resource wise.

Which version of the alesis driver do you consider to be stable with your set up?

If I had money I would ditch this piece shit tomorrow... I've fought with this thing for 3 years now...

[hulapluto]

Well, I thought I would let people know, that at least for my setup, they seem to work great! I'm reserving judgement completely, but I haven't had them stutter or chop at all, running 8-14 tracks simultaneously without a hiccup yet.

I also downgraded the sp2 firewire drivers to the unfucked up sp1 driver. via this wonderful site if anyone's interested: http://www.xpfree.org/firewire_reversion_details.htm

yea! (for now)

[Washburn100]

I tried the new drivers with my Mastercontrol, but had problems. I couldn't change the sampling rate. It would just default to 48kHZ so I went back to the old drivers(3335) and it works fine again.