I've been looking at the Aardvark Direct Pro 24/96, but some driver issues are scaring me. Does anyone know if the latest batch of updates makes the card work as advertised in XP? Thanks.
I have the 24/96 running in win-2000 which I think is the same set of drivers as XP. I have problems, but I don't think it is an ark problem. I use n-track and it gives me fits at times, I don't believe there are any major problems with the new ark drivers.
Well I've had my Aark 24/96 for over a year.... took them what seemed forever to get the new drivers ready for XP. Now I have XP and use Sonar 2.0 I am now having a problem with the built in effects on the Aark interface.... they will only work if you lower the recording sample rate to 32K... which is unacceptable. I wrote them... they said this was a "known" issue. They will soon be posting a "patch" to fix this problem. I do think the card is very clean.. and solid... but the drivers and issues have been many. If I had it to do over again... I'd pick a different card myself.. but being the stubborn person I am.. I have stayed with this one to kinda see it through. So if you get one.. I wish you good luck and lots of patience.
I had the 24/96 until recently . I am now running a ProTools studio. I miss the Aardvark. It worked flawlessly for me under Win98. It recorded 4 tracks, live, for hours and my pent600 never cried. It was responsive and the sound was right on.
hi
I've been using aark 24/96 for two years and it's tha most importent peace of equipment in my home studio (exept for headphones sony mdr-7506). I used it under w98 lite - superb and a month ago I switched to w2k. At first I had some problems with playing just couple of tracks in cubase 5.1 but after installing service pack 2 this probliem disapperaed. you must remember one thing. Instal the system as Standard Pc. It's the most importnet issue you should be aware of - if you don't know what I am talking about try to find topicks about instaling w2k or xp.
now I can handle 40 tracks in 24 bit and 48khz flawleslly - in cubase 5.1 and the same in sx.
and I have just p3 733 with 256 of ram!
the drivers are ok- just can't wait for gsif support