m-audio vista drivers

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Does anyone know if m-audio will release vista drivers for the 2496 card?

Rut
 
I'm sure they will, but who knows when. Did you check their website?

Is there any specific reason you're upgrading to Vista? Just curious...
 
I just like staying ahead of the curve :) I upgraded in late Nov when the final version became available for developers. M-audio doesn't even offer beta drivers for Vista. Kind of disappointing considering it has been available for testing for a long time.

Rut
 
Well I'm sure they will release one for Vista soon since so many people (not me) will be switching over to Vista.

It's also important to note that a lot of recording software isn't Vista Ready yet either.
 
Honestly, there's not that many people that switched over since they released. Peoples told me that stores were almost empty when it released. Personally I wouldn't switch until they come out with like SP1 or something. I got a free upgrade for my laptop, but I ain't using it just yet.
 
rutledj said:
I just like staying ahead of the curve :) I upgraded in late Nov when the final version became available for developers. M-audio doesn't even offer beta drivers for Vista. Kind of disappointing considering it has been available for testing for a long time.

Rut
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What curve would that be? The pretty UI that eats up more resources curve?

It can't be gaming or A/V work because you would be slowing an existing system down by simply updating the OS and not upgrading the hardware as well.
 
I heard Vista requires 1GB RAM. It takes up more resources. XP is just as, if not more, stable. I see no reason at all to upgrade.
 
I haven't done too much reading up on Vista. Mostly because I'm not interested in it. But does anyone know, are there actually any functional benefits to it, or it is just a pretty UI (read: uneccessarily overcomplicated and resource intensive UI, therefore meaning ugly by default).
 
what I have heard is that Vista is geared BIG time for pro audio this time around. It has the feature of being able to priortize tasks...meaning that you don't have to go shut off all those other programs, even tweak the computer for audio. It will put audio first in sacrifice of graphics, etc... meaning it will "eliminate" audio stuttering...stuff like that. Yeah, supposedly you'll want new hardware...probably the computer, but it is supposed to be as big a jump over xp...as xp was over win98.

also, stuff like translucent windows, so you can see what's happening in windows opened "underneath" what you are doing (like plugin tweaks effecting the audio).

there seems to be more, but like I said, I have read that this time they listened to what the audio people want. Supposedly, one of the developers is a avid musician himself, as are most of the other people involved, so audio apparently is no stranger to them. I'll be looking hard, for sure at this new OS.
 
danny.guitar said:
I heard Vista requires 1GB RAM. It takes up more resources. XP is just as, if not more, stable. I see no reason at all to upgrade.
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That depends on which version of Vista you want to install.

Here are the minimum requirements. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/systemrequirements.mspx

And here you can compare the different versions. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/choose.mspx

I hear it is pretty good with multimedia, but I also hear that it is hell bent on enforcing the licenses on media. Like, if you rip your own CD's, they can only be played back on the PC they were ripped on. (Or something like that.)

Not that there is anything wrong with that! :D
 
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mixmkr said:
what I have heard is that Vista is geared BIG time for pro audio this time around. It has the feature of being able to priortize tasks...meaning that you don't have to go shut off all those other programs, even tweak the computer for audio. It will put audio first in sacrifice of graphics, etc... meaning it will "eliminate" audio stuttering...stuff like that. Yeah, supposedly you'll want new hardware...probably the computer, but it is supposed to be as big a jump over xp...as xp was over win98..
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Of course it's all for naught when it's more hardware intensive.
 
mixmkr said:
what I have heard is that Vista is geared BIG time for pro audio this time around.
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That's the funniest thing I've heard today.

I guessed you missed all the talk about Vista's DRM policies which make it virtually impossible to create and distribute your own music.
 
so you can't make a WAV or MP3 file in Vista eh... somehow I doubt that.
 
Mistral said:
so you can't make a WAV or MP3 file in Vista eh... somehow I doubt that.
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All that stuff about DRM and Vista needing lots of memory is the usual FUD that comes up when Microsoft releases a new OS.
 
Regarding the original post:
http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=support.faq&ID=2b9102ba8e228823582720fb3beba029

"The Fast Track USB, the M-Audio Micro, and Session 1.5 are our first products to be officially qualified for use with Windows Vista. M-Audio currently expects to release 32-bit Vista drivers for all of the following models during the second quarter of 2007: all FireWire products; all currently selling USB MIDI keyboards; Fast Track Pro, JamLab, MobilePre USB, Black Box and Transit USB interfaces; Conectiv and Xponent DJ interfaces; and the Revolution 5.1 PCI card"
 
brzilian said:
That's the funniest thing I've heard today.

I guessed you missed all the talk about Vista's DRM policies which make it virtually impossible to create and distribute your own music.
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100% wrong. Your watching way to many mac commercials. DRM policies are ONLY relevant for DRM CONTENT, non-DRM content has no restrictions
 
Speaking from purely work experience (I'm in development), I can say that Vista blows chunks. I'd come in each day and something new would be malfunctioning without me ever having to touch the machine. One day group policy client stopped working, no docs on what the cause is, so no more domain logon for me. Next my video drivers somehow disappeared. Then themes service started crashing at random intervals even though I explicitly set it to disabled. This was actually the biggest contributor to me quitting that job. They wanted me to be a guinea pig for Vista (but didn't notice that I was running Ubuntu in a VM for most of my work). Worse than ME, in my opinion.
 
As of yesterday, the audiophile card, the delta's and the older USB cards are last on the list of Vista driver releases and they have no projected release date. They won't even say for sure that they even will release a driver for those older products.
 
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