New official aardvark pre release drivers out

[weatherbill]

well i had to call aardvark over the phone (great people support there) to get info on the new pre-release drivers for my Q-10 for win xp. If you are wanting to download this driver, get on the phone to aark and ask for dave in tech and over the phone, he went thru with me every step to get the new xp drivers going, but I don't think it's their drivers that are giving me problems. I hear that cakewalk may not be compatable in win xp.
I'm still looking into it and if anyone out there is running 8 tracks at once smothly with cakewalk pro 9 on win xp, no matter the sound card, I'de like to know, becasue that would eliminate the cakewalk in xp problem idea and then I could either look at my chip set or back to aardvark for teh problem.
When I try to record 8 tracks at once, it dropped out once, but then 2 more times i tried it and it recorded, but the play back of the recording was all glitchy and skippy. So if anyone can help any, send me an email, thanx...........nashvegas, tennessee

 

[getthis]

Cakewalk PA9 is NOT the issue in XP..........call Aardvark back!

 

[weatherbill]

YOU ARE SO WRONG getthis

go to my post in the cakewlak users forum in this same homerecroding.com and you'll see a link there to the cakewlak web site specifically stating that pro a 9 is not for the xp platform and that is why so many of us are having drop outs and trouble using pro 9 in xp. we need to upgrade to sonar ($99).
Win xp uses DMA drivers which sonar uses. But pro a 9 uses MME drivers. Pro a 9 doesn't use DMA. I've searched and searched under system mananger and other places and cannot find a tab in xp that undoes DMA and brings it back to MME drivers. I don't think they give that option in xp, so we're stuck with either having to go back to win 98 and redo the hard drive or upgrade to SOnar.
If you have another solution or find something I'm not seeing right in this, i'de be glad to receive correction and learn from it.

 

[getthis]

I AM NOT SO WRONG, you are mistaken...

I have had no trouble opening up and using my old projects from PA9 in XP so it's true there may be some problems but not with me.........

....and do you mean WDM instead of DMA?

 

[weatherbill]

yes

i meant WDM drivers, my mistake, but if you'll go to cakewalk home page, they'll tell you xp is not a platform for pro a 9. I've posted asking people if they have 8 tracks running smoothly in xp on pro 9 and so far, not one person has given a positive response to the question, but i've gotten negative response.
Are you recording 8 tracks at once on pro 9 in xp? Or are you just recording 2 or 3 at a time. That I can do with pro 9 in xp, but as soon as I go to 5 tracks at once, bam, there's the drop out when I play it back.

 

[getthis]

my last comp crapped out on me and this is the first time i've used XP. i can play back 16 tracks with comps and eq's and some effects flawlessly from some recording sessions i made a year ago. this is a cheap $450 computer with no expansion so i don't expect it to be a badass comp for recording and am building a new one to throw a delta1010 into. and i've given up recording on PA9, now i'm a cubase and acid pro man and pretty soon gigastudio as soon as i get these new comps up and running.

you'll have to talk to Aardvark on getting the right drivers set up for your system.