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M-Audio 64-bit Drivers??

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BX_TECH_GOD

Gawd
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Hey, I have an M-Audio Axiom 25 midi controller and will be connecting it for the first time to my fresh Vista Home Premium 64-bit install. On the M-Audio website I can only find Vista 32-bit drivers. Does anyone know if these drivers will work or know where I can get some beta or modified drivers somewhere for this? Thanks in advance!
 
Good luck finding drivers, man. M-Audio is spotty at best in providing updated drivers. They aren't even issuing ANY Vista drivers (32 or 64 bit) for the Revolution 5.1 or 7.1 soundcards. I'll have to buy a new soundcard when I eventually build a new rig for Vista.
My Revo 7.1 drivers are from 2004!
It's a really frustrating situation because M-Audio makes great products. Their driver support is piss poor. Good luck with your MIDI controller.
 
Thanks for the input man but dam that sux I have to agree wit u on that. Anybody else with any input?
 
Ya, M-Audio has a bad case of "If it new we don't understand it and therefor it is Microsoft's fault." I had a Delta 1010 back when Windows 2000 came out and it was hell getting them to release proper WDM drivers for it. Took over a year before they finally had proper, stable, drivers that actually supported all the card's features.

In general pro audio companies seem to be real slow on the uptake of new technologies and 64-bit is no exception. Most pro audio software isn't 64-bit these days (despite the fact that the extra memory would be extremely useful).

It sucks, but that's just kinda what it is right now. Don't expect M-Audio to be on the stick with 64-bit drivers.
 
Sycraft said:
Ya, M-Audio has a bad case of "If it new we don't understand it and therefor it is Microsoft's fault." I had a Delta 1010 back when Windows 2000 came out and it was hell getting them to release proper WDM drivers for it. Took over a year before they finally had proper, stable, drivers that actually supported all the card's features.

In general pro audio companies seem to be real slow on the uptake of new technologies and 64-bit is no exception. Most pro audio software isn't 64-bit these days (despite the fact that the extra memory would be extremely useful).

It sucks, but that's just kinda what it is right now. Don't expect M-Audio to be on the stick with 64-bit drivers.
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When Pro Tools goes 64-bit, everyone will go x64. Right now it doesn't make much sense having a 64-bit WIndows installed as a DAW
 
If you think Pro Tools is the only game in town you are seriously mistaken. Cubase/Neuendo and Sonar, are big on the PC, probably bigger than Pro Tools at this point, and Logic and Digital Performer on the Mac.

There is demand for 64-bit systems now if for no other reason than composing with large samples. On a 32-bit system, a single application can use at most 2GB with out special settings (virtual memory is divided such that there is 2GB user, 2GB kernel). That isn't hard to fill up with sample banks these days. Eastwest is selling sample sets that are 68GB (really, click on the link and see) so even with disk streaming you can eat up your RAM in a hurry.

Well Sonar supports 64-bit just fine, and Eastwest's Play sampler (which does 64-bit) is coming soon. As such there is a real possibility of people wanting 64-bit systems to get at the memory it gains you.

However M-Audio certianly might wait for Pro Tools, as Avid owns them.
 
Sycraft said:
If you think Pro Tools is the only game in town you are seriously mistaken.
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Well, tell that to all the audio engineers, music studios, record labels, movie studios, tv networks, that use Pro Tools as the standard DAW, and they are the ones that spend the big bucks on software, so as long as these people don't demand 64 bit or their main tool (Pro Tools) doesn't go 64-bit compatible, the music software industry won't be too concerned to provide 64-bit support.
 
Not saying that it isn't widely used, just saying it isn't the only game in town, or even the biggest anymore. You are kidding yourself if you think it is, or that others aren't doing the 64-bit thing. As I said, Sonar is 64-bit, Play is 64-bit, there are plenty of audio interfaces with 64-bit drivers (MOTU, Echo, Lynx, etc) and so on. Pro Tools isn't the only game in town for audio anymore, just as Avid isn't the only game in town for video.
 
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