M-Audio interfaces rule - a field report

[archiei]

I'm ready to try anything, so I'll download Vista ones and let you know how it goes. I also have tried disabling power management, indexing and whatever. The funny thing is, that for a few seconds, up to a minute, the sound seems ok. Then the distortion steps in.

[justin3am]

The Vista drivers are the same as the Win7 drivers.* I wouldn't hold my breath for Win8 drivers. I think all existing M-Audio interfaces became "legacy" after AVID sold the brand to InMusic. I could be wrong though.

* I'm wrong, a new installer was released for Win7 sp1, earlier this year. Perhaps there is hope for future driver development.

I've been pretty happy with an M-Audio ProjectMix I/O on Vista 64 and Snow Leopard...

I wonder why maudio never developed this further. I don't even know if they make them anymore but I always thought that was a terrific unit. Golden age when that came out, a ton of cutting edge products.

I love my ProjectMix I/O. It's one of the best things they ever made, in my opinion.

[hibidy]

There's nothing like that now.

[Jace-BeOS]

I've been pretty happy with an M-Audio ProjectMix I/O on Vista 64 and Snow Leopard...

I wonder why maudio never developed this further. I don't even know if they make them anymore but I always thought that was a terrific unit. Golden age when that came out, a ton of cutting edge products.

I'm pretty sure it's discontinued. I tried to sell mine. Disaster of eBaying. After finding a "temporary" spot to sit it for testing to make sure the jerk buyer didn't hurt it, I decided to keep it anyway. In fact, I've found it very helpful in mixing. Which I guess is the point It's just a bit large. I've no good way to position my stuff since I have a monster CRT for graphics and gaming. Prior to a recent couple of projects, all i used on the ProjectMix were the shuttle controls, which are nice because they have contextual backlighting.

It is a nice device. I'm not sure what people think of the mic preamps and I've never had anything fancy to compare to. Anyone have comments on that?

As for development... I think driver development is on hiatus since M-Audio was sold. No new drivers in some time. Likely, the FireWire drivers for most M-Audio stuff is monolithic like NI's audio drivers. If one device is updated, it's likely the others will be too.