Vista - M-Audio Firewire Audio Drivers

Good news to those who own an M-Audio Firewire Series sound card. Drivers
(Beta) are finally available for Vista.

Steve

Since 25 March 2008, x64 firewire audio drivers are available for m-audio beta testers.

Does anyone have any ideea on where to download those drivers ?

I need them badly... My Firewire Solo dosen't work at all under x64.

SP1 has better support for firewire.

"86C415" <86C415.37r730@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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Does anybody know when the drivers will be available to the public ?
Did they leak to the web already ?

There is an easy solution to make FW Solo drivers for WinXP64 work in Vista X64: you need to enable unsigned driver loading. You can do so using EasyBCD utility, see attached screenshot. I don't use any audio production software and can't say anything about system stability, but now i hear music using foobar2000 with ASIO output plugin and it works for me just fine.
Good luck! And sorry for my english

Added: For those who have Vista SP1 installed, option described above doesn't work anymore. You need to use something like this tool
http://www.ngohq.com/home.php?page=dseo
There are instruction how to use Driver Signature Enforcement Overrider and download link for this tool. You need enable test mode and sign following system file:
YourWindowsDir\system32\drivers\deltafw.sys

Help!

I just bought an M-Audio Firewire Solo, and I'm trying to print 24-bit mixes from my 02R coaxial SPDIF out to the SPDIF in on the M-Audio interface. I have selected the "external clock" option from the M-Audio hardware control panel, and I can record the mixes through the interface. Problem is, every 30 seconds or so, a little "tick" or "pop" gets recorded along with the audio - it definitely sounds like a clock issue.

I have tried both sets of drivers (ASIO and WDM), and have set the buffer size as high as possible... I still have the problem.

I've downloaded the latest VISTA 32-bit drivers from the M-Audio website, so I know I'm using the right drivers. And the problem is not the SPDIF output, which prints just fine to a Tascam CD-burner I have. The problem seems like it's that the SPDIF clock won't slave properly. It's close, but I can't have POPs in my audio every 30-40 seconds.

Ideas? I thought Firewire was supposed to be the solution to everything! I just bought this unit to replace an M-Audio USB interface that had the same problem.

Please help!

DAVID