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Comment on Sunday Afternoon at the Teahouse by MisteryX_891

MisteryX_891 — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 21:11:35 +0000

damn that’s beautifull!

Comment on Anitek – Instrumentals Vol. 1 by Sean

Sean — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 08:03:58 +0000

Fixed the player. Posterous mangles them.

Comment on Windows 7 64 bit Enters My Studio by Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 19:08:49 +0000

Hi! I’m having similar problems trying to fix up Alesis IO26 with Windows 7. I changed Firewire into Legacy driver, but it had no effect on IO26. Hardware monitoring and IO26 Control Panel programs aren’t working though sounds are working properly. Thanks for tips anyway, i’m really amazed of how smoothly Windows 7 operates compared to Vista.

Comment on Windows 7 64 bit Enters My Studio by Sean

Sean — Sun, 02 May 2010 17:57:12 +0000

Well now I’m confused. I suppose I mis-typed what I had been installing after the fact. My driver appears to be the Vista + XP 64-bit driver. However, I have some special configuration notes that got the iO24 to work properly.

1) Windows Key + Pause/Break for Computer Properties
2) Device Manager
3) Expand Firewire Devices
4) Click on the host controller and update the driver to, “1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller (Legacy)”

Comment on Windows 7 64 bit Enters My Studio by Sean

Sean — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:26:31 +0000

Thus far I’ve managed to find out that Ableton Live 8 only has issues with my hand-recorded samples. My small low-fi recorder uses WMA format, then I transcode it into a .WAV file. If I don’t encode it into a 16-bit/44kHz file, Ableton 8 crashes when I try to change projects. It’s strange. Otherwise, I don’t encounter any issues until I load the CPU to 100% or bog down my memory with too many plug-ins! The way it should be, hehe.

Otherwise: I’ve had great success using Windows 7, Live 8 and Reason 4. I’ve used various plug ins and other soft synths, recorded tons of live audio with my iO26, all with no issues.

I use this setup as my main PC, too, so I also have a slew of other non-music related development software installed. Win7 seems to be doing fine multi-tasking the duties of a web development, photography processing, multi-media hosting, and audio recording/producing machine. Gone are the days of “needing” to reboot to get a fresh set of memory and cpu.

I would always recommend you have a dedicated recording/workstation computer, though, as you won’t have to worry about what you’re installing conflicting with your audio setup and bogging your system down.

I am now curious about how Win7 and a well built laptop would handle a heavy tour schedule. I’m considering it greatly, as I don’t own a performance laptop yet.

Comment on Windows 7 64 bit Enters My Studio by Sean

Sean — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:16:41 +0000

Whoa.. bizzare! I went to the Alesis website, poked around Google, and I can’t find the driver *anywhere*. Now, unless I was sorely mistaken back in July of 2009, I am 99% sure I downloaded a beta Win7 driver. The iO26 monitor/control pannel and configuration GUI is all different, and I specifically remember downloading ‘beta’ drivers. Perhaps Alesis removed them?? I can’t find anyone who has reference to the drivers, but a slew of people are posting that they can’t use, or have problems using, their iO26 in Win7 with the Vista 64 drivers.

I will take a look at the driver install I’m using to see what’s up, and post my findings back here.

I saved the download and installed the driver again when I upgraded to Win7 Ultimate retail.

Comment on Windows 7 64 bit Enters My Studio by jack

jack — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 10:41:12 +0000

You wrote – it crashed only once. Please write when and how do u feel about your setup right now (after a while using it) Any new things you noticed? Tips?

Thanks
Greets

Comment on Windows 7 64 bit Enters My Studio by Christophe

Christophe — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:37:38 +0000

Hello,

I cannot find the beta (or not beta driver) for the Alesis IO26 under Windows 7. Where did you find it ?
On Alesis website there is only the Windows XP and Windows Vista drivers.
So I guess there is a special place for the beta versions ?

thnx !

Christophe

Comment on Sunday Afternoon at the Teahouse by Sean

Sean — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:27:06 +0000

…and here I go again, testing the comments section so that it displays right in my new theme on my super secret test site. Yea.. I test using production data.. oooo, so taboo! /geek.

Comment on Windows 7 64 bit Enters My Studio by Sean

Sean — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:18:32 +0000

Hey Bob, I’m posting a follow up here;

I tried the driver you linked me to, but it turns out to be the Vista 64-bit drivers. Those don’t work for me– Well, the DRIVER for the device works, however the padKontrol Editor Librarian software won’t communicate with the padKontrol, so I suppose it 1/2 works ;)

I have to program the device in Windows XP right now.. I will do some more digging since it has been a few months since I have looked properly.