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M-Audio Drivers for Vista 64-bit

2 March, 2009 - 12:12 — matt

For those of you using Vista on your home studio DAW, it's been a bumpy ride, but many manufacturers finally have Vista driver compatibility issues sorted out it seems.

M-Audio drivers for Vista 64-bit and Vista 64-bit SP1 are now available for almost all the M-Audio products, including the following hardware:

Audiophile USB
Conectiv*
Delta 44
Delta 66
Delta 410
Delta 1010
Delta 1010lt
Delta Audiophile 24/96
Delta Audiophile 192
Fast Track Pro
Fast Track Ultra
Fast Track Ultra 8R
Fast Track USB
FireWire 410
FireWire 1814
FireWire Audiophile
FireWire Ozonic
FireWire Solo
KeyStudio 49i
Micro USB
MicroTrack II (firmware update)
Midisport 2x2 Anniv Ed
Midisport 4x4 ANniv Ed
NRV-10
Ozone USB
Producer USB
ProFire 610
ProFire 2626
ProFire Lightbridge
ProjectMix I/O
ProKeys Sono 61/88
Session 1.6.3v5
Xponent*

* Note: At this time, Torq is not officially qualified for Windows Vista 64bit; however, it will install and run as a 32-bit application on Vista 64bit; and there are no known issues at this time.

At the time of writing this, there are currently the following M-Audio BETA drivers for Vista 64 available for:

JamLab
M-Audio Black Box
MobilePre USB
Revolution 5.1
Revolution 7.1
Transit USB

Vista 64 bit drivers for M-Audio MIDI interfaces and controllers are still currently under development, although apparently the following class compliant (plug & play) devices can be used without installing any drivers under Windows Vista 64-bit (including Service Pack 1):

MIDI Devices:
Axiom 25, 49, 61
eKeys/eKeys 49
Keystation Pro 88
Keystation 49e, 61es, 88es
KeyStudio 25, 49
KeyRig 25, 49
Oxygen 8v2, 49, 61
O2
MIDISport Uno (current model)
MIDISport 1x1 (black top)
MK-225, 249, 361
MK-249c, 361c, 425c
MK-449c, 461c
ProKeys 88, 88sx
Trigger Finger
UC-16, 33, 33e
X-Session Pro
X-Session UC-17

Connect your USB MIDI Device and Windows will install the drivers automatically. If prompted to insert a disc or search for drivers, click Browse my computer for driver software. On the following page click Browse and point the search for drivers to your System Drive (e.g. C:\) to install the drivers.

Click here for the latest M-Audio Vista x64 driver status list.

You can download the Vista drivers (and all other M-audio drivers) from here.

Thanks to maketunes member bariga for letting me know about this latest Vista driver release.


Comments

4 March, 2009 - 23:35 — illusivemind
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Yeah, I was waiting for these, but now I'm just gonna wait for Windows 7.
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5 March, 2009 - 10:34 — matt
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Yeah you know its seeming like that for a few people huh. In many ways Vista is like the OS that never was ;) I'm sure its out there in numbers by now, but man the uptake was shockingly slow. Ah well, hopefully the next one will be better.

9 March, 2009 - 13:43 — MemphisWithanS
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**mod edit - moved question here**
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Memphis (with an S)

9 March, 2009 - 14:30 — matt
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Hey Memphis, I've just posted your comment as a new forum thread - clearer that way rather than tacked on as a comment in here. Feel free to post your questions/info as forum threads. Cheers

10 March, 2009 - 01:01 — MemphisWithanS
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Thanks Matt.
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Memphis (with an S)

31 March, 2009 - 07:52 — bariga
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I think windows 7 uses the same kernel as windows vista SP1
so i give the vista sp1 drivers a good shot of working stable on windows 7..
maybe someone with the beta version could test it???
We'll never know untill someone tried :)

and the reason why this took so long was that it was pretty dificult to write stable drivers in multi threading ( techn. for using multiple core performance)
i'd doubt that the windows 7 drivers would again take so long..
in my opinion OS developers should work close with other hardware companies so they allready would have the drivers from the moment a new OS comes out..
But who am i to complain about these things...

Greetings Bariga
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3 April, 2009 - 00:57 — RUBZ
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boooohooo, my m audio Quatro USB still does not support vista and 64 bit :(

8 April, 2009 - 08:24 — bariga
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btw i've looked it up, it seems that win7 needs other drivers then vista x86/x64.
i know i'll keep the driver issue in mind when buying new gear..
i was planning to upgrade my interface to an rma pci-express with a breakout box..
but i'm just gonna wait knowing that i won't ever have this driver problem again :)
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