FIXED: Profire 2626 - code 10 "device cannot start" error in Windows XP - Page 10 - The Official M-Audio User Forums

blakegaston · #91 10-07-2009, 10:13 AM

You went to MOTU and now you are happier? o_O What about the giant blanket you just essentially put over your speakers? Anyways, ignoring my dislike for MOTU converters... I too agree M-Audio should support bootcamp. Unlike PCs where there are -inf configurations in which you can build them, with Macs there are like... 20. With bootcamp (still developing for the same hardware, mind you), there are like 40.

Not unreasonable, especially when a LOT of people are buying Macs for the ability to switch. Including myself.

rgomez · #92 10-07-2009, 10:27 AM

Yeah, I agree. They could support bootcamp without problems if they wanted to. They already support the hardware on the Mac side, so it's not like they don't have a way to try it. I'm sure that if they just debug their drivers an afternoon they could find and fix the bug that is preveting us to work with them. They don't even have to officially support it, I mean, no WHQL certification or anything like that.

smilesdavis · #93 11-07-2009, 04:15 AM

M-audio is known to write bad drivers. I sold one 410 and three 2626 units and went over to RME. (I am not affiliated with RME) the latency is 1/3rd of the M-audio drivers and the quality of the converters is simply amazing (I compared them with RNDigital IXL). M-Audio is AVID's consumer range of products and this is what you get. So the "PROfire Series" is nothing but a marketing tag. I cannot install 410 and 2626 on 1 Mac at the same time without issues. (the interface wouldn't pop up anymore). This happened twice with clients in the same room. made me look like an idiot. so if your business can afford M-audio making you look like an idiot, go for it. if not, invest someplace else.

blakegaston · #94 11-08-2009, 01:15 PM

If you tried doing that, then its your own fault you looked like an idiot, as M-Audio states over and over again, that multiple interfaces aren't supported.

Grab me a RME Madi card and some killer converters. I'll take that any day over M-Audio stuff.

Theres a reason you are paying 1/3 the price of a FF800 when you buy a 2626. I've owned almost every product in RME's arsenal. Personally, Id take a 2626 just for the volume knob on the front, and for the fact that the control panel doesn't absolutely blow. Sure the totalmix matrix is awesome, but there are SO many flaws with it, especially in the way it doesn't follow a lot of the OSX developing standards, that just annoy the hell out of me. Its routing is absolutely brilliant and the latency is good as well, but for the amount you are paying, its ridiculous.

Btw, read the lengthy thread on gearslutz where a majority of the people couldn't tell the difference between the FF400/FF800 converters and the Profire 2626 converters. Some actually preferred the Profire. The preamps on the FF400 suck as well. I'm not saying the 2626's are amazing or anything, they are both consumer level preamps, and honestly, their job is to amplify a mic signal to a line level signal, at a semi clean and transparent level and thats what they do. Their job isn't to sound musical or aggressive or fat or warm, etc.

Once again, I'm tired of people complaining. You get what to pay for. Period. In the case of the Profire 2626, if you snag a good deal, I personally feel like you get a little bit more. If you don't like it, then yea. Pay more. Go get an Apogee ensemble, or a FF800. Hell, go get a ULN-8 or Orpheus. $600 for the profire? or $1500-$5000 for the others. Make your choice, and start making music.

Btw, have fun using Pro Tools with RME ;-). If you went to RME, its obviously not your DAW of choice, but clients will has PT sessions. Other studios will send you PT sessions. PT sessions are everywhere. How often do you see someone post a .cpr session online for people to mix and compare etc etc.

Just the ability to USE PT with a consumer interface is a +1.

BTW, I am not affiliated with M-Audio, RME, Avid, or Digidesign, and FWIW, I use a Pro Tools HD system.

nwdk · #95 11-16-2009, 09:04 AM

Thanks a lot for a thread blakegaston. Works perfect now... I'm extremely happy to have it done eventually....
M-AUDIO....you should really improve your drivers guys...this sort of things should not happen... I was ready to take it back to the shop...I'd been trying to get it to work for 3 dayz before I found the thread....
interface is great but it can really piss off its users before they have a chance to try it....sad but true...

blakegaston · #96 11-16-2009, 01:54 PM

glad to help.

"interface is great but it can really piss off its users before they have a chance to try it....sad but true... "

I think this is absolutely true. I bet the frustration of people giving up on getting their devices to work in certain applications is enough to return them / not even give them a shot. I wonder if M-Audio has lost more money to this than R+D, driver development would have been.