SAWStudio and Mackie 1620i

[Dan Hauck]

Probably been covered here already, but anybody know if I can use SAWStudio with a Mackie 1620i & if so, what driver software I need?

Thanks

Dan

[DominicPerry]

Mackie are hopeless with their drivers. Be very careful and don't expect much in the way of updates. Look on the Mackie forum to see the discontent.

Dominic

[Dan Hauck]

That doesn't surprise me. I'll limp thru using a poor imitation of SAWStudio on a mac.

Thanks, Dom

Dan

[DominicPerry]

I don't think you'll find the Mac drivers are any better. Nothing for 10.8.x, at least not the last time I looked. If they work, they work. If you're running SAW on XP or Win7 you may be ok. Pretty sure there was nothing for Win8.

I had the earlier version of that mixer, the 1640 with a very expensive and poorly spec'd FW interface card. It sounded great, and looked and felt lovely but the firewire drivers were dire. They never made it past version 1.0.0

I also had a Mackie MDR2496 - again, a great piece of kit with lousy firmware, not updated enough, given the lifespan of the product.

Good luck

Dominic
EDIT: Just checked - driver version 1.9 for Windows covers 32bit only XP SP3 to 32bit and 64bit Win 7. Mac is OS 10.4.11 to 10.7.1

[demodoc]

I use SAWStudio with my Mackie Onyx 1640 i and it works perfectly every time on both laptop and desktop systems. Win XP SP 3.

[Dan Hauck]

Demo...

Could you PM me or contact me at

dan@hauckav.com

Thanks

Dan