TAFKAT
07-27-2009, 04:19 PM
Hey All,
I am addressing this specifically to those of us who have Midex 8 Units , that will be orphaned shortly as the move to 64 bit gains momentum. Initially I was going to direct this to the PC guys, but having just checked the latest OSX driver stopped dead at 10.3 as a BETA as well, lets open it up to both Mac and PC users.
I know this was beaten to death a few years back , and I really couldn't be bothered reading thru the old threads at the other spaces , but did Steinberg ever give a tangible reason why they could not develop 64 bit drivers for these units.
I do know that part of the issue was that the LTB on Windows required a Direct X component of the application to be in place, which Steinberg killed off in seq4 - focus, leave that for another thread - , but that shouldn't stop the units from operating as a conventional MIDI device.
8 In / 8 Out MIDI devices are pretty thin on the ground now and are less of a priority with the virtual instruments taking front and centre, but surely someone should be able to knock together a working x64 driver for this unit.
I have heard rumours of the code being tied up because of some bullshite political fallout between Steini and the 3rd part responsible, but seeing its been a good 5 years plus, and there must be more than a few end users in exactly the same position that would rather not park the units.
I am wondering if its worth a collective campaign to find who the original developers were , and contacting them directly about developing an x64 driver , or if that is not possible, a 3rd party willing to reverse engineer and develop a driver for the unit.
I am more than willing to pay for a working driver, as I suspect most would if it meant not binning the units..
Thoughts.. ?
I am addressing this specifically to those of us who have Midex 8 Units , that will be orphaned shortly as the move to 64 bit gains momentum. Initially I was going to direct this to the PC guys, but having just checked the latest OSX driver stopped dead at 10.3 as a BETA as well, lets open it up to both Mac and PC users.
I know this was beaten to death a few years back , and I really couldn't be bothered reading thru the old threads at the other spaces , but did Steinberg ever give a tangible reason why they could not develop 64 bit drivers for these units.
I do know that part of the issue was that the LTB on Windows required a Direct X component of the application to be in place, which Steinberg killed off in seq4 - focus, leave that for another thread - , but that shouldn't stop the units from operating as a conventional MIDI device.
8 In / 8 Out MIDI devices are pretty thin on the ground now and are less of a priority with the virtual instruments taking front and centre, but surely someone should be able to knock together a working x64 driver for this unit.
I have heard rumours of the code being tied up because of some bullshite political fallout between Steini and the 3rd part responsible, but seeing its been a good 5 years plus, and there must be more than a few end users in exactly the same position that would rather not park the units.
I am wondering if its worth a collective campaign to find who the original developers were , and contacting them directly about developing an x64 driver , or if that is not possible, a 3rd party willing to reverse engineer and develop a driver for the unit.
I am more than willing to pay for a working driver, as I suspect most would if it meant not binning the units..
Thoughts.. ?