Windows7 + RME Fireface800 (32 & 64bit) latency

[Mfx]

Hi

Been fortunate enough to be sent a free copy of Windows7 Ultimate and installed the 64bit version all working good except...

Whilst the RME audio interface has installed, under legacy drivers as defined by RME and works fine with all W7 applications I have hit a wall with Cubase.

When setting up Audio Devices the RME does not appear as an audio device in the ASIO panel. There are only 2 options available :

1. ASIO Full direct X - which I can manually select (tick box) all the inputs and outs in the control panel but this appears only as the old style (cubase3) settings and can only set the buffers to a low of 512, defaulted at 2048.
This is resulting with latency of input of 80ms and out 11ms.
2. ASO Low latency will not allow multi in and outs and still has a latency of 30ms.

In XP the fireface will show automatically as ASIO interface and uses the FF control panel in Cubases device panel which is set at 256 and latency around 6ms in/out and 128ms : 3ms in.out wwhich is nicelt balanced.

Anyone else had this issue and found a solution please.

Regards

M

[The Guru]

Did you install the drivers as an Admin in W7? Accounts default to limited. Try moving the Cubase Prefs folder to the desktop and restart the app.

[OpenMind]

I downloaded the latest FF800 drivers and found in readme.txt:


Notes on Windows 7: Driver 2.98 is now directly compatible to the new Microsoft FireWire driver. Unfortunately its audio performance and behaviour is - at this time - not on par with the former one. Therefore we continue to recommend to use the old MS FireWire driver under Windows 7. How to:

- Go to Device Manager, FireWire Contoller.
- Choose Driver, Update Driver Software
- Choose 'Browse my Computer for driver software'
- Choose 'Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer'. A list pops up that showes three entries:

OHCI-compliant 1394 Host controller
OHCI-compliant 1394 Host controller (legacy)
OHCI-compliant Texas Instruments 1394-Host controller

- From these three select 'OHCI-compliant 1394 Host controller (legacy)'

[Mfx]

Thanks for the advice and have followed install instructions using legacy install of drivers.

Cubase 64bit the Fireface ASIO drivers have miraculously appeared which is great and got jBridge working for the 32bit plugins - so overall happy as dual boot with XP for 32 bit config when needed :D

Cubase 32bit still direct X MME drivers or ASIO low latency drivers both as describe in body of post :(

No big issue but would be nice to see both working.

The odd thing is in Task Manager the driver for the RME shows as 32bit. But Im no techie so it may be a red herring.