Re: everyone having fun with the Digidesign CoreAudio drivers?
Re: everyone having fun with the Digidesign CoreAudio drivers?
- Subject: Re: everyone having fun with the Digidesign CoreAudio drivers?
- From: Chris Reed <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 11:11:44 -0500
Yes, their drivers are definitely the worst. I've had several customers
too that have Digi hardware but don't use Protools. There are all sorts
of trouble that they run into, and I just have to tell them "that's the
way Digi's CoreAudio drivers are. they are broken. please complain to
Digi so we can get them fixed". (The particular problem I run into with
my software is the forced hog mode, which is simply ridiculous.)
I've got an Mbox too, but I actually only use it in Protools since
that's the only thing it works worth a damn in! Which means that I
hardly ever use it ;-)
The funny thing is, the CoreAudio drivers are so bad that if you want
to use the Digi hardware you pretty much have to use Protools (which
comes with the hardware, of course). But Protools itself doesn't use
the CoreAudio drivers. So the CA drivers are pretty much useless.
-chris
On Sep 10, 2003, at 9:26 AM, Jim Vanaria wrote:
Hey Chris,
Just wanted to let you know that you are not alone in your frustration
with Digidesign. Indeed, their drivers are the WORST. I have the
Digi-001 and the DD coders developed the driver so that your mac NEVER
GOES TO SLEEP. I totally cripples a feature of Mac OS X. As a
result, I had to write a little app (DigiSleep Enabler
http://www.xmidi.com/digisleep.html) that removes their drivers and
reinstalls automatically. I've had over 100 downloads from people
from the Digi forum and at least 20 emails from people telling me
thanks for "fixing" Digi's problem. I've been on their customer
support trying to list this as a bug and they simply tell me it is
"expected behavior" for their driver. I can't tell you how
frustrating it is to see a company that is so INCONSIDERATE of the OS
that it is running on.
And as you have noticed, their drivers (despite the claim of working
with all apps) are only reliable with PT. Within Cubase, the audio
drops out randomly and frequently.
It seems to me that if a company is going to say that they've released
a CoreAudio driver, that it should meet some minimum requirements,
pass some standard test supplied by Apple. Digidesign throws around
that phrase almost as a marketing tool because their "CoreAudio
Drivers" only seem to work within PT.
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