![]() Here's the outcome:Ġ) The 16-bit x 24-bit thing was truly my idiotic fault, I missed the settings in Project/Global - that is solved, thanks.ġ) The installation. I spent some three hours fiddling with it yesterday. What's wrong?Ĭan any of the original Onyx users give me a detailed step-by-step to make the damn device work flawlessly under 32-bit XP SP3 with Sonar 8.5PE? ALso, the author od the thread states it fixes SP2 behavior but I used to have no problems under SP2. Should I reinstall the system back to SP2? If so, which version of Onyx drivers should I use? On Mackie forums I read about some FireWire fix but I was unable to find the fix package on the internet. I really don't know what to do since I've tried everything I could think of. Also, it doesn't operate in 24-bit no matter what I do - the status bar always shows XX kHz, 16-bit (I even tried to edit the config file manually but it still shows 16-bit even though there's 24-bit set in Options/Audio/General). I either have no audio at all (the track meters show nothing, nothing gets recorded, nothing get played back) or experience faulty performance (long pauses, Sonar's position cursor jumping instead of moving smoothly) or just digital distortion instead of anything else. I tried both the original drivers (which came with the FW card on the installation CD) and the most recent ones from Mackie website (1.1.1) - each time on a different disk partition. Now, I can't seem to make the Onyx work with my system anymore. I needed to reinstall the whole system and decided to upgrade to Sonar 8.5 (8.5.3) and also to go to XP SP3 (32-bit). Previously I was using my Onyx 1620+FW card with Sonar 7 on WinXP SP2, running 1.0.x drivers (the Onyx Control panel) without any serious issues, I could run at latencies, there were no drop out or artifacts. May I ask the users of Mackie Onyx FireWire card (the original one, not the new Onyx-i series) for help? I've posted this here because I think this is a computer issue, not a Mackie mixer issue.After reinstall, Mackie Onyx 1620+FW card can't seem to work inside Sonar (XP SP3) I really have no clue where, when and why the drivers for these mixers just stop working, but I suspect it's Windows, not the drivers. Other possibly pertinent info: this happens when I just install the factory-shipped Windows XP system, and when I update it from Wonders Update (service packs 2, 3, yadda, etc.). In the meantime, I'd appreciate the brain juice from folks here. I already plan to just move the hell away from Windows and/or obtain a different DAC interface for my mixers, but I'm just a poor working artist and that will take time to save up for. I waste a small but annoying amount of time each session with this, when I should be able to turn everything on and go. Is there a particular Windows service that I think is useless, that I've disabled, but prevents this fiasco from happening? And other such possible advice. I was wondering if anyone here might have some insight as to why this happens and what to do about it. They're probably sick of hearing about it (although I'd say "tough!"). I've traded enough emails with them about this to fill up a freighter cargo container, to no avail. If I want audio to work through these mixers.įorget contacting Mackie. So it always gets to the point where I have to re-install these drivers every. If I re-install the drivers before turning the mixers on (and part of installing the drivers is turning on the mixers to let Windows "recognize" them), it then works. At some point, the drivers fail to function, and audio is not heard from existing audio tracks (not talking about MIDI tracks here, just audio), and audio is not recorded to Sonar from the instruments connected to the mixers. ![]() The Mackie Onyx Firewire option has software drivers, which I have installed. I have a Windows XP DAW (Digital Audio Workstation), to which is attached a Mackie Onyx 1640 and a Mackie Onyx 1620, both with Firewire cards, and both plugged into the DAW through their Firewire cards. Windows and Mackie Onyx mixers, weird driver fail fiasco
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