Is The 003R A Dead Fish?

[epu]

I'm happily using my 003R on an XP3 System w/o issue. I had to downgrade from Win7 because it just wasn't working. I did all of the system tweaks, fine tuned the usual suspects, etc. From threads at the time (year ago, year and a half ago), it seemed it was a 003R driver related issue. I'm chiming in now and am still seeing the same issue reported by people, even with the 8.0.5 updates and in 9.

I have a copy of W7 and would like to use it already, but I'm sticking with Win XP to avoid the problems. It's 2011. What's going on? Any success stories with the 003R and Win7? I still use my Quad Core Asus P5K desktop with Win XP.

[dwells]

Nope. The 003R drivers are crap! Avid is crap! Protools is crap! They want us to use XP because they are too lazy to spend the time an re-code the drivers to work. they just recycle the same drivers from XP. the ASIO drivers are the problem, it looks like a sync issue.

Or maybe I should downgrade to XP and use only 2GB for everything. lol

Or drop protools and use another interface and enjoy Windows 7 and 8GB of Ram

[EGS]

No driver issues here - touch wood !!!

[dwells]

with zero-latency monitoring?

please share. thanks

[EGS]

Originally Posted by dwells

with zero-latency monitoring?

please share. thanks

I never use low-latency monitoring, so I haven't tested that. I just run at buffer 64.

[Benoni]

Originally Posted by epu

I'm happily using my 003R on an XP3 System w/o issue. I had to downgrade from Win7 because it just wasn't working. I did all of the system tweaks, fine tuned the usual suspects, etc. From threads at the time (year ago, year and a half ago), it seemed it was a 003R driver related issue. I'm chiming in now and am still seeing the same issue reported by people, even with the 8.0.5 updates and in 9.

I have a copy of W7 and would like to use it already, but I'm sticking with Win XP to avoid the problems. It's 2011. What's going on? Any success stories with the 003R and Win7? I still use my Quad Core Asus P5K desktop with Win XP.

The 003R ran fine for me with 8.0.4cs2 on Windows 7. Never tried it with 8.0.5 or PT9 because since then I have sold my 003R.

You can always make an Image/clone of your current system before trying to load up Windows 7, so if you dont like it, you can get back to XP with all programs ready to go in no time.

[epu]

Well, I'm not going down this road again. I've done all the Sandra reports, the cloning, imaging, restoring with no avail. I see the issue still persists. I have the 3GB Switch running on XP. I can run Win7/64 and PT 8.0.4. fine on my laptop, but NOT on my desktop. The laptop is using an MBOX2, so maybe that's something there.

Such a shame. I was considering upgrading to HD1, but am not sure if it would be worth it. With PT it's kind of like you strike gold w/a certain configuration. stick with it, and never upgrade.

So for many of us, the 003R is indeed a dead fish!

[Shan]

Originally Posted by epu

Such a shame. I was considering upgrading to HD1, but am not sure if it would be worth it. With PT it's kind of like you strike gold w/a certain configuration. stick with it, and never upgrade.

So for many of us, the 003R is indeed a dead fish!

I'd definitely recommend HD Native over HD 1 these days. Not many native users would be happy with HD 1, as you'll very quickly hit it's shortcomings on it's decade old technology. Your desktop is almost 100% identical to mine(and mykhal_c's), which I run both the 003 and HD Native card without issues on Windows 7 64. If your having troubles getting the 003 with W7 64 going, then it's unlikely you'll get HD 1 up and running without fully optimizing the system. If we lived in the same area I'd definitely come over to see what's up. That said, there's Skype with desktop sharing, and there's also Team Viewer for a user friendly remote connection.

Just a FYI, I have zero latency monitoring using the ASIO driver with the HD Native rig, including it's own mixer. That said, I'll rarely need to use it as a buffer of 32 has been solid, even in programs like REAPER and Reason. The ASIO drivers are the best they've ever been in the 11 years I've been using them.

Shane

[TCM]

Originally Posted by Shan

I'd definitely recommend HD Native over HD 1 these days. Not many native users would be happy with HD 1, as you'll very quickly hit it's shortcomings on it's decade old technology. Your desktop is almost 100% identical to mine(and mykhal_c's), which I run both the 003 and HD Native card without issues on Windows 7 64. If your having troubles getting the 003 with W7 64 going, then it's unlikely you'll get HD 1 up and running without fully optimizing the system. If we lived in the same area I'd definitely come over to see what's up. That said, there's Skype with desktop sharing, and there's also Team Viewer for a user friendly remote connection.

Just a FYI, I have zero latency monitoring using the ASIO driver with the HD Native rig, including it's own mixer. That said, I'll rarely need to use it as a buffer of 32 has been solid, even in programs like REAPER and Reason. The ASIO drivers are the best they've ever been in the 11 years I've been using them.

Shane

Shane,
Does it mean you run your 003 with HD native?

And how is the conversion quality of the Omni?

Sorry for this OT questions!

Thomas

[zedhed]

I'm running 003 Rack successfully (Now) with PT9LE Win7, But man I had problems getting it up & running. I don't even know how I did it!

For weeks it wasn't working and I kept tweaking all over the place and suddenly it burst into life.

I've cloned the drive so I don't have to go through that nightmare again.