002 Rack - Driver

[Carl Kolchak]

I'm slowly inching towards actually installing PT11 on a couple of my systems, but I have to admit that I'm a little confused by some of the info regarding which driver to use with the 002 Rack, particularly in a dual installation with PT10 situation.

The latest drivers, released on the 20th of June have a number of quirky caveats :


Mac driver 11.0.0

• Added support for Pro Tools 11 with 003 Rack and Console (Pro Tools 10 not supported)

• Known Issue: Digi 002 Console and Rack not supported for PT 11 at this time


Windows driver 9.0.7

• Support for Pro Tools 10.3 - Pro Tools 11 with 003 Rack

• Known Issue: Digi 002 Rack not supported


Windows driver 9.0.5

• Support for Pro Tools 10.3 - Pro Tools 11 with 003 Console

• Known Issue: Digi 002 Console not supported


With regards to the Mac installer, the implication is that it is useless for a dual installation, with the 003 Rack not supported with PT10, and the 002 Rack not supported at this time in PT11 - is this the usual Avid vernacular for "probably will work, but we're not officially supporting it" as opposed to it will not work, and is not compatible?


With regards to the Windows drivers, it would appear that 9.0.7 driver is specifically for the Rack units, and the 9.0.5 driver is specifically for the Console units - is that correct?

And again, presumably the not supported caveat is doublespeak for "Should work, but we haven't tested it", but it's interesting that the Mac driver stipulates "not supported at this time".

I've seen a number of users of both Mac & Windows reporting that the units are working with PT11, so if somebody could advise which drivers they are successfully using, it would be much appreciated.

Cheers!

[Park Seward]

The basic story is the newest drivers work with PT11 and the old driver works with PT10. Yes, you can install both drivers. The AVID002 driver is the one for PT11. The DIGI002 is the older driver.

Mac users seem to have better luck than Windows.

My Mac works well with the 002 rack.

[Carl Kolchak]

Cheers Park!

I didn't realise you could have both drivers installed simultaneously (which is kind of dumb on my part, now that I think about it).

In the past, PT would automatically prompt you to instal a new driver, if you upgraded to a newer version of the software that required a driver update - doing so replaced the previous driver.

Of course, in the past you could only have one installation of PT per computer, so there would have been no provision for two drivers - unlike now.

Thanks again.