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heavi5ide · 9th April 2008, 08:37 AM

Just wanted to report on my experience with the Profire 2626 so far. Have been using it with Pro Tools M-Powered 7.4cs3 on a home-brew Core 2 Duo with XP. I can't remember the exact processor or motherboard models. I think the mobo is an Asus. I have the Profire connected to a PCI firewire card. Don't know what chipset it has (I salvaged from a previous home-brew pc) but I'll try to find out.

I've been having similar problems to joemeek (the Lenovo user) in that frequently the Profire is unrecognized when I start up the computer. I power on my rack power conditioners, and they turn on the profire. Then I turn on the pc, it starts up into windows, but if I try to open the Profire control panel it doesn't recognize the hardware and further, gives me some error ("Cyclic redundancy check" something or other).

Funny thing is, when I first installed it -- installed the driver, rebooted, un-installed PTMP 7.1, rebooted, installed PTMP 7.4, rebooted, installed PTMP 7.4cs3 update, rebooted -- everything was fine immediately. Once I worked out the clock issues -- using an RME ADI-8 DS as master clock on ADAT 1, and a Presonus Digimax FS as slave on ADAT 2 -- and configured the input order in the control panel (PTMP only allows 18 inputs so I'm forgoing the ones built into the Profire), I launched PTMP and everything worked great. Was able to immediately track 10 or 11 channels simultaneously into PTMP from the RME and the Digimax.

Since that first time though, whenever I turn on the computer the Profire is unrecognized. I got around this yesterday by re-installing the driver, after rebooting everything a couple times didn't work. Today, I was talking the lead singer through things over the phone, and eventually had him unplug the firewire cable while everything was off, replug it, and then turn things back on (profire before pc). This seemed to work for him. I'm guessing this is also just some firewire flakiness -- I'll be checking out what chipset I'm running and maybe I'll try a different PCI card.

Despite this problem, I'm loving this so far because of all the i/o. Also, build quality seems decent but QC maybe not so much -- one of the preamp knobs, which are pull-for-pad, pulled right off, and I haven't even used the preamps yet! It didn't break, I think it just wasn't glued right or something (I didn't see a set screw so I guess the knobs are glued on?).

Ray, thanks for being around. Good to have some support on the forums!

Nick

9th April 2008, 08:37 AM	#97
heavi5ide Gear Head Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Brooklyn, NY, USA Posts: 35	My 2626 experience Just wanted to report on my experience with the Profire 2626 so far. Have been using it with Pro Tools M-Powered 7.4cs3 on a home-brew Core 2 Duo with XP. I can't remember the exact processor or motherboard models. I think the mobo is an Asus. I have the Profire connected to a PCI firewire card. Don't know what chipset it has (I salvaged from a previous home-brew pc) but I'll try to find out. I've been having similar problems to joemeek (the Lenovo user) in that frequently the Profire is unrecognized when I start up the computer. I power on my rack power conditioners, and they turn on the profire. Then I turn on the pc, it starts up into windows, but if I try to open the Profire control panel it doesn't recognize the hardware and further, gives me some error ("Cyclic redundancy check" something or other). Funny thing is, when I first installed it -- installed the driver, rebooted, un-installed PTMP 7.1, rebooted, installed PTMP 7.4, rebooted, installed PTMP 7.4cs3 update, rebooted -- everything was fine immediately. Once I worked out the clock issues -- using an RME ADI-8 DS as master clock on ADAT 1, and a Presonus Digimax FS as slave on ADAT 2 -- and configured the input order in the control panel (PTMP only allows 18 inputs so I'm forgoing the ones built into the Profire), I launched PTMP and everything worked great. Was able to immediately track 10 or 11 channels simultaneously into PTMP from the RME and the Digimax. Since that first time though, whenever I turn on the computer the Profire is unrecognized. I got around this yesterday by re-installing the driver, after rebooting everything a couple times didn't work. Today, I was talking the lead singer through things over the phone, and eventually had him unplug the firewire cable while everything was off, replug it, and then turn things back on (profire before pc). This seemed to work for him. I'm guessing this is also just some firewire flakiness -- I'll be checking out what chipset I'm running and maybe I'll try a different PCI card. Despite this problem, I'm loving this so far because of all the i/o. Also, build quality seems decent but QC maybe not so much -- one of the preamp knobs, which are pull-for-pad, pulled right off, and I haven't even used the preamps yet! It didn't break, I think it just wasn't glued right or something (I didn't see a set screw so I guess the knobs are glued on?). Ray, thanks for being around. Good to have some support on the forums! Nick