Well since I have a "30 day trial" from Sweetwater, I have a good time frame to see if I will avoid the problems many have had. It seems to depend on what chipset one has. After 2 days of testing I have finally got the control panel to open up. I have noticed that BIAB won't play midi with this card. I have just set it to the GS wavetable since I don't really use midi in my final takes.

Also I went all yesterday without RB crashing. The solution to that was to keep the M-Audio control panel closed. As long as the "crackling" that many report doesn't show up in the next 4 weeks, I guess will keep it. The only card I ran across with good Win7/64 drivers seems to be the ESI Juli@ card. Anyone have experience with that one?

Last edited by mnich; 09/23/10 12:26 PM.

AT2020mic> ArtStudioV3VoicedValvePreAmp> M-Audio2496> AMD AthlonII 215 DualCore, 2.7GHz, 5GbDDR3Ram> Win7x64> RealBand>Ozone4> Teac A1D Amp> KRK ST6 Monitors> My old worn out ears