windows 7 32 bit. Mlan 01x, I88x. Setup and enable 64Gb Ram

[Geir]

Hi!

After reading through the forums, I see that many off you guys and girls are having big issues geting the mlan driver working in Vista 64 bit, Windows 7 64 bit, some in xp 64 bit and some in windows 7 32 bit.

So to give you all a headsup.
Windows 7 and Vista 64bit wont work with the xp 64 bit driver. Yes you may get some sound out of it, but it will be crakel and dropout at best. And to install the driver you have to go through allot of steps to avoid 64 bit driver signing etc...

Xp 64 bit driver won't work properly with a quad-core cpu. So if you have quad don't bother...

The only driver that works cross platforms is the 1.63 32 bit driver.

Xp 32 bit as we all know works perfect, but the 4Gb (3,5Gb) limitation of ram is the big setback and the way xp writes to disk slows down your computer (if you use disks with low writhing cache or ssd).

Vista 32 bit works great, but dosen't like big memory load. So using synths like "East West Colossus" will get your system unstable and with the 4Gb (3,5Gb) limitation you won't eaven get to load some of the instruments

And then we have Windows 7 32 bit. It is not supported by Yamaha/mlan. Will never be... But the good news is that the driver 1.63 32bit works as good as it does in xp and eaven bether than in Vista.

So if you want to upgrade your os, Windows 7 32bit is the way to go.

Yes I know the ram limitation. Well who says that win 32bit only can load 4gb of ram? answer: Windows.
I say no

Here is how to setup Mlan in windows 7 32bit and patch to 64Gb memory use (No need to go 64 bit to get more ram).


Install windows 7 32bit

1. After install, go to start, computer right click, properties, device manager, IEEE 1394 Bus host controllers, select your firewire card/port right clik and select update driver. Hit browes my computer and select let me pick from a list... Select the legacy driver.
2. Go to start, control panel, system and security, change user account control setting, slide the slider to the bottom.
3. Install as normal

And now to enable the 64Gb of ram in Windows 7 32bit

You need to get a patch.

Go to this link: http://www.unawave.de/windows-7-tipps/32-bit-ram-barrier.html?lang=EN

Read and follow instructions. It is easy and works 100%

My system is Asus delux V2 X58, I7 930, 12Gb ram
01X, I88x, I88x, Uad-2, Uad-1, Uad-1 and Powercore pci-e
Cubase 5.5.1

Hope you all will finde what you need in this post. And it is nice to finaly have proper amount of memory needed for music

Geir

[MH77]

Hi,

I´ve tried my very best but I´m failed.
I have used the patch to enable the RAM, that was very easy and a very good stuff. Thanks a lot!
Then I installed the mLan 1.6.3 driver. That works fine with the Audio but I´ve got a serious trouble with the Midi connection.
So I can´t use the remote function. All Midi-channels are visible in the graphic patchbay but i can´t connect the Cubase with the 01x.
I get an data reception error (0002) and everything becomes usual when i close the Cubase session.
It´s the noname onboard firewire controller, maybe? The board is an Asus P5Q.

How did you make it work? Do you use a special fw-controller, or did I something wrong?

greets, MH
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2x Yamaha 01x, Tapco S5, Art Pro Channel, HK TubeMan, einige Softsynths & Sampler

[jukeboxXfreak]

Hi Everybody!

i also take the same way like MH77 to get m-lan working on Win 7 32 Bit without reading this post.
there are no problems with mlan on win7.

greets
jukeboxxfreak

[MusicJohn]

Can someone confirm then that the old mlan driver for XP for x86 works in W7 x86 ? I know it is not supported but by the descriptions made in this topic, it appears the mlan midi functionality does not work unless some sort of W7 driver signing hacking gets involved?

It is such ashame that there still is no proper newer hardware replacement of the 01X functionality - the MR816CSX, CC121 , n12 are all great sounding but are totally different in concept to the 01X integration capabilities.

Imagine having a unit with the sound quality of the MR816 channel strips/word clock and pre-amps but also with motorised faders, LCD display, and full customiseable DAW controls - maybe Steinberg/Yamaha will finally come out and deliver something that will match the SSL Nucleus functionality and convince old mlan users to upgrade to something worthwhile?
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PC i7-930, GByte X58-UD5 rev1, 6Gb ram 1600mhz, Win7(x64) OS, Cubase 5.5(x86), N12 mixer, MR816x, CC121, HS80M monitors,KX-61,01X, AW2400+mLAN, Sequel2, Wavelab Studio 6