Drivers Yamaha 01x Gearslutz
It is not only your computer that is aging. We sure have appreciated having you as a customer, and will regret that you have decided not to continue to purchase Yamaha products in the future. However, it is curious, at least to me, that while you seem to understand that your computer is aging but you hold your music gear to a different standard. Undoubtedly, and obviously, your 01X and other Yamaha products are aging (losing their usefulness) at a much slower pace than your computer is… so you do recognize Yamaha’s build quality.
The mLAN protocol was designed to work with the computers that existed in 2003 That is when the 01X and Motif ES hit the market. Undoubtedly, you can still get years of use of them - that is how Yamaha designed and built them. If you continue to use the computer OS that can run the driver, they will continue to serve you. And this still is a viable solution for you (and while not perfect, because we do recognize you want to use your computer for other things other than music)… and that really is the breaking point in all of this. Your 01X and mLAN products continue to function and do what they were designed to do - MUSIC. Actually, you can still purchase new computers with older Operating Systems (why? because the computer industry realizes that for certain things these older OS’s were more robust and are still useful for many customers.
The desktop replacement LAPTOP was simply not popular enough… it was virtually driven from the market by your mobile (light-weight, long battery-life) computer - which quite frankly were horrible at doing music audio. If you, like many others, dedicated a computer just for music purposes you can easily continue to use your mLAN gear until it totally falls apart in about 2035 (Undoubtedly you are updating your aging computer for reasons other than making music… the whole 64-bit thing is still just settling down . it offers no big advantages for the external hardware of the mLAN devices you have from Yamaha… it may help you run 96 instances of some plug-in, however. So your purchase of a new computer, while understandable will negate you using the mLAN hardware. That is the current situation.
These things are not completely under Yamaha’s control when it comes to the computer you have selected to use and the operating systems the manufacturers put it them. mLAN evolved several times between 2003 and 2007. It has now evolved to a much easier to use (and much less computer-taxing) protocol. this transition took place between 2007 and 2010. In reality, very few people took advantage of the potential 100 audio channels and 256 MIDI channel capability of the basic mLAN Network… so plans to *expand* that to much larger system designs that were on the drawing boards, simply never happened. mLAN evolved to a peer-to-peer system where each node (device) communicates directly with the computer. Although you can daisy chain multiple devices each device sets up a peer-to-peer relationship with the computer.
Yamaha 01x Mlan Driver for Windows 7 32 bit, Windows 7 64 bit, Windows 10, 8, XP. Uploaded on 4/1/2019, downloaded 6878 times, receiving a 79/100 rating by 4251 users. It looks like I could expand one of those Yamaha 01X boards or something like it to have 24 channels of ADAT using expansion cards, but then I am getting into the $2000 range. Note that I have a Cubase setup that I'm not using because I hate staring at computers (that's what I do for work).
This allows for much more “cost effect” computers to work for musicians (who always seemed to want to get the most affordable computer that would work, and we understand). So mLAN evolved- it had to evolve. In the meantime, the two major computer platforms went through their changes… as well. (With little or no attention paid to the music-making clientele).
While you would be hard pressed to run any software you purchased in 2003 on a computer you purchase in 2011, we understand that you fully expect to use your Yamaha music hardware. And I’m sure it was in the plan to have this happen - but, sadly, it simply was not to be. Very sorry about that. Simply too many factors out of the immediate control of Yamaha. That is not to say that in the future such a driver may indeed happen - I do not know, I have no way of knowing what is in the plan. I couldn’t say even if I did know. Not sure where in the world you are located but you can certainly contact the Yamaha representatives in your country and address your concerns to them…
Thank you for your support in the past. We’d love to have as a Yamaha customer in the future but if you have decided to go a different direction - we wish you well. If there is anything I can do to help you, just ask.
The digital audio data inside your computer would be converted first to analog by the audio interface then it would be playback to your audio mixing console. The audio mixing engineer can then mix the analog audio signals using the console and apply important analog effects such as EQ, compression and reverb.
Finally the final mix would either be bounced back to hard drive or in a DAT.
If you are using a mixer to do out of the box mixing, make sure it has adequate input channels and the mixing console has a good sound for audio mixing. OF course, this is not a small mixer. You need a large mixing console to do this (some could be very expensive like the Neve consoles).
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4.) Quality is more important the price itself but not too much. I mean if you can afford and you get the quality you want, then go for it. Just do not exceed on buying the most expensive ones but the quality level is just the same.
5.) Check for the number of inputs, Xenyx 502 got 5 inputs (mono), and it is enough for me. The higher the number of inputs the better, but buy only something you need. If you buy many inputs but you use only one most your time. It is wasted.
Mixing out of the box or tracking with a mixing console definitely requires a high number of inputs (16-channels or even more).
6.) Check for warranty.Make sure your product is protected by warranty in case of early damage.
7.) Check for wide applicability and versatility. This means, at the same I can use my mixer to:
a. Record sound
b. Record sound while I can monitor using a lot of headphones.
c. Can shift to headphone or to the loud monitor (there is a switch)
d. Has clipped detector
e. Has trim function ( gain, very important in recording if you are not using a direct box)
f. Stereo main output
This implies that if you are planning to use your mixer for a wide variety of applications, it make sense to buy a fully featured or big mixing console.
8. You should fully understand the manual first before buying anything, to measure its applicability.
Illustration: Best Mixer/Firewire for Adobe Audition- Yamaha 01X or Mackie Onyx 1620
Someone ask me this question:
Hi,
As a fan of your website, I learn a lot from reading; I want to buy a mixer with firewire to use with Adobe Audition.
My choice is to these two: Yamaha’s 01X and Mackie Onyx 1620.
Can you advise me what I do best to use…Thanks in advance,
My Reply:
First, I am not a user of either of the two nor have any experiences working with them. So use this information at your own risk. The only way I can help you is to supply the facts regarding what would be the best mixer with Firewire interface for Adobe Audition based on the two above choices. OK let’s assess based on the following factors:
1.) Known compatibility with Adobe Audition
2.) Price
3.) Citations from Audio Professional Websites
Yamaha 01x:
Yamaha 01x
Image Credits: Yamaha USA
Mackie Onyx 1620:
Image credits: Sound on Sound
First Factor: Known Compatibility with Adobe Audition
Drivers Yamaha 01x Gearslutz 10
Data with sources
Yamaha’s 01X: bit.ly/hZ0aMh
Mackie Onyx 1620: bit.ly/dWKFlU
Results: Browsing through the results, there are only a few users that successfully confirmed Yamaha 01x working well with Adobe Audition. One particular result such as this reported as having successfully integrate Yamaha 01x with Adobe Audition 3 with no real problems. Although the user pointed out that Adobe Audition recognizes that mixer as “Mackie”. However, you can see a lot of successful users of Mackie Onyx 1620 using along with Adobe Audition.
This link also shows another user that successfully integrates the Mackie Mixer with Adobe Audition.
Conclusion: With so many users reporting successful integration of Mackie Onyx 1620 mixer with Adobe Audition- Mackie Onyx 1620 mixer wins the compatibility factor.
Second Factor: Price
The average price of Yamaha’s 01X is around $1000 as I’ve seen on this search result. But on this search result, it looks like this product has already been discontinued. These are also confirmed in these pages as well:
Yamaha 01X mLAN music production studio
FireWire Mixers
And even the official Yamaha page. This makes it hard to purchase this product. I cannot even see it in Amazon and eBay as well as in the Musician friend search page for Yamaha. However for Mackie Onyx 1620i Firewire recording mixer, you can buy it at $821.66 for new and around $550 dollars for used product.
Conclusion: Mackie Onyx 1620i wins in terms of price and availability.
Third Factor: Citations from Audio Professional Websites
Yamaha 01X
Data are estimates, values can change in time.
Sound on Sound = 3360 results
Home Recording = 137 results
GearSlutz = 246 results
Recording org = 34 results
Total: 3777
Mackie Onyx 1620
Yamaha 01x Mlan
Sound on Sound = 2,380 results
Home Recording = 430 results
Gearslutz = 1750 results
Recording org = 82 results
Total: 4642
Conclusion: Mackie Onyx 1620 does have a lot of citations which means it has a lot of users in the audio recording community compared to Yamaha 01X. This makes it possible for you to easily find a support whether it will be in the forum or any audio forum websites.
Yamaha 01x Mlan
FINAL RECOMMENDATION: Based on the above examination of available data, I can recommend that Mackie Onyx 1620 is a much suitable mixer with firewire support for Adobe Audition. You can buy Mackie Onyx 1620 at Amazon
Note before you buy: You need to read the specs and manual thoroughly and carefully, as it offers useful information whether the number of channels are right for you, or if those softwares included and outputs are compatible with your operating system. It also gives you a glimpse whether the mixer is actually the right one for your recording environment aside from those 3 factors evaluated previously. You can read the specs of Mackie Onyx 1620 here.
Content last updated on October 12, 2012