This is more a tip for those of you EDIROL M-16DX owners out there who are thinking of upgrading their computer system to the new sparkly Windows 7 operating system. I was a bit cautious about upgrading as my experiences with my previous upgrade to Vista taught me that unless system drivers for your hardware are actually ready, you could end up with some equipment that just won’t work with your new operating system. As my digital mixer is the heart of my recording studio, I was naturally worried, but I needn’t have been.
One of the best features of Windows 7 is something called the Compatibility Troubleshooter. Basically, this allows you to use old Vista (or WinXP) drivers with Windows 7. The idea of this blows the top of my head off and is a feature that I’ve been waiting for for a long, long time. It means that no hardware need ever be made redundant by missing drivers ever again.
In the case of my EDIROL M-16DX, all I did was download the latest 64-bit Vista Drivers from the EDIROL website. Then I right-clicked on the executable file and selected “Troubleshoot compatibility”. The menu will ask you about the previous compatbility of the drivers before doing some tweaks to the executable. Before I knew it, the old Vista drivers were being installed and everything was working perfectly.
Top rate stuff, indeed. Hope this post helps anyone out there who might be having trouble with their Windows 7 setup.
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