Mbox 2 + Windows 7 Default Sound Device

Hey everybody,

So i was just wondering if anybody here could help me with this problem.

I have a Digidesign Mbox 2 which i use as my external sound card for music production, i just upgraded from XP to Windows 7 64 bit and while the external sound card works for Pro-tools and my other audio software i cannot set it up as a default playback device. Does anybody know if i can have this as my default playback device (so it windows media player etc. will play sound through it)?

Thanks

Hey, I dont have an answer for you but I was wondering if you might be able to help me out. You seem to be the only person I can find on the net that has been able to get the mbox 2 to work with win7..

So... Firstly the lights dont turn on. So I look at device manager and some of the mbox 2 drivers have exclamations on them(!). Would you be able to let me know where to get a driver that works with win7??

It would be a great help!

Thanks

If it's not showing up in the Control Panel/Hardware and Sound/Sound as a "Playback Device" it probably can't be set. I have a Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 firewire recording interface unit on my Sonar DAW and it works great with Sonar but I can't get it to be recognized or used by anything except Sonar (this is in Win 7 and previously in Vista).

This was just released today, maybe it will help Pro Tools 8.0.3 ? Downloads & Details

As far as i know there were issues with the mbox and windows 7 if you are using the firewire interface but usb seems to work. You can get all the proper drivers off of the digidesign website.

I found out that if you let windows automaticly look for updates for ur driver, in machine control, you will solve your problems

If you download the Digidesign "Audio Drivers setup (x64)" everything will work perfectly:).

I have installed the new drivers and still get nothing.

If the mbox is plugged in when I restart then i get a blue screen or a black screen. If I plug it in after then it simply does not work.

Any ideas. i read about disabling DEp and I am going to try that.

tnahas said:

I have installed the new drivers and still get nothing.

If the mbox is plugged in when I restart then i get a blue screen or a black screen. If I plug it in after then it simply does not work.

Any ideas. i read about disabling DEp and I am going to try that.

No blue screen but now the Welcome screen just spins and spins....

I had this problem also. This is how I fixed it. I uninstalled all devices, checked "delete driver" in prompt. Restart. Installed the 64 bit beta driver. Restart. Installed latest release of the Mbox drivers over the beta. Restart.