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Need help getting started writing/hacking audio device drivers
I have a DJ mixer that houses a very nice firewire audio card. Unfortunately the company refuses to release x64 drivers for it, and it doesn't look like that's going to happen either as they've just discontinued the unit.
I'm a software engineer by trade, and I know with enough effort I can craft my own. Trouble is, it's a whole new field for me to explore and I don't really know where to start. I've read through the Windows Driver Development Kit here:
About the Windows Driver Kit (WDK)
and also read up how windows USB drivers were hacked for the Xbox Kinnect:
Hacking the Kinect - How to hack USB device drivers
both have given me some great ideas, but I don't want waste time barking up the wrong tree, so to speak.
So for those of you that have experience with this kind of thing, can you suggest any websites or books that will get me off to a good start? If I were an x86 Assembly master, I suppose I could simply disassemble the x86 driver .dll that is available for the unit and craft the 64-bit friendly code from there. Unfortunately, I only have real experience with higher level languages.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
A77