Presonus Firepod (FP10) won't work completely in w7 pro

[deeaa]

Hey,

I have a Presonus Firepod and latest 64-compatible drivers for it...and it works just fine in recording/audio programs, ASIO etc. and shows up in Windows just fine...

BUT windows won't play any audio through it other than via ASIO in the said programs. No system sounds, game sounds, nothing.

All the soundcard inputs and such show in Windows sound ctrl panel fine, look OK, no problems, BUT when I try to press 'test' or anything, it just reports that this hardware is being used by another application and please turn off the process first. It doesn't matter if it's set to default audio device or if there are other audio devices present.

Once I did all of a sudden manage to get it to sound, and it played via mediaplayer etc. just fine...but upon next boot, nothing. Again, used by another application.

Right now I've worked around the problem by using the internal Realtek card for windows/games sounds and just use headphones with them, but certainly it'd be easier to be able to use the presonus for also windows sounds, not only on audio programs, like it used to be in Xp.

 

[torrentg]

It has S/PDIF ins and outs along with multiple mix buses, so do this:

Connect a cable straight from S/PDIF out to S/PDIF in.

Use S/PDIF as default device under Windows. Point all software to output to S/PDIF.

Make S/PDIF in a mix, one of the inputs toward your "normal" outputs.

Problem solved.

PS - check my sound card specs.

 

[deeaa]

Hello, thanks for the reply!

However, I'm not sure how to do that...I don't see SPdif in the windows sound devices list at all. It shows six instances of 'Speakers: PreSonus FirePod WDM Audio, Ready' on the playback side and 5(!) instances of LIne In PreSonus FirePod WDm Audio, Ready, but there's no info which is which and if I try to test them, it says:

'The device is being used...'

In Devicemanager it shows as PreSonus 11.9.2007 driver version 2.46.0.0, that's it.

So the problem is I can't tell between the card inputs and outputs in windows which is which and it won't let me test which is which, or select SPDIF...no sound is coming from any output as far as I can tell, except once it for some reason worked for one boot and then the audio was gone again. It was the fourth 'speaker' that played sound then.

Funny, because it works in Cubase etc. with no problems.

 

[torrentg]

Look for some setting like this in your interface software (Wave RT) and enable if you find it. It's another method to acheive Windows' sounds over normal output:

 

[deeaa]

Hello,

No luck...this is all I have:

 

[deeaa]

And this is how windows shows it, no spdif, nothing:

 

[deeaa]

...and this is what it says if I try to do anything to the soundcard settings in windows:

 

[torrentg]

Ya that's a normal error. Try closing all media players or anything to do with sound. Check task manager for any hanging.

As far as the outputs go - right click on one and choose to show disconnected devices and/or show disabled devices.

 

[deeaa]

Ya that's a normal error. Try closing all media players or anything to do with sound. Check task manager for any hanging.

As far as the outputs go - right click on one and choose to show disconnected devices and/or show disabled devices.

There shouldn't be anything concerning sound going on. No running apps or hangs either...just did a clean windows install yesterday so it's pretty empty still.

I have show disabled and unused devices ticked, but that's all it shows anyway. Six counts of firepod audio devices ready, no spdif, nothing else, but 'test' and such just give 'used by another device' and marking any of them as default sound devices causes all mediaplayers to report something like 'error playing' or whatever.

Still works in Cubase etc. I guess I just must accept that Presonus cards don't work in 64bit win7.

 

[brandonjp]

I have show disabled and unused devices ticked, but that's all it shows anyway. Six counts of firepod audio devices ready, no spdif, nothing else, but 'test' and such just give 'used by another device' and marking any of them as default sound devices causes all mediaplayers to report something like 'error playing' or whatever.

Still works in Cubase etc. I guess I just must accept that Presonus cards don't work in 64bit win7.

@deeaa - There is HOPE!! I went through the same thing the last few weeks. Ableton Live and Sony Vegas played audio fine, but my Windows system audio just WOULD NOT work...THEN....

Tonight I just stumbled across the solution...thanks to AndyPanda on the PreSonus Forums:

Windows audio will only work if the bit rate is 48K - so if your DAW uses a different bit rate, you'll have to use the Presonus Control to set it back to 48 after you quit your DAW - otherwise Windows will complain that the device is in use by another app.

PreSonus Forums - View Single Post - Windows 7 Firepod driver problems


So - Just open up the Firepod / FP10 Control Panel and select a Sample Rate of 48.0 kHz. You don't even have to unplug or restart or anything. Within seconds everything worked for me.

Good luck!
--bp

 

[deeaa]

Thanks BrandoJP...it almost worked this way for me too!

When I change to 48Khz it does stop bugging me about 'being used by another app' and will play the test tone OK but for some reason I don't hear it. It is possible I have set the levels of the output that is the correct one too low.

BUT at any rate, it won't then work in audio programs which in turn start to complain about device being used by another app - and apparently upon returning to the Firebox control panel, it had reverted to 41.1 by itself and now there was no sound at all anywhere but I guess upon reboot the sounds will return to the way they were.

It's not such a big deal anyway, as long as ASIO works in proper audio programs, I can always use another soundcard and headphones for games and yet another for Skype etc. the only thing that bugs me is I need to open anything I want to listen to in Cubase and can't use mediaplayer, VLC etc. if I want to use speakers, not headphones.

But I guess one day there will be better drivers available. I have two other friends with Firepods as well who bought them as per my recommendation, so I'm feeling a bit responsible for their systems as well & have told them to stick with Xp for a little longer now.

 

[fireberd]

I'll have to try that with my Focusrite Saffire Pro 40. It works great with Sonar but that's all.

 

[trikolad]

@deeaa - There is HOPE!! I went through the same thing the last few weeks. Ableton Live and Sony Vegas played audio fine, but my Windows system audio just WOULD NOT work...THEN....

Tonight I just stumbled across the solution...thanks to AndyPanda on the PreSonus Forums:


PreSonus Forums - View Single Post - Windows 7 Firepod driver problems


So - Just open up the Firepod / FP10 Control Panel and select a Sample Rate of 48.0 kHz. You don't even have to unplug or restart or anything. Within seconds everything worked for me.

Good luck!
--bp

THANK YOU!!!!!!
This solved my problem today with windows 10 cubase 6 and presonus firepod