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I'm hammering away at an installation and going slightly insane as I'm trying to make it work on scavenged HW. I'm using an m-audio usb audiophile box with the latest drivers and latest max 5.0.7. My goal is to have the pc startup with the exe patch running but the patch doesn't seem to want to run in standalone RT on this system (a p4 2.6 2g ram sp3 future doorstop). I get a "M Audio ASIO FW Driver" dialog box that says "The ASIO sample rate is not supported by one of the USB interfaces! Please check your sync settings in the control panel". Then the 'doze error signature box tells me the offending module is the ad_asio.mxe.

(BTW, selecting other audio drivers bomb and glitch.)

After that crash if I try and open the patch again in 5 (not RT) it crashes the same way until I restart Max and turn audio off then on in the DSP audio setup patch/box. Then Max is back to normal. Its as if trying to run the patch.exe, or a collective in standalone is cursing or changing my driver settings.

I'm on the home stretch here but can't seem to get this to work.

I'm hammering away at an installation and going slightly insane as I'm trying to make it work on scavenged HW. I'm using an m-audio usb audiophile box with the latest drivers and latest max 5.0.7. My goal is to have the pc startup with the exe patch running but the patch doesn't seem to want to run in standalone RT on this system (a p4 2.6 2g ram sp3 future doorstop). I get a "M Audio ASIO FW Driver" dialog box that says "The ASIO sample rate is not supported by one of the USB interfaces! Please check your sync settings in the control panel". Then the 'doze error signature box tells me the offending module is the ad_asio.mxe. 

xp-patch-usually-ok-but-standalone-ad_asio-driver-crashing-yowch

Nevermind- I gave up and used another machine with a delta 44 pci card and it worked fine....

Here are my unscientific findings with old pcs and max/msp 5.0.7 in case any cares- may my misery help someone:

All machines with at least 1g ram and large buffer/latency settings:

fujitsu centrino 1.4 with built in audio and asio 4 all: good

asus p4s533 2.4 p4 maudio delta 44 xp sp1: still a great workhorse

amd 1800+ (p4 2.something equivalent) xp sp2 and 3: didn't work at all

p4 2.6 laptop xp sp3 with built in then tried usb audiophile : not good

rough specs my patch: 1 sfplay, 2 gigaverbs, a gizmo and a groove with one buffer, lots of gains, 10 or so oscillators doing various things, and many counters and metros and 2 pattrstorages with parameter changes happening 1/2 sec to 3 minutes

(this is an installation in an elevator and I'll document it soon for interested people to check out)

Finally, if you think you can get away with old HW and scrapping together an old PC in my experience asus boards with intel processors tend to work well. If you need audio in your patch use a PCI card with good drivers- USB bottlenecks can really hit the CPU and glitch out audio

Nevermind- I gave up and used another machine with a delta 44 pci card and it worked fine.... 

fujitsu centrino 1.4 with built in audio and asio 4 all: good
asus p4s533 2.4 p4 maudio delta 44 xp sp1: still a great workhorse
amd 1800+ (p4 2.something equivalent) xp sp2 and 3: didn't work at  all
p4 2.6 laptop xp sp3 with built in then tried usb audiophile : not good

rough specs my patch: 1 sfplay, 2 gigaverbs, a gizmo and a groove with one buffer, lots of gains, 10 or so oscillators doing various things, and many counters and metros and 2 pattrstorages with parameter changes happening 1/2 sec to 3 minutes
(this is an installation in an elevator and I'll document it soon for interested people to check out)

Finally, if you think you can get away with old HW and scrapping together an old PC in my experience asus boards with intel processors tend to work well. If you need audio in your patch use a PCI card with good drivers- USB  bottlenecks can really hit the CPU and glitch out audio 

xp- patch usually ok but standalone ad_asio driver crashing... Yowch!