Marian Trace Alpha and 64 bit architecture

[quote author=”Joop Krauthausen”]mail them … post it here.. we all benefit!
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I’ve emailed both the American dealer and directly to Mairan’s website. I’ll post when I hear something. Meanwhile…

Here’s the post from September 30 at Marian’s forum:

Dear MARIAN Users,

we agree, the situation of not having 64bit drivers is a very unfortunate one and not at all pleasant. Neither for our customers nor for us. We are very sorry having to announce that the planned release date had to be rescheduled for the first quarter of 2011. Why was this necessary?
The new 64bit driver was planned as a general makeover of the MARIAN driver concept. That was because the changes that had to be applied included fundamental restructuring of the driver making it necessary to rethink it thoroughly. This, admitted, is a project that smaller companies like MARIAN, can not do within a month or two. Especially since other projects came up, the release plan had to be postponed over and over again. What are these other projects? Well, one of the main jobs of a company is keeping itself running. This can only be done with new products. And as much as we like products as e.g. the Marc 8 MIDI (which has been around since 1999!!!) it is sometimes hard to support them over such long time spans. So, currently the resources had also been used to start our new PCIe card series. Because, lets face it, if we don’t sell new products, none of our products will receive any update any more. But, as mentioned in previous posts, WE WILL PUBLISH A 64BIT DRIVER. And it will be a little more than anyone expected. As described above, we a working on a unified driver model – that means, it will be ONE driver for ALL products. Apart from the apparent increase of comfort of the installation process, this is especially interesting for users of several different MARIAN cards, because then it will be possible to use ALL MARIAN SOUNDSYSTEMS with ONE (ASIO) driver. Full clock and Full Start/Stop synchronization ensured! Formerly the multicard operation of different card types was really limited to Windows XP, since the audio structure of windows vista and 7 did not allow for a reliable synchronization of different devices (audio devices). With the new driver, you can use any combination of MARIAN soundsystems perfectly synchronized via the ASIO driver.
Another aspect is, that due to the unified driver design and a common driver source code base, future updates and improvements will be much faster and instantaneously available for all sound systems, at once.

Maybe our faithful customers can accept this preview as a small token and excuse for still having to wait a little more. And maybe they have a little sympathy for a company that also had some trouble in the past caused by the financial and economic crisis – but survived and is currently more active than ever, trying to continue the support that these users expect.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

The MARIAN Team.