The Saffire Pro 40 is a rack mount unit and I was able to install it in my recording rack with other gear including a 6 channel Rolls headphone amp. I used the Alesis with my desktop for a recording interface when I had Vista 32 bit, but it wasn't 64 bit compatible (until recently) and il I replaced it with the Saffire Pro40 which is 64 bit compatible (and much better and eaiser to operate than the Alesis). I have an Alesis io26 firewire recording interface that I'm going to try and set up with the laptop. It has a firewire port on it, but I haven't tried it out yet. I have an Acer laptop that I upgraded to Windows 7 32 bit Home Premium that I'm going to configure for a "portable" recording system. But, the recording session is relatively simple as it's a singer that will be using backup tracks so I can import the Karaoke backup tracks to Sonar and then all I really need to worry about is the voice track. One guy claimed you need to get the right Firewire card to get it to work. I've heard mixed things, some people have gotten it to work fine, some people were absolutely disgusted with Mackie for dropping support. Fortunately, I still have Vista 64 bit and Sonar 8 (installed on a separate hard drive) that I can fall back to if I run into problems on the recording session. I have Windows 10, and I'm not sure about driver compatibility. I have a recording session scheduled this morning so that will be the "acid test" to see if everything is going to work OK. The Guitar Rig 4 and other add-ons that came with Sonar 8.5 Producer all work, as far as I can tell. I have a Frontier "Tranzport" wireless DAW controller and Frontier has Windows 7 64 bit drivers so that was not a problem either. I had the Firewire issue I noted with my Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 recording interface, that was resolved. I have Sonar 8.5 Producer version and that was advertised as "Windows 7 64 bit compatible". So far, all of my recording software and hardware are working OK. Actually, it was a new install on a separate hard drive since I went from Vista 64 bit Home Premium to the Windows 7 64 bit Professional (can't "upgrade" the exisiting OS because of the different versions). I have upgrded my Desktop to Windows 7 64 bit Professional. Reinstalling the chipset drivers, which define what devices are on the motherboard is another potential item. If it's disabled in the BIOS you will get the Code 10. Check the BIOS in case there is something in there that enables or disables the firewire port. I would try to get the Firewire port problem resolved before upgrading as you may still have the problem after upgrading.
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