help installing the drivers for Mackie Spike on Vista OS
Thank you for the tutorial but I haven't been able to get it to work yet.
My complaints the Mackie Spike (even though the copyright on the box says 2004 Mackie was selling through most of 2006): Of course, the Mackie Spike drivers still fail to install as of August 2007 (look at the date of this posting). Mackie tech support says that the product is discontinued which implies that no, they don't plan on developing Windows Vista compatible drivers. Sure, the hardware is built to last, but the Windows XP computer I had broke because it wasn't built to last as long as the Mackie gear. Hopefully the Mackie team will get that when software is included in a product, it is part of the 'built to last' equation, and that if the software is not continued to be maintained and supported then the resale value value will go down since the product will then be outdated. The other affect of this is that customers will be wary about buying products that are from a company that doesn't fully support them in their software component no matter how excellent the hardware is.
Trying to install the Mackie Spike drivers in Windows Vista:
I downloaded a version of Orca and it won't open the .exe files nor any of the other Spike driver files from here:
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How do you get them to open? Drag and drop doesn't work. Open file doesn't work. I am using Orca version 3.1.4000.2049
So I tried the freeware: Advanced Installer which does make things out of the Spike .exe files that install. But when I connect the Mackie Spike it still asks for the driver and first can't find it, then it can't install it after taking a few minutes to automatically look for it, which is not skippable (why not Microsoft Dev. Team - please let me choose to skip the automatic driver search because it sucks having to wait and not being given the choice to skip it.)
So I tried ASIO4All and that doesn't seem to work either
ASIO4ALL - Universal ASIO Driver because when I plug in the USB cable it still can't find the driver and then can't install it. "failed"
If someone could help me figure this out then awesome, I will be grateful.
If the Mackie Team decided to make their software built to last in conjunction with their hardware then that would be awesome too.
If the Windows Vista Dev. Team decided to make the the Install as a previous version work better then I would praise that also.
Thanks.
T.C.