Originally, it was intended to provide an alternative to Alesis' proprietary FST/Connect software for Linux, but the scope of the project has extended since. HD24tools now runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac. The FST format is proprietary. Alesis, Fireport, Alesis' original HD24 connectivity product. Seems to be modelled after.
I need help with running my alesis fireport 1394 with windows 7 Either use the legacy drivers for your 1394 interface or do as I did and just download HD24 Tools program until Alesis makes a device that works on modern operating systems! Roland SI-24 updates & remote controll files For reference sakes: The nessesary downloads for the Roland Studio Package Pro II users with the SI-24 remote controller & the RPC-1 (based on M-audio R-BUS card) is scattered all over the net.
I'm trying to narrow down the source of the problems i'm having connecting to an external device. COMPUTER: G4 powerbook / 1.5GHz / 512MB DDR / DVD-R / firewire port included shipped with 10.3.7, updated to 10.3.9 DEVICE: alesis fireport 1394 - connects the back of the IDE drives used in the alesis HD24 hard disk recorder to firewire. Comes with its own software called FSTconnect, which allows your computer to see the tracks as.WAV files and transfer them back and forth. PROBLEM: upon launching the program on my laptop, whether the device is connected or not, i get the immediate error 'can't load IEEE-1394 driver: ALSDRVR.INF.' Although the driver name would suggest to me this is something the alesis software should have installed, alesis tech support said that perhaps this is a firewire driver that should have been installed but was skipped. However, although i've never tried any other firewire device connection with my laptop as the master, i have used it in firewire drive mode many times.
In addition i can't find any such driver on my G5 at work, which i connect via firewire to with no problems. I appreciate replies from anyone with perspective on this, whether they have experience with this alesis device or not. Thanks in advance.
Yeah, i thought that name sounded strange. Even moreso when i noticed the only files with that extension i could find on a mac were microsoft office-related. Although to me there are windows-ish sounding files used on mac OSX (i've only switched from OS9 last april), so i was giving it the benefit of the doubt. To confuse matters more, their drive is not windows, it's a proprietary format called FST. Obviously the files used are similar though.
Now i'm sure the alesis is the culprit - it turns out my recorder doesn't have the latest version of the firmware (1.20), even though it came out in 2004 and i bought mine in late 2005. This would affect the drive as well.
It makes sense now - their mac software can't load the driver, not because it's not on the mac, but because it's expecting it to be on the IDE drive. Thanks for pretty much confirming my suspicions. Nice to have something else to reply with next time i talk to a tech.
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