Still waiting for drivers!

Drivers are the most common question we get about USB products and with so many products coming with some level of digital connectivity now the questions come thick and fast. The main question up until recently has been MAC OS compatibility but with the recent lauch of the much hyped vista OS from Microsoft I have started to do some investigation to find out just how prepared or unprepared the DJ Equipment manufacturers are for Vista compatibility.

lets start with Allen and Heath my favourite manufacturer always up to speed with the technology but as far as I know they still do not have dedicated vista drivers for the XONE:3D , 2D,1D family. The latest set of drivers do not work for Vista!
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Behringers BCD 2000 and 3000 don't show much promise in this area given the huge amount of criticism taken by Behringer over the issues with the compatibility on the BCD2000.(A driver was written by a clever hacker who packet sniffed the USB data to come up with a solution). Behringer have just released the BCD3000 which is a very similar product but has a different colout and now finally full MAC OS support. There is no mention of Vista compatibility and I suspect we may be at the will of the hackers to provide a solution on this one if we want to use in the near future.
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The Vestax VCI-100 has been a long time coming and has from the outset promised full MAC OS Compatibility however no talk os Vista Drivers !(spot the common theme!)
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The only Controller I have found that has Vista drivers as standard is the Hercules MK2.


One thing to note is also that the MI Industry seems to be a bit ahead of the traditional DJ Equipment manufacturers as ever with the likes of Roland and Edirol announcing upgrades to many of there products including the UA-1EX.
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I have sent of some questions to a number of the manufacturers asking questions on ETA's for new drivers and will post any news as I get it.