PreSonus has announced the release of a new FireStudio Driver (ver 3.3) for the FireStudio 26x26 FireWire recording system.

New Features of the new FireStudio Driver:

• Expanded Mix Mode – Replaces DAW returns 11-18 with ADAT 2 1-8 for a total of 26 inputs in all 9 stereo mixers.
• 24 Quick route to monitors - Direct routing to Monitors and Phones from the mixer page.
• Auto route to monitors - Auto routes currently selected Mix tab to the user choice of Monitors or Headphones.

Driver Improvements

• Windows
  • Phase alignment when locking to external clocks has been further improved.
  • Improved ASIO performance, particularly on multi-core systems.
  • 26 simultaneous inputs and outputs
  • ASIO streaming performance on Vista has been improved.
  • ASIO clients are now allowed to change the buffer size using the ASIO API, but only if there are no other ASIO clients open.
  • Improved support for the WASAPI driver mode in Vista.
  • Added support to the ASIO driver's API so that an ASIO host can indicate that it will not attempt to change any parameters and therefore should not affect parameter locking.
• Mac OSX
  • The operation mode settings available on OS X have been updated to match the settings available on Windows. On both platforms there are four modes available: Normal, and Safe Mode Levels 1 to 3.
  • Driver Installer modified to install without reboot.