MRCC Firmware Release 1.1.095

[Darryl]

I just loaded the new firmware, right off the bat the mrcc names for A/B/C/D are not recognized by the computer, so I have downgraded as I can't test my dual mrcc setup with names that can't be recognized, it breaks all of my computer Bome network routings. Ableton projects with saved routings, and the names are not matching settings when viewed inside DAWs. Let me know if you get that sorted and I can try again.

There are some complexities when it comes to USB device naming. The operating system will cache the USB device names, so you can't just change the name setting and see the change. When the firmware is updated, it might see the MRCC as a new device and that's what messes up the naming. On Windows, there are a couple of ways to clear that cache, then get the OS to learn the new name after a reboot, so the name you select will be learned after a reboot. 

I thought I wrote up some instructions for that somewhere but can't find it at the moment. I'll take a look when I'm in the office next week, or write new instructions in an FAQ and post it here. Otherwise, there's nothing in the new firmware that should affect that USB device naming, but we did update the USB device firmware to the latest version, so it could be something unexpected is happening. We'll check it out.

ok, thanks for the reply, if you recall, we had this issue before and an update was made to address it. The prior issue was the device name would not match settings and when network or port routings were made, they would have to be redone every power up due to the device name not populating correctly in Mac os

We've been looking into the USB device naming some more. We didn't change anything that should have effected it's functionality, however, what we did before was a change to address a race condition. It's possible that the new libraries caused the condition to worsen. We took a deep dive into the USB device code and came up with a better solution for dynamically setting the USB device name which completely eliminates the race condition. We should be ready to post that here later this week.