Problem solved.
All down to the midi port on the sound card unit. Looks like either I have a faulty midi out (highly doubtful) or there is an incompatibility between the Focusrite Liquid Saffire 56 and the MFC.
I took the unit to a friends house, and bang, updated first time with no problems at all on standard MIDI OX settings - using an m-audio fast track pro lol. Hours of trouble shooting later, it does kill me but i'm used to working with that sort of thing in IT.
If anybody else has updated successfully from a focusrite product I would be very interested to hear from you. Otherwise, it might be an idea to get a potential incompatibility in the wiki.
Looks like either I have a faulty midi out (highly doubtful) or there is an incompatibility between the Focusrite Liquid Saffire 56 and the MFC.
If anybody else has updated successfully from a focusrite product I would be very interested to hear from you. Otherwise, it might be an idea to get a potential incompatibility in the wiki.
I used to have bigtime midi related issues with the Focusrite Saphire 40 (ans 24) and the Standard. I think Focusrite midi implementation is to blame.
I had the same experience with my windows based laptop tried for hours.... took it upto my studio using an old PPC mac and Snoize through sound card and midi cable... straight on and updated ..
Can you not get to Mac, hope this may help
dont use my PC to update the MFC it wasnt working..
cheers..