On 4/4/10 10:30 AM, Eric Volker wrote:
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Bill Connelly<[email protected]>wrote:
On Apr 3, 2010, at 12:50 PM, Stephen E. Bodnar wrote:
I'm still in Tiger land (10.4.11). I used to have this 2496 card in an
older Quicksilver with the same quirky KaPows (kernel panics). M-Audio
hasn't updated their drivers in a long time, I'm not surprised that they
would have incorrect permissions in Leopard (10.5). I had recently done a
clean install on my G5 after hard drive failure, with no change in KP
behavior - even on a brand new OS install with the most recent drivers.
My solution? I'm going to an external digital audio solution and dumping
the 2496. I sometimes need portable audio and XLR connections.
Unfortunately, USB seems to rule the roost - I would really prefer firewire
and something like the Edirol FA-66, but unfortunately they are hard to
find. I'm looking at the Mbox 2. They seem to be getting really good reviews
and are well supported in the Mac universe. Only problem, they come with Pro
Tools, which is an (Arggggg!) M-Audio product! Garage Band here I come ;-)
Stephen
Hi Stephen (and others on the list)
If you read the other thread "Re: Kernal Panics, Was ...", you'll see the
trouble I just had ... seem to be back up ... til the next kp ...
I'm doing some VHS to DV conversion, and I read along the way that USB
wasn't as good as FW when it comes to real time transfer of data ... USB is
in bursts and FW is more continuous (as I understand it).
Not sure how this applies to audio ... if you're just transferring recorded
data it might be ok ... if you're digitizing audio, its not, as I see it.
But if you're going from today's devices to the Mac, you're already
digitized ...
May have nothing to do with your application ... I had wanted to merge my
Yamaha motif es8 keyboard output, with Sibelius playback, and possibly mix
in my horn recording at a later date. Trying to do this in real time ...
using Sibelius / Keyboard as my accompanist.
All controlled by my Quicksilver 2002 Dual 1GHz tied together by a Mackie
1402 VLZPro mixer ...
Wonder if there's a way we could fix those access / permissions and such?
I had an M-Audio Revolution 7.1 in my Mac for a long time. In my 800MHz
Quicksilver 2002 under older versions of Tiger it worked pretty well.
However, when I got a dual G5 I began having many issues. From what I can
tell, the old M-Audio driver really did not like dual CPUs. I eventually
moved it to a Hackintosh where, against all reason, it worked flawlessly
with a driver whipped up by an amateur hacker. M-Audio does have some new
Leopard drivers available that I haven't tried yet, but I wouldn't expect
much. For my G5, I eventually went with a PCI card that added a PCMCIA slot
to the G5, and plugged in an Echo Indigo IO. It was a bear to set up, but
once up was rock solid - and sounded great too. Note that I am not a
musician nor a sound engineer, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.
Eric
Aha! The dual processor is probably the issue. My old Quicksilver had a
dual CPU upgrade. I just ordered a USB M-Box 2 as a replacement since my
next Mac will probably be an Intel iMac, and I'll use it sometimes with
my wife's MacBook. It will be interesting to see how it behaves with the
dual G5.
Maybe I'll keep the 2496 and get a hackintosh! Do you have a link to the
"amateur" driver? It's probably more professional than what the amateurs
at M-Audio put out.
Stephen
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