Oxygen 8 And Macbook Comunication Problem, cant get midi signal into macbook intel core 2 duo (os 10.4.10) Options

[mordekai]

Hi,

The signal sent from my oxygen8 isnt received from my macbook (intel core 2 duo ox 10.4.10). The weird thing is that the midi controler is recognized, i.e. it is showed active in the "audio midi setup" of the computer, even in the Live 6 "midi preferences", it does recognize the device; but when i press the keys on the oxygen it does nothing and the "midi in " of Live 6 does not lite up nor i can send any signals from the midi controler.
The problem was recreated when connecting to Absynth, but not when conected via usb cable to a hardware sequencer. As to drivers, i have installed the latest driver for my OS. . The old driver didnt work either, and when i had my other mac (powerbook) it worked just fine. So i'm thinking maybe this is a compatibility problem between oxygen and OSX 10.4.10

Arrr, any ideas??

thanks,

P

[Mac Daddy]

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[mordekai]

Macbook Intel and Oxygen 8 are not compatible, or at least that is what the M-Audio tech support said. They say that if you whant tu use oxygen8 with a macbook intel (i dont know about other intel macs) you have to get a usb powered hub. They also told me that that is probable that the hub will solve the communication problem, although is not 100% true.