Hello


As many i'm interested in buying an Intel Mac, but i couldn't find any list of compatible hardware / software & drivers available or announced

Why not trying to make such a list ? if it gets long enough maybe the moderators could stick it to the top of the forum...

here i begin

LOGIC PRO

Logic Pro 7.2 is set to be released in february 2006 in Universal Binarie

http://www.apple.com/logicpro/crossgrade.html

M-AUDIO

"At the commencement of NAMM, M-Audio posted beta drivers for the entire FireWire-compatible family of products, including FireWire 410, FireWire 1814 and the new ProjectMix I/O. Beta drivers for the Fast Track USB and Fast Track Pro have also been posted to www.m-audio.com. The M-Audio engineering team is actively working on Intel-based Mac support for the remainder of the company’s USB interfaces. "

http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=media.new&ID=644

MOTU

"We plan to release Intel Mac compatible drivers for all of our FireWire and USB audio and MIDI interfaces by January 31st. "

http://www.motu.com/newsitems/atnewsitem.2...1-10.6806188708

NATIVE INSTRUMENTS

Product: Scheduled compatibility:
GUITAR RIG 2nd Quarter 2006
GUITAR COMBOS 2nd Quarter 2006
TRAKTOR DJ Studio 2nd Quarter 2006
KONTAKT 2nd Quarter 2006
ABSYNTH 2nd Quarter 2006
FM7 2nd Quarter 2006
REAKTOR 2nd Quarter 2006
BANDSTAND End of 2nd Quarter 2006
AKOUSTIK PIANO End of 2nd Quarter 2006
B4 End of 2nd Quarter 2006
PRO-53 3rd Quarter 2006
BATTERY End of 3rd Quarter 2006
VOKATOR Until the end of 2006
NI-SPEKTRAL DELAY Until the end of 2006

http://www.nativeinstruments.de/index.php?...?id=intelmac_us

ECHO AUDIO

i've sent an e-mail a 8 days ago, still no answer ...

ALTIVERB

At Audio Ease we are working on support in Altiverb for TDM, Windows, Pro Tools 7, Mac Intel and several new features.

This will all lead up to Altiverb 6. We are not ready yet to disclose its final feature set or pricing scheme, but we need to respond to your upgrade questions.

http://www.audioease.com/cgi-bin/forum/YaB...?num=1131635179

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i have a M-Audio O2 usb midi keyboard and i'm interested to know if it works on Intel Mac (without rosetta)

please add more !

It's pinned, but it doubles with the macintel series in the news

Anyway, if it can help people who overlook the rest of the site the better!

I'm thinking about buying a midi keyboard for use with GarageBand on my new iMac (Intel CPU). Since most of these keyboards are USB, I don't know if they'll work. I suppose they'll need drivers, but I can't find anything on this subject. Does anybody know anything about this?

I'm waiting to hear back on the M-Audio Fast Track USB, also on the PreSonus INSPIRE 1394 Firewire Audio Interface. I'll post when I get a response...

Prosonus was first to respond:

Hello,

The new Intel Mac's have a proprietary OSX that does not fully support our
products yet.

They will, but I have no ETA.

Check our website from time to time for future posts and available
downloads.


Butch Richard
Interface Technical Support

PreSonus Audio Electronics, Inc.

For MIDI controllers, I see that the Edirol PCR-Mxx line has drivers that are compatible with the new Intel Macs. In fact, I'm looking at buying one this weekend if all goes well =)

I am a little bit frustrated with M-Audio. I currently own an Ozone, as well as wanted to buy the M-Powered Pro Tools. However, BOTH are incompatible with the Mac Intel chips. And to add insult to injury, when I contacted tech support about issues with the driver, they informed me that they are working on it but that due to "confidentiality reasons" they couldn't give me a timeframe of when such a driver would be available!

And if THAT wasn't bad enough, I see that they have a compatibility notice saying that M-Powered Pro Tools will not run on the Intel chips as of yet, and that they have not set a date when they anticipate a release.

What a nice response, eh? Basically a public relations way of telling us all to go F ourselves...And by that, I do mean "find" I find that to be really obnoxious - I have a Mac specifically for music production/creation - and if my preferred company (M-Audio) seems to not care so much about getting their stuff to work with new gear, why should I support their efforts in the future? That Edirol is looking better and better.........!

"I find that to be really obnoxious - I have a Mac specifically for music production/creation - and if my preferred company (M-Audio) seems to not care so much about getting their stuff to work with new gear, why should I support their efforts in the future? That Edirol is looking better and better.........!"

It's a whole new platform and it's been out a few weeks. Unrealistic of you to expect instant support from every developer. One reason for delays is that hardly anyone has the new macs, so why bust ass to release updates?

Early adopters get what they deserve. If you can't resist the shiny shiny new thing, you're going to have troubles. It's always been that way and it always will.

M-Audio Firewire Solo has a beta driver available for the iMAC. This is good news.

[QUOTE=BassMule,Feb 10 2006, 14:05]Prosonus was first to respond:
The new Intel Mac's have a proprietary OSX that does not fully support our
products yet.
They will, but I have no ETA.
[QUOTE]

Does this mean that the Firebox I just bought last weekend isn't going to work with the Intel Core iMac I was planning to buy this weekend...at least not until some unforeseeable date in the future?

Please say no...

No doubt, man. I just find it obnoxious that a major company such as M-Audio doesn't have the intelligence to consider developing for a new product that a lot of their customer base would likely purchase...Idiots.

In other news though, I did order that nice Edirol PCR-M80 - I know THAT will work with my new Mac

I personally wouldn't even think about buying a MacIntel for about a year... the current offering of G4 powerbooks & G5s will do just fine & are already compatible with most of what's out there. Funny thing about the computer world: "Never be the first kid on the block with THE NEW TOY" would be a good motto.

It'll settle down in the next month, including the issues occurring in the actual macintel. Always think that the transition in the Audio/MIDI world of macs will take longer than for the iPhoto users

M-audio as the others is facing the same old problem: usually they can't be sure their drivers work for a new PPC computer, so the drivers are tested and if there's problem they correct the drivers and it takes at least a few weeks. This time, it's not minor/major changes in the OS or the hardware platform, it's radical changes and they have to work from the ground on it. Also, to be sure it works, even if they used the development platform issued by Apple in june, they need to test thoroughly with the real thing (iMac intel and macbook) so they do work and it'll come. They simply won't talk a lot until they have an idea of when it's going to be released if they encounter problems

Anyway it's better to stay away from macintels first if you have some real commercial job to do for the time being, or if you're not sure your favorite products are available on the new platform.

Echo Audiofire 8 & 12 are natively compatible with Intel Mac as they are using Mac os X Firewire driver.

extract from e-mail :

"Your AudioFire is already compatible with the macbook pro. The AudioFire uses Apple's built in firewire driver, so every time you update OS X you're actually updating the driver. We haven't had a chance to fully test the AudioFire's performance on an Intel Mac yet, but we have heard that it does work well. We are interested to hear about your experience with the macbook pro and AudioFire8 once you get it."

Same for M-Audio USB midi keyboards.

For the record, both my M-Audio Keystation 61 keyboard and my Firebox have worked with the new iMac without a hitch.

Arturia say 'before summer' - what a bummer

j

Wow. is this thread dead or what? I thought people would still be concerned with who is releasing what for our intel macs seeing as no new macs are shipping ppc. So, am I lost? Is there a new thread that we're all discussing new intel and binary vst and au ?

specifically i was wondering if anyones found a good bass or acoustic piano instrument that i can plug in. And, what the heck is going on with NI? There was so much talk of them to be releasing their intel mac stuff beginning quarter 3.... so where are we at?
Cheers. oh, and if there is a new thread discussing this stuff, i guess i'm blind. could you direct me there? Thanks

TASCAM US-122

Looks like the driver aint any good with the Intel chip yet. I am having problems with audio recording and playback. Worked fine for a month and then got a kernal panic.