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M-Audio and Tiger

I've got the M-Audio USB midisport 8x8 midi interface.

It has been my TIGER experience that I need to re-install the "driver" every day because otherwise there is no midi communication between my midi devices and my software sequencers ( e.g DigitalPerformer 4.5.2 ).

When I look at the Audio Midi Setup the midisport/midi devices are greyed out. When I re-install the M-Audio driver all is OK and I get midi communication.

This is rather strange becuase the midisport is an M-Audio product.

I am using the current availbe M-Audio driver.

I sure don't have that problem in Panther.

I have a firewire 410, dual 1.8 g G5, OSX 10.4

I just got through talking to the supervisor of tech support at M-Audio and he says the driver updates for Tiger could happen as soon as a couple of days or a week or two. It turns out Apple dropped the ball by giving them a different release of Tiger than the retail release, and so they are having to do regressive testing on the drivers. He assured me they are working as quickly as possible and considers it a top priority.
Since there have been extensive changes in the BSD subsystems of OSX, loading your previous drivers could be a mixed bag.

Thanks fabulousray for providing me that info update.

It sure is a pain in the studio to re-install that M-Audio USB midisport 8x8 midi interface driver.

And if M-Audio could also update the driver for their audiophile 2496 PCI card this guy will be very happy.

Hey, no problem macmidiguy, glad to be of service! I think I'm gonna wait for the update or until the new versions of Onyx and Diskwarrior, two very essential mac maintenance utilities, for 10.4 come out. It is very frustating to not have this capacity at my fingertips, as I am sure it is for you and most Tiger users at the moment.[COLOR=orange][COLOR=blue]

I can hardly wait for Diskwarrior 3.0.3 (free download update ) to be issued soon according to their www site and an email I received from their tech guy.

At the moment I am using Cocktail and Macaroni for my daily maintenance plus TechToolPro. So far I have not had to use TechToolPro to rebuild TIGER'S directory.

I'm running 10.4 with M-Audio 2496 driver version 2.01 and had no problems at all...

This post has been edited by cidsinga: Thu 12 May 2005, 23:16

dual 1.8 G5 Firewire 410 Tiger driver

Go to the website and download Firewire_OSX_1.5, which says on the site is an update for OSX 10.3.8 & 10.3.9, and then open the installer. The installer states this update is good for the OSX versions listed PLUS 10.4 and above. No problems with the driver!!! Works like a dream!
It turns out M-Audio's webmaster must be a total moron, because the website still states the firewire drivers are still in development.

Firewire_OSX_1.5 is the current driver for 10.4 TIger!!!!!!!

M-Audio have issued a "Tiger' version for their Audiophil 2496 PCI card and that driver works.

I am still waiting for M-Audio to fix their USB MIDISport 8 x 8 driver. As I noted previously the version they have works if I re-install it every time I want to use my 8 x 8 MIDISport.

This post has been edited by macmidiguy: Sat 28 May 2005, 03:05

I am using the 1.5 driver with a firewire 410 on a dp2.3 G5 running 10.4.1 with no problems at all.............now if only Steinberg can get Halion player to stop crashing I'll be really happy