Confirmed Audio Interfaces (Hobbyist/Pro-sumer/Pro) & Drivers - Mac OS X

[B-San]

Oh yeah, I've done two builds featuring the Z87X-UD5 TH and it has given me some issues when using a Thunderbolt-Equipped Apollo. One rig is running Mavericks, while the other Mountain Lion.

Although the Apollo runs fine, it appears that OS X is affected with disappearing Wifi, bluetooth, time/date and spotlight icons disappearing - along with the spotlight icon intermittently flashing.

Also during the initial round of testing, the spotlight keyboard shortcut (cmnd-spacebar) fails to work as well as the screenshot quick-command (cmnd-shfit-4)...

Please refer to the following thread/posts for more details:

http://www.tonymacx86.com/music/127098-universal-audio-apollo-issues-2.html#post800167

 

[im82]

Any recommendations on low latency audio cards either USB 2 or recommendation of a FW800 PCI Card and FW800 solutions. Nothing fancy, but something that works well with Midi/Kontakt/Ableton/Logic Pro?

 

[im82]

I did consider something like this:

http://www.thomann.de/de/esi_maya_44.htm (yes it works natively on the mac)

or this one:

http://www.m-audio.de/audiophile-2496 (think it has midi)

or that one (got midi):

http://www.heise.de/preisvergleich/esi-maya44-xte-a664706.html

 

[B-San]

For top-tier low-latency performance and driver stability, I reccomend the RME AIO PCIe card. It has midi as well.

 

[im82]

http://www.thomann.de/gb/rme_hdspe_aio.htm - 538 Eur... that's out of my league.
What I quite much like is the TOSLINK (optical).

 

[joebingo]

Digi 002 console all working perfectly in PT 11 on my hackintosh. Also, my Presonus firestudio mobile is working flawlessly too

Both running off an Siig firewire PCI card btw (can't remember the model number but it's 2 external and 1 internal)

 

[Barenhvrd]

Be careful with Digi 002 & 003 family as it has the "kernel_task" on CPU issue for now

 

[joebingo]

didn't realise there were any issues, what does that cause Barenhvrd?

 

[Barenhvrd]

on my digi 003 rack, when playing audio (youtube, itunes, or logic for exemple), on the first core of my i7 Kernel_Task hits from 20% to 50%. When the DAW is closed and no audio through, kernel task drops at 4 to 5%.

after some research, real Macs are having the same issue with Mavericks.

The digi 002 & 003 drivers are "for 10.9 and 10.9.1 only" (cf official driver web page), so I might try to downgrade as I am running 10.9.2 to see if it is more stable.

Any of you experienced this?

 

[joebingo]

Just had a look on the duc and it looks like it's a problem with the version 11 driver rather than OS version. There's a guy using pro tools 8 on 10.8.3 who's getting this issue too.

Maybe uninstall the driver and reinstall? It looks like it's an issue between the Avid Driver and Core Audio. Explains why my mbp is getting so hot when PT is open.