Hackintosh Apollo Twin Usb

[misteryannis]

Hello Guys and congrats for your wonderful forum, just wanted to know if my apollo twin usb (normally for pc, but i am on my pc using hackintosh) could work in my hackintosh actually on osx sierra ? Are kexts existing for this ?

Thanks for your replies .

[nawcom]

No, doesn't look like it. There are OS X drivers for the original Apollo Twin that connects through Thunderbolt but not USB. I can't even find Apollo Twin USB support in Linux just to see if someone reverse-engineered a driver so it seems you're out of luck with this device

[misteryannis]

Thanks nawcom for your reply, I am very disappointed cos I made my hackintosh in order to use logic with my soundcard . If I tried with thunderbolt drivers, it will not work ?

[nawcom]

Thunderbolt is basically PCI Express through a cable and has nothing to do with USB, so no.

 

You could use it with Windows running on a virtual machine within OS X through something like VMware or VirtualBox, but you'll still be limited to Windows apps interacting with it. So no Logic Pro

[misteryannis]

and is there a way that i install a pci thunderbolt card in my pc with a usb to thunderbolt adaptator ?

 

Is it a way that it works ?

[nawcom]

No it's not how it works. Those Thunderbolt/USB adapters are just USB host controllers which then connect to the computer through Thunderbolt due to its compatibility feature. Like I said, imagine Thunderbolt as sort of a cable version of PCIe. Plugging these Thunderbolt/USB adapters in is the same as installing a USB PCIe card. If you plugged your Apollo Twin USB into a Thunderbolt adapter and plugged that into your Thunderbolt port on your computer running Windows, it would be using the same driver as if it was plugged into a USB port directly.

 

Plugging it into a Thunderbolt adapter won't turn the USB chip inside the Apollo Twin USB into the chip that's inside the Apollo Twin which communicates through Thunderbolt. The hardware is completely different.