trance4jim Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 I'm interested in building a hackintosh for the price/power. I've built pc's before and modified xboxes.This seems interesting. I'm still very new to the mac scene.I own a intel imac.2gb max ram though. The problem= I still can't find anyone with a m-audio firewire device on osx86. I own the Ozonic and need to be able to use this on the new system. I need to choose a mobo with 1394 and must be 45nm ready. Most importantly must be stable. I plan on using Reason 4, Protools M-Powered and maybe Logic 8. Any suggestions or input on using firewire interfaces with osx86??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geeze Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 I responded to your other post as well. My firewire works fine on both of my machines (see specs below). I have an Ozonic and a Mackie 16 channel Onyx/firewire mixer. Although I have not recorded with either of them, out put has been without issue. I added a firewire card to my desktop and it was one that was listed on the Digidesign website as being compatible. I am not at my desktop now, but I am pretty sure it is a Siig PCI 400. It has 3 ports on it and all three work fine and I had to do no moding to get them to work. I also hook my two firewire external hard drives to those ports and they seem to not have a problem. Sorry no info about recording, but I am pretty sure if you can put together a machine with decent compatible hardware, you would be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubel Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 Hi, i use MOTO828 with no problems. 10.4.10. Logic 8 Greets, Rubel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UZi706 Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 Eff Protools. (Go to Logic) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dj_stick Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 i've used to firewire based cards in OSX86 - a Behringer FCA 202 and a Digidesign Mbox 2 Pro - they act as if they were running on a real mac, so you won't have any trouble providing the device has drivers for OSX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brooklyn electronic music Posted November 24, 2007 Share Posted November 24, 2007 i have an mlan network which i will try. i currently have tried a UA-5 works perfectly. and access virus ti - works in finder and itunes, vlc etc but in logic but my core audioi≈l messes up. i tried a lot of patches trying to get onboard audio working. i'll reinstall the toh ones and try virus control again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xer0 Posted November 26, 2007 Share Posted November 26, 2007 I use a Presonus Firebox that works great in OS X with Logic 8 Studio. Its small and portable so its perfect for me in that I can use it on my desktop at home or take it on the road with my laptop, the Firepod is probably a better value if portability is not a concern for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trance4jim Posted November 28, 2007 Author Share Posted November 28, 2007 Thanks everyone! I really do appreciate the input.I think I'm ready to make the jump. I currently have a imac 17" 2.0ghz cd2 with 1gb ram.Its limited to 2gb so thats why I plan on upgrading.I will fund this buy selling my imac. Is there any issue with having 4gbs of ram in osx or xp? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomazzzi Posted November 30, 2007 Share Posted November 30, 2007 motu 828mk2 firewire logic studio 8 ga-965p-dq6 EE6600 leopard toh 10.5.0 with last toh kernel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oughost Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 The Focusrite Saffire LE works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raz2007 Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 Presonus Firepod (converted to FP10) works! ..only with a texas instrument chipset! (VIA 6306 gave the red light of doom..) specs: gb965p-s3 - c2d 4300 - Leo TohRC2 - efi v8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darwinian Dude Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 When I ran a hackintosh I used both a tasam fw1884 and a mackie onyx satelite without issues using and audigy card as the firewire interface. Worked well. I have a real mac now though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontevin Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 My M-AUDIO FireWire Audiophile works great with 10.4.10 and Logic Studio 8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecourier Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 Hi, i use MOTO828 with no problems. 10.4.10. Logic 8 Greets, Rubel I have your firewire card but sometime it crashed! It also have terrible bug :logic cpu meter go over when CPU go 50%., and Idle 50%. Installed on :10.4.9 r3 upHuck, Mobo: p4c800 CPU: pentium4, 3Ghz, Hyper Threading tecnology Northwood compatible SSE2 1Mb ram video card: 5200Fx YOU what system do U have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomazzzi Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 i use a motu 828mk2 too ( with a presonus firestation adat module ) worked like a charm on 10.4.8 JaS & now on Leo ToH , i can record 18 input at the same time (24bit) + a lot of vsti s & effects running i use ableton mostly though i v done some tests on logic & everything seems to work fine my system is an intel coreduo2 EE6600 with a gigabyte GA965P-DQ6, 2GB DRR2 PC6400 STT, MSI geforce 7600 GS i had many pb with those upHuck dvd s have u tried with a JaS s one ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecourier Posted December 4, 2007 Share Posted December 4, 2007 I've tried jas 10.4.8 before installing uphuck 10.4.9 but the I've the same problem on logic, cpu goes 50% then logic cpu meter goes over, I I never hear Leo ToH version, you mean 10.5 ??? I have also a jas you mean that I can solve my problem upgrating to 10.4.10? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jl8080 Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 If you're doing mostly Software based production and have no other outboard gear I can recommend the FA-66. After spending ages looking for drivers for it on the OSX platform I gave up and just plugged it in. Works out of the box, on 10.4.9 anyway No problems with any audio apps that i've tried. Reason, Logic 8, Logic 7.2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonio Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 RME FireFace 800 works like charm. On Leopard 10.5 too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chipxsd Posted January 1, 2008 Share Posted January 1, 2008 M-Audio ProjectMix I/O works flawlessly on Leopard 10.5.1. I'm using Logic 8.0.1, and everything runs on a hacky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjpp Posted January 23, 2008 Share Posted January 23, 2008 Had problems with my Alesis io/14 until a friend recomended i change my pci firewire card to a belkin. All works perfectly on 10.5.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onemanstrash Posted January 24, 2008 Share Posted January 24, 2008 I run a Presonus firebox. I can run Logic 8.0.1 as my instrument while tweaking effects while simultaneously running garage band for recording from logic. I also can run reason. All in 10.5.1. No problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khan_Man Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 Hi, I’ve got a hiccup problem with my Presonus FirePod (via firewire). For a quarter of a second my sound drops out in Logic Express 8.0.1 and iTunes. I haven’t tried it in Garage Band yet. I’ve tried isolating the issue and it seems to be 10.5.x, hackintosh and a firewire problem. I can play back a project / music / sound fine from an iMic and from internal sound but when I use the firewire/FirePod the dropout is there. It is an irregular drop out, might be 30 seconds to an hour between dropouts. I’ve tried on 2 hackintoshes (specs in sig) and my G4 duel 1gig. The hackies both hiccup, the G4 doesn’t. Also 10.4.9 works fine on the hackies but 10.5.2 and 10.5.3 doesn’t. Fortunately, I kept a 10.4.9 HD on both hackies so I’m still up and running but... it would sure be nice to figure out this problem. Also, I just tried a firewire camera on one of the hackies with 10.5.3 and it worked fine. Seems to be just the FirePod (or core audio or....) Any help would be greatly appreciated. Khan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustinAiken Posted July 23, 2008 Share Posted July 23, 2008 I can't get my 002 to work... is there a way to tell if it's working besides running Pro Tools? Somewhere you can see if it's popping up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erikk Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 edirol fa-66 fw soundcard works really well in logic 8 and ableton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
budddub Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 hello i have a asus g1s ak092c with a hackintosh kalyway 10.5.2 leopar and a dual boot with xp with logic 8 and final cut installed and thats great for the moment my prjectmix io m audio is not recognized in 10.5.2 but there are some kernel for 10.5.3 for intel on the m audio networkdriver so i hope i ll found pilotes for 10.5.2 or a combo update witch work i tell you before but some friend have the same configuration on macbook and logic reason and final cut seems t obe better one asus g1s so if you forget the work to do for installing logic 8 on a g1s its better but if you want a proper solution you will need 1000 euro more to get a real macbook pro looooool bye Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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