xer0 Posted December 24, 2007 Share Posted December 24, 2007 Hello, When I installed Leopard on my system almost everything worked right off the bat but I'm having an issue with my Presonus Firebox that I just can't get figured out. It happens on both Kalyway and iATKOS. When I go into System Preferences and then Sounds I see it listed as a Recording and a Playback device but when I try to change the volume or do anything with it the light on the front of the firebox just keeps blinking between red (no driver) and blue (driver found). If I try to play an audio file the system either just locks up or the sound will start but it cuts out like every other second. I looked on Presonus' site and there isn't any newer driver download that I could find. Supposedly the Firebox works great for most in Leopard. I'm thinking at this point it may be my firewire card. My motherboard doesn't support FW out of the box so I had to buy an expansion card. The card uses a VIA chipset although I am not really sure which model. System Specs: Intel Core 2 Duo Gigabyte 965P-DS3 1GB PC800 nVidia GeForce 7300 2 WD SATA2 150GB HDD's Via Firewire Card I am using PC EFI and running Vanilla. I know probably not too many people here are using the Firebox so any help that you might be able to provide is greatly appreciated. Thanks -0 EDIT: I also wanted to note that this exact same setup was working fine in Tiger (Jas 10.4.8) and that it is still working fine in Windows right now. Its not a hardware issue. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77772-presonus-firebox-potiental-firewire-problem/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
max240p Posted February 16, 2008 Share Posted February 16, 2008 Hi! My Leopard doesn't recognize Presonus Firestudio. It says "Unknown device". I installed driver from Presonus website but nothing happends... (( Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77772-presonus-firebox-potiental-firewire-problem/#findComment-627764 Share on other sites More sharing options...
dj_stick Posted February 16, 2008 Share Posted February 16, 2008 ok this may not be your problem, but i had this with my mbox 2 pro (also a firewire device) i read something about firewire devices booting their firmware each time they're turned on, basedo n hte OS thats loading… may be the cause? anyway every so often, between vista and OSX, i would just lose sound entirely from the mbox 2 pro - i'd have to re-initialise it by unplugging both the power and firewire cables, and then reconnecting - the device would work fine after that… Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77772-presonus-firebox-potiental-firewire-problem/#findComment-627777 Share on other sites More sharing options...
imott Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 FP10 working fine here with Logic 8, Reaper, and Garage Band. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77772-presonus-firebox-potiental-firewire-problem/#findComment-627852 Share on other sites More sharing options...
max240p Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Can you give me an advice what should I do? I reconnect it, reinstall drivers bla-bla but it still doesn't work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77772-presonus-firebox-potiental-firewire-problem/#findComment-627858 Share on other sites More sharing options...
onemanstrash Posted October 5, 2008 Share Posted October 5, 2008 i have the presonus firebox and i lost sync. I had the red light. I'm on 10.5.4 and it was working fine. I replugged the firewire cable to the back of the presonus firebox and i still only had a red light.. The solution was to unplug/replug the cable from the back of the motherboard i/o port. I don't know why that fixes it but it worked Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77772-presonus-firebox-potiental-firewire-problem/#findComment-919028 Share on other sites More sharing options...
muchlife Posted September 1, 2010 Share Posted September 1, 2010 use a firewire bus thats on TI (texas instrument) chipset can buy PCI firewire card or motherboard (gigabyte) that uses TI chipsets for their firewire and shouldnt have any issues with this audio interface red light issue usually related to VIA chipset which some are recognized fine by OSX and work but when you need perfect performance with firewire you need TI Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/77772-presonus-firebox-potiental-firewire-problem/#findComment-1540959 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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