![]() This entry was posted in Hardware, Music and tagged firewire, mac, mackie, onyx, osx by Wohali. I’d post it to the Mackie forum, but the moderators there have yet to enable my posting rights. /videos/searchqonyx+mac+10.6+8&qpvtonyx+mac+10.6+8&FORMVDRE Onyx is an excellent program. Here’s hoping this helps someone out in the wild. This caused my machine not to boot correctly, and I had to repair it using another machine. One warning: do not install the Leopard FireWire (not FireWireAudio) drivers from the 24 SDK. If you experience any compatibility issues with OnyX for Mac, consider downloading one of the older versions of OnyX. I don’t know why installing the latest SDK FW base drivers and the FireWireAudio 2.4 drivers first was required before the 2.0.1 drivers would correctly fire up, but it was. Go to the System Preferences > Sound panel and try sound output to the Onyx Firewire 0838.Look for AppleFWAudio, and make sure it is version 2.0.1. Select Software > Extensions on the left-hand browser.From the Apple menu, select About this Mac, then click the More Info button to start System Profiler.Note that this version is only for OS X 10.5 Leopard. ![]() From /Developer/FireWireSDK24/FireWireComponents, install the FireWireAudio 2.0.1 drivers. OnyX is a simple but incredibly powerful maintenance and optimization tool for OS X.Look for AppleFWAudio, and make sure it is version 2.4.0. From /Developer/FireWireSDK26/FireWireComponents, install the FireWireAudio 2.4 drivers.From /Developer/FireWireSDK26/FireWireComponents, install the Leopard Final drivers.This will create directories under /Developer on your system drive. Mount both image files and install the package files from both (FireWireSDK26.pkg and the confusingly-named FireWireSDK23.pkg).Download both the FireWire SDK 26 for Mac OSX and the FireWire SDK 24 for Mac OSX.It’s free, and required to download the software you need. Sign up for an Apple Developer Connection account.Here’s how I managed to finally get everything working correctly under Apple OSX 10.5.5: Mackie lists this audio driver rollback (PDF) on their website, but the first try at it didn’t work. (Power cycling the Onyx allowed the Force Quit to work.) Actually running my DAW made things worse the application would hang, and Force Quit didn’t help. When playing audio from the Mac to the Onyx (just from the System Preferences Sound panel, selecting the Onyx FireWire 0838 output for system sounds and clicking the Purr sound – no DAW software), I’d get the spinning beachball for ~10s, then stuttering, clicking, popping sound would come out. For the unibody MB the hard drive takes a little more time but is not really more difficult.After upgrading Waynemanor Studio’s Intel-based Mac to OSX 10.5 (10.5.5), I was unable to get the Mackie Onyx 1640 FireWire interface to stream audio successfully to/from the Mac. using Carbon Copy Cloner of those hardware changes are easy to perform ~ especially if you still have one of the white/black MacBook models. Fortunately Mac OS X is one of the systems you can perfectly clone to a new drive e.g. Usually are kits that come with an external case or cable to copy your data. Visit the following URL replacing "serialnumber" with the actual SN of your MacBookOne last option that truly gives new life to a MacBook would be replacing a mechanical hard drive with a Solid State Drive. Repair Permission via Disk Utility* run it twice ~ remaining errors won't be repaired because of outdated receiptsVerify Disk via Disk Utility* on error backup your data, boot from the 10.6 DVD and repair the diskI second running Onyx (see cleaning and maintenance tab)also adding more RAM is a great tipInstalling RAM is quite easy for MacBooks but make sure that you buy the right RAM and not more than supported.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |