anyone have firewire 410 drivers for os9

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 6:15 pm

the m-auio site's down

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 10:58 pm

Try again -- I had no problems just now downloading the new drivers posted the other day.

FORMAT · Post by **FORMAT** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 8:29 am

I take it you both own the 410 interface - any opinions on sound, reliability, etc? I am considering this unit for transportability reasons.

cheers,

sixela · Post by **sixela** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 9:14 pm

it's great on my XP laptop - very very good in fact,latency is brilliant, really nice pre-amps, but I'm having a bugger of a time getting it to work properly on the firewire/pismo powerbook i just bought 2nd hand.....

FORMAT · Post by **FORMAT** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 8:46 am

amazing that it works on Win but not on Mac....

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 10:38 am

well yeah, I don't want to be too hasty to judge when I haven't tried more ram yet, but so far it's been an absolute pain in the arse to get working properly - but there are some things I really like about mac os - namely the extensions manager - if only the XP services manager was as straight forward- the mac ext mngr actually gives you a description of what each one does right there so you can quite happily create a new 'set' for audio only and turn off all the functions you dont need - on XP you have to go to the black viper site, which has been set up by some guy nothing to do with microsoft, and then try and understand what the hell he's talking about - I've tried a couple of times and given up. Maybe now I've seen the way mac do it I'll understand what i'm doing a bit better.......

But on the flip side, Apple really could do to make things a bit clearer on certain things - for example carbon lib, which I only found out about on the ableton site way down in the faqs somewhere - only to then look at the box and notice live's only actually supported with 256ram so I have to wait anyway!!!!!!!!) and open transport and one or two other things that actually seem to be really important that I only found out about by trawling though the net for ages - I'm sure this is all sorted with OS X but then it wouldn't hurt to keep supporting OS9 properly in case people like me who spend all their money on just the machine and more ram and can't afford the upgrade!!

Then I get an email from M-Audio saying the min requirements for the FW410 are 500mHz processer, when mines 400 - but I don't remember seeing that anywhere.........

oh well, maybe I'll keep my emi 2/6 for the mac instead of selling it, that should work better with an apple machine (in theory!)

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 12:22 am

FW410 works great in OS9 and OSX on my 1ghz Tibook. I haven't had a single problem. I have 1 gig of RAM btw. It's a lovely little nicely finished silver shiny box with sweet pres - well, you know the rest. Two headphone outs. Power from the firewire port. Gorgeous blue LEDs. Good latency in OSX. Not so good in OS9. But once you've gone OSX for a while you get kind of use to a more rock solid, stable and fluid feel to the whole business, anyway.

I'd definitely recommend it to anyon e with enough spec on there computer.

I was pleasantly suprised when it even worked with Logic 4.8.1 in OS9.

Splitting the outputs in Live for djing may even be possible in OSX with Jack Tools - I thought I saw a thread on this somewhere, perhaps on this forum.

Tim York