Audio Dropout Fix? - Instructions with WARNING!!!!

[vince watson]

I give you this fix for M-Audio Firewire Users who are experiencing Audio Clipping (Dropouts) on OS X Panther. While this may not work 100%, or work for all users, there is evidence suggesting that this fix will help.

DISCLAIMER : UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD YOU ATTEMPT THIS UNLESS YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE OS. DANGEROUS PROCEDURE AND CAN BE FATAL IF UNDERTAKEN INCORRECTLY.

I ACCEPT NO RESPONSIBILTY FOR INCAPABLE USERS WHO ATTEMPT THIS AND FAIL!!!



Instructions :

FOR TERMINAL-LEVEL UNINSTALL INSTRUCTIONS FOR OSX

Follow these instructions to erase the old drivers completely:

Remove your device from the firewire port.

It is sometimes necessary to completely remove a previous installation of the packages and files that are installed with your M-Audio interface. In OS X, especially 10.3.x, the only way to safely remove all of the components of an install is to log in as the root user, or to use the Terminal utility.

You may use the Terminal utility to remove the previous installation of the driver. This requires that you be careful however, and enter the commands exactly as stated. The OSX Terminal utility requires precision in its command line. Unless the command is entered correctly serious damage can be done to your OS. Commands are case sensitive.

First of all, do a search (Apple key + F) for m-audio and leave the results window open.

Next, open the Terminal utility (in your hard drive, look in Applications-->Utilities-->Terminal) and type:

sudo rm -R

Make sure that you type the space bar after the capital R, in other words:

sudo_rm_-R_

You can drag the file names into the Terminal window from the search results window and it will be correctly entered there. There must be a space between each file. After dragging all the files into the Terminal window so their names appear, hit Enter and you will prompted for your administrator password. Type your password and then hit Enter.

Please be aware that if you have more than one M-Audio interface, or have downloaded an M-Audio driver from our website that the search will show these results as well.

After doing this, repeat the same search with the search terms 'maudio' and 'm audio' and erase them as well using the same procedure.


REPAIR DISK PERMISSIONS

On your OS X system drive, go in the Applications>Utilities folder and double-click the Disk Utility. Select your system boot volume on the left (the named drive), and then click the First Aid tab on the right and click the button on that page that says Repair Disk Permissions.

This will take a few minutes, it is a general maintenance routine for the OS, very important to ensure the proper functioning of MIDI and audio.

Close down your computer.

Install Firewire Driver M-audio 1.2.4 NOT 1.4.1!!!
Connect your Firewire device, and turn it on, then boot up your computer.

Repair Permissions again.

Good luck

[Verooka]

Vince - I can't get the Terminal bit of this to work mate. I do search, open terminal and then try to enter the 'sudo rm -r ' bit but Terminal only brings up a very small square window with red button. Where do you enter text?

Thanks

PS. How much did you pay for your RME? My M-Audio is suprisingly playing up!

[vince watson]

my apologies...i should have got this removed as it doesnt work for everyone...

m-audio is just a pain in the arse isnt it....

i paid £515, but that was with a fair discount in my local, thats for the cardbus and multiface.


go get it...im now on 3ms latency and not a hiccup in site...