>>When I talked to tech support at Emagic, they advised >>me to stay away from M-Audio products for Mac, and >>especially for OSX. Is this unfounded, or are their >>Mac drivers flakey? Josh wrote: > i'm sure emagic would love for you to buy an EMI 2|6 or 6|2... i've > had no experience with the M-Audio stuff under OSX but in general > keep in mind that you get what you pay for. M-Audio does seem to > have a good reputation, and if their OSX support is spotty, it's > probably more to do with the newness of the OS rather than any > incompetence on their part. They have been very good at keeping > up-to-date on their MIDI device drivers, so I'd assume audio support > is probably decent as well. Hi Josh, I'd like to second that you get what you pay for and that does seem to include M-Audio. As an owner of a USB Midisport 8X8 and Audiophile 2496 I can't say I'm impressed with their drivers. I have never been able to get the Midisport to function as a USB device. The product is at least 2 years old. The Audiophile's midi input doesn't seem to work accurately, despite using the latest Beta drivers. I have Windows systems and I believe M-Audio is probably better at writing Windows drivers than Mac drivers. I have had absolutely no problems with my RME card since day 1. Steve Chandler http://www.mp3.com/stevechandler

> >>When I talked to tech support at Emagic, they advised > >>me to stay away from M-Audio products for Mac, and > >>especially for OSX. Is this unfounded, or are their > >>Mac drivers flakey? --- In logic-users@yahoogroups.com, Steve Chandler <stevec@o...> wrote: > I'd like to second that you get what you pay for and that does seem > to include M-Audio. As an owner of a USB Midisport 8X8 and > Audiophile 2496 I can't say I'm impressed with their drivers. I > have never been able to get the Midisport to function as a USB > device. The product is at least 2 years old. The Audiophile's midi > input doesn't seem to work accurately, despite using the latest > Beta drivers. I have Windows systems and I believe M-Audio is > probably better at writing Windows drivers than Mac drivers. I have > had absolutely no problems with my RME card since day 1. For what its worth I'm pretty sure M-Audio helped Apple write a lot of Core Audio in OSX. I've been told before M-Audio makes the best OSX drivers out there though of course that does no good if Logic doesn't play along nicely with them.... I'm not sure why the Midisport wouldn't work over USB, but I've had no problems getting the Oxygen8 I bought from them to work over USB (in WindowsXP). Personally I am extremely tempted to get the new M-Audio Firewire 410 device, though it hasn't started shipping yet and I haven't heard from anyone using it. For a long time I wanted to get an RME Hammerfall/Multiface but since I don't record any physical instruments the analog 8 inputs on the Multiface were overkill for me (I only need 1 or 2). I thought of getting a lesser RME card but none of them seem to have analog outputs short of buying additional AEB expansions etc. I wish RME made a card with 1 analog output, a few analog ins and a bit of adat and s/pdif i/o... The M-Audio Firewire 410 device has a more analog outputs than I really need but is a bit less overkill for my particular setup than an RME card.. I can't wait to hear from people using it once it starts shipping. Jeremy M

> I'd like to second that you get what you pay for and that does seem to > include M-Audio. As an owner of a USB Midisport 8X8 and Audiophile 2496 > I can't say I'm impressed with their drivers. I have never been able to > get the Midisport to function as a USB device. I have a midisport 4x4 - no problem at all on my Mac. But I had a really bad experience with the Usb Quattro audio interface: I could get a clean recording only at very high latencies. Currently I use a Tascam US-428; latest drivers work fine and the control surface is a plus.