Using an Mbox2 Pro with Garageband on Leopard?

if Digi hasn't released 10.5 compatible drivers you'll have to either wait until they do, or perhaps you can return that and get something that does work B-(>

the key phrase is "that works with Mac OS X". without compatible drivers it apparently does not. what you want is an interface that is "class compliant" and thus does not require drivers.

sorry it wasn't a better answer B-(>

here are some of the most popular mac interfaces:

http://www.bulletsandbones.com/GB/Interfaces.html

the PreSonus line is supposed to be class compliant, and i've seen posts confirming that the inspire works with 10.5. i use a FirePod (which was plug and play) but my machine is frozen at 10.4, so i can't confirm for certain anything about 10.5

Whoa. Digidesign publishes a separate CoreAudio driver for their stuff explicitly for non-ProTools users. The latest is supposed to support the
Mbox 2 Pro. See http://digidesign.com/index.cfm?ngid=100&navid=54&itemid=24268.

I'm using a previous version of this driver with an 001 under Leopard with
GarageBand - it's unsupported, a little creaky, but it works.

My bad - even easier...from the digi website:

"The Mbox 2 Pro, Mbox 2, Mbox 2 Mini, and Mbox 2 Micro audio interfaces do not use the Digidesign CoreAudio Manager. Instead these devices are configured using the "Audio MIDI Setup" application in your Applications/Utilities folder, and the "Digidesign Mbox 2 Pro" or "Digidesign Mbox 2" (for Mbox 2 and Mbox 2 Mini) prefernce panes in your System Preferences."

I never had any luck recording a lick one with the cute little Mbox2mini using pro-tools. I wish i would have consulted bulletsandbones.com first. After reading ur post about Digidesign's CoreAudio Manager maybe there is new hope for this $300 paper weight? Coz pro-Tools is way over my head. I will try that, thanks. Is there a book-for-dummy's on this? I did fine with analog in 1975, go figure.

I have protools 7.1.1 for my macbook pro;my mbox 2 i getting powere but for garage band i get an error that says "GarageBand has detected a possible conflict between one or more third party MIDI or audio drivers"

if any1 can help me i would appreciate your insight

~ViTaL

Hello Lou !!! do you (or anyone out there) or anyone u know of, actually have had success recording real instruments on GarageBand using an Mbox2mini (or close to it) with their MAC? Or here is another question: Does anyone know anyone who has recorded with ProTools 7 using the Mbox2mini on a MAC? GarageBand is simple to use but I cannot record anything yet with ProTools.

Hello hangtime,
Are we all just sort of spinning our wheels here trying to use these Dididesign products? Maybe some of us should start over from scratch?

Hello Ian,

So what did u do? Did u get ur Mbox2 to work with GarageBand yet? Why you not use proTools? I watched the dvd for protools 2 times, set everything up and still had no luck recording. The guy who sold me the Mbox2 said it wud not work with GB and I i thought (at the time) n o problem, i could use the proTools. But too complicated. I could take some classes on it, but all i want to do is just record for songwriting, not for producing final product. So frustrating.

I would hardly call it horrid, slow yes, horrid no. They make the majority of their money with macs, but you purchased a system, that is specifically for protools to use with Garageband. That in itself is backward considering there are a ton of other hardware audio interfaces that work with logic. M-Audio, apogee, you name it. You went for the cheap, but protools doesn't sell it cheap because they want other software companies to use it. They sell it so you will use protools and then upgrade to a 002, 003 and then to the TDM.

I just don't understand why anyone would buy a protools system and not use protools. If you already had protools and wanted to use Garageband or Logic, fine, but why buy it for something else. That's like buying a Macbook to run Windows.