Snow Leopard Ok Except MIDI Driver Issues

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Snow Leopard Ok Except MIDI Driver Issues

I really like the Snow Leopard install I did this past Sat and all went well, speed increase, added HD space, faster Photoshop CS4. But I can't use GarageBand right now because my M-Audio UNO Sport MIDI USB cable won't work wth Snow Leopard. There is no driver update yet at the M-Audio for the UNO. I'm sure they are working on it, but I need to get my keyboard hooked up to GB.

I am reading many other posts here about others having no problems with the upgrade other than MIDI issues with their direct USB keyboards or their MIDI/Audio interfaces.

Hope this gets fixed soon.
Thanks Steve

MacBook 2.2 Ghz 160 GB HD, 4 GB RAM, Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Sep 7, 2009 10:07 AM

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Sep 8, 2009 2:41 AM in response to Steve B5

Have you a question?

As you have noted, it is M-Audio's responsibility to update their drivers.

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Steve B5 Author

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Sep 8, 2009 8:55 AM in response to DaddyPaycheck

HI. I think my question would be is there a MIDI cable that is "immune" to Snow L that anyone has found to work now, rather than wait for M-Audio to update their drivers. The M-Audio site reported on their site they are working with Apple to update the drivers, but no one has a clue on when and how soon,

Thanks

steve

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Sep 8, 2009 9:13 AM in response to Steve B5

My M-Audio 25 connected by usb works with 10.6

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Steve B5 Author

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Sep 8, 2009 10:01 AM in response to Donald Palmer

Thanks, I'll look into that on the site.

steve

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Gulzt

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Sep 11, 2009 5:02 AM in response to Steve B5

It seems I have a similar problem. I use my Kawai Mp5 (stage piano) as a midi interface. It is connected to my Mac (see details below) using a USB cable.

In Leopard it worked fine. In Snow Leopard however I need to power on the Kawai before I start my computer! If I power the Kawai later it is not detected in the Midi Setup of MacOSX. However, in system info I can see that the USB device is detected!

So the Mac recognizes the device, but it's not showing up as a midi interface, unless it was powered before I started my computer.
Anyone else having this problem? It's really annoying to have to restart your computer everytime I which to use my midi interface..

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Sep 15, 2009 9:53 AM in response to Steve B5

My computer is the hub of my project music studio. My MOTU Fastlane Midi interface (the interface itself) fried after installing, followed by a message that it was drawing too much power (it's never done that). I'm also using a Tascam FW1884, and the midi isn't working properly, not recognizing certain midi instruments plugged into the system, particularly my Behringer FCB1010. Frustrating.

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Sep 22, 2009 6:18 AM in response to Steve B5

I have a roland digital piano RD-300GX which is not showing up in the midi utility either. and as mentioned by someone else, in the system profiler its there. But the midi utility can't find it. It works fine on my mac mini 10.4.11 but not at all on my 10.6.1

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Sep 25, 2009 8:02 AM in response to Steve B5

I also have found that my MIDI got broken when I moved from PowerBook (Leopard) to MacBook (Snow Leopard). Who's going to fix it? I guess if Apple broke it they should fix it - PLEASE?!!!

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Oct 5, 2009 7:33 AM in response to Steve B5

According to the M-Audio website you don't need any drivers for the latest model of MIDISport UNO is your's an older model?

http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=support.faq&ID=e27a7952a1a8e63c26cb37276be04 f73

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Steve B5 Author

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Oct 5, 2009 9:43 AM in response to Noiseboy2006

Hi Noise, Thanks for responding. The UNO MIDI cable I have is one of the first generation types. I hope M-Audio will still support the older devices.

Steve

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Oct 6, 2009 12:13 AM in response to Steve B5

I thought that this type of interface was supposed to be class compliant.

Did you try trashing your audio .plist files? You'll find com.apple.audio.DeviceSettings.plist and
com.apple.audio.SystemSettings.plist in library/preferences.

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Steve B5 Author

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Oct 6, 2009 1:01 PM in response to Noiseboy2006

Hi Noise. I will try and dump those files and see if there is any improvement in MIDI performance'

Thanks Steve

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Oding

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Dec 21, 2009 12:24 AM in response to Steve B5

Same problem here, the computer has detected the audio in/out from my e-mu 0404 audio/midi interface, but the midi in/out has never appeared in the midi setting.

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Silenida

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Mar 17, 2010 7:20 PM in response to Gulzt

I have the same problem like you with my Kawa mp5.
Have you find any solution?

best

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