Alesis Firewire Multimix 12 - GB "08 works fine -any problems going to '09?

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Alesis Firewire Multimix 12 - GB "08 works fine -any problems going to '09?

I've been sitting on this iLife '09 box for a while until things seems to shake out, which seems to be the case. Anyone have a different take? Snow Leopard is a different matter, but if you want to share, I'm happy to listen. My interest is in Alesis specifically. mike

iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8), Time Machine

Posted on Sep 8, 2009 12:20 PM

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isteveus

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Sep 8, 2009 4:52 PM in response to mcgrover1

I've been using a Firewire Multimix 8 with 09 and snow leopard no problems what so ever.

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Sep 8, 2009 9:31 PM in response to isteveus

Thanks for the info, and I don't mean to pick this to death, but it looks like the Alesis driver for GB '09 is the same as for '08, as it seems to be the most recent. Was that your experience? Just load it and go? Did you load iLife, then SL? I haven't read/heard that it would make a difference, but the Apple Care phone people I spoke to "suggested" waiting for SL to settle down before installing - or words to that effect. thanks.

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poflynn

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Sep 8, 2009 11:32 PM in response to mcgrover1

It was my understanding that the drivers were specific to the OS, not the GB version. Am I wrong in that assumption?

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isteveus

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Sep 9, 2009 4:56 AM in response to poflynn

You're correct poflynn it's all about the core audio drivers in the OS not your ilife version.

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poflynn

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Sep 9, 2009 9:31 AM in response to isteveus

🙂

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Sep 13, 2009 10:34 PM in response to isteveus

isteveus wrote:
I've been using a Firewire Multimix 8 with 09 and snow leopard no problems what so ever.

Is that really the case? I had heard that the Firewire drivers for the MultiMix 8 were not compatible with Snow Leopard. I have been holding off upgrading my production Mac for that reason alone. I've been waiting for Alesis to update their drivers for Snow Leopard.

If I can be assured that the existing driver (dating back to January 2008) works fine under Snow Leopard, perhaps I will apply the 10.6 upgrade to my main machine.

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isteveus

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Sep 14, 2009 7:15 AM in response to Louis Trapani

Works just fine. The alesis control panel that let's you select latency and clock settings no longer works but the clock is handled by Audio Midi setup.

I've done several recordings both in garageband and Logic Express and it's working. I'm using a 2.4Ghz imac.

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mcgrover1 Author

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Sep 14, 2009 7:53 AM in response to isteveus

http://www.alesis.com/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/1172/tt/5 This should show that Alesis, dated today, has added a Zip driver for Snow Leopard support.

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gjmnz

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Sep 14, 2009 11:33 AM in response to poflynn

poflynn wrote:
It was my understanding that the drivers were specific to the OS, not the GB version.

Hey poflynn. The updated Snow Leopard drivers mentioned in the above post are also updated for the iO/14 and iO/26 as well. Check the support page for interfaces.

Cheers.

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gjmnz

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Sep 14, 2009 11:34 AM in response to mcgrover1

mcgrover1 wrote:
http://www.alesis.com/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/1172/tt/5 This should show that Alesis, dated today, has added a Zip driver for Snow Leopard support.

Thanks mcgrover1 for the heads up.

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poflynn

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Sep 14, 2009 4:50 PM in response to gjmnz

Thanks. I got an email from Alesis about that.
Although, I'm still on Tiger, so I shouldn't need to update the driver, yes?

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isteveus

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Sep 14, 2009 6:58 PM in response to poflynn

Just installed it works fine has a new control panel. The install pdf says it's for 10.4, 5 and 6.

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gjmnz

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Sep 14, 2009 8:09 PM in response to poflynn

poflynn wrote:
Thanks. I got an email from Alesis about that.

You must be a preferred customer, or it takes a while for emails to get to NZ! 😉

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poflynn

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Sep 14, 2009 8:30 PM in response to gjmnz

My mistake. It actually came from these guys: http://io.nixion.net/viewforum.php?f=1
a support forum.

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Sep 22, 2009 4:06 AM in response to mcgrover1

A belated thanks for the heads up on the new driver. I was busy with some projected I needed to get done first, but I finally upgraded my production machine to Snow Leopard using the new Alesis driver, so far, so good, though I only did a quick test with it at this point.

Again, thanks.

Cheers,
Louis

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