Firewire Audio for macOS Ventura

I been working with some firewire audio stuff and Mac since 2012.

I very sad and very worried because im update my MacBook Pro to Mac OS to ventura and my very expensive firewire audio stuff stop working, It worked in Monterey with the "dongle-chain" Thunderbolt 3 adapter -> Thunderbolt 2 Adapter -> Firewire Adapter-> Firewire 800 to 400 adapter

Is there a change that this will be fixed in future updates or should i throw this device in the bin?

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MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 11.2

Posted on Mar 22, 2023 10:57 AM

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AcwDJ

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Posted on Apr 15, 2023 8:04 AM

I been the same, I had several Echo AudioFire audio interfaces, and suddlenly all gone because Ventura does not include the AppleFWAudio.kext what allow Core Audio FW devices to be recognized as Audio available interface for the OS.

I go Back to Monterey and use it that way until a few weeks back (what is really a pain, but Timemachine allow at least to recover my data). So I decide to check if there is a solution and if recent Ventura version works, just find out it is the same. Before I go back to Monterey investigate further and get a very good solution.

I recently found this hack to be able to use it my Firewire audio devices with Ventura 13.3.1, it works so far:

Ventura Hack for FireWire Core Audio Support on Supported MacBook Pro and others... - Ventura Hack for FireWire Core Aud… | Apple Developer Forums

I also write to Apple Feedback to ask to get this back again: Feedback - macOS - Apple

So there is a way to use FW Core Audio compliant devices with Ventura now.

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