Will MOTU 24I/O work with Logic Pro 9?

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Will MOTU 24I/O work with Logic Pro 9?

I am new to Logic Pro having converted from Sonar 7. I have a MOTU 24io and need to connect it to my iMac. I have been racking my brain trying to find help and all I can see is people say no. My former computer had the required PCI 424 card for firewire 400. I am not convinced. Is there a way to make it work?

iMac 2.66 Ghz 4G DDR2 SDRAM, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Sep 9, 2010 5:39 PM

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Sep 10, 2010 12:06 AM in response to rforkel

In principle the 24i/o works great with logic. Your problem is connecting it to the iMac, and that's just not possible. The wire between your PC and the interface is not just firewire. It physically looks like it, but the low level protocol is different. The PCI 424 interface also brings additional HW that you don't have, like a stable audio clock to synchronize the interfaces to. So there is absolutely no way to get it to work with an iMac. You need a mac pro or a PC running Mac OS X.

Cheers,

Jazz

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CCTM

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Sep 10, 2010 2:15 AM in response to Jazzmaniac

Hi

To confirm what Jazzmaniac has said.... NO a MOTU 24 i/o will NOT work with an iMac. The MOTU needs a PCI card, something which cannot be fitted to an iMac.

Either get a MacPro (works great with the 24i/o) or a Firewire audio interface to use with the iMac.

HTH

CCT

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