Tascam US-122mkII midi driver conflict with Presonus Firepod?

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Tascam US-122mkII midi driver conflict with Presonus Firepod?

I've been using my Presonus Firepod firewire as a midi device and audio device without problems for several months. Today I installed a Tascam US-122mkII USB audio/midi device, and now I am unable to connect with midi devices using the Firepod. I am able to connect via midi using the US-122mkII.

When I run Audio Midi Setup both the Firepod and the US-122mkII are shown. The aggregate device lists the Firepod and Built-in Output, but not the US-122mkII. I'm not sure what that means.

Is there any known reason the firewire midi would quit functioning when the USB midi device was installed?

SR MBP 2.4 4GB, Fusion: XP Pro/Win 7, Mac OS X (10.6.5), Samsung 226BW, Wired aluminum keyboard

Posted on Dec 10, 2010 5:14 PM

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Answer 1

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Dec 11, 2010 3:28 AM in response to Resn8tor

You are dealing with hardware from two manufacturers and trying to get them working together. This ha nothing to do with Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard > Installation and Setup.
Contact the manufacturers and coordinate with them.

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Dec 11, 2010 10:00 AM in response to sig

That sounds like what I used to deal with from Microsoft support. I'm just checking to see if this is a known issue.

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Dec 11, 2010 1:33 PM in response to Resn8tor

This is a user forum not Apple support. We are users like yourself. Your combination is esoteric at the very least. Contact the manufacturers.

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Dec 11, 2010 4:55 PM in response to sig

Yeah, I pretty much got your take on it the first time. I'm aware this is a user forum. Please don't waste your time, and mine, repeating yourself.

Let me restate my question:
1. Are there any issues with running FireWire and USB MIDI drivers at the same time?
2. Are there any issues with multiple instances of MIDI drivers? Between the Presonus driver, the original and update installations of the USB driver, and trying three different USB ports--it is possible I've maxed out. I know another unrelated OS has this specific problem.
3. 10.6.5 has been a little bit of an adventure so far, causing kernel panics and erroneously identifying batteries as needing replacement. Have any issues surfaced relating to hardware drivers in general or MIDI drives specifically?

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Dec 12, 2010 10:22 AM in response to Resn8tor

This morning I uninstalled the Tascam software using the supplied uninstaller and restarted. The FireWire interface still does not work. There is no separate driver required for the FirePod, so nothing to install. Any suggestions on how to get it working again?

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Dec 12, 2010 2:50 PM in response to Resn8tor

Ran system maintenance and problem is resolved.

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