I just purchased my first Mac last week and i love it except for the fact that i cannot get my Audio/MIDI interface to work with it. It is a Tascam US-144 and it works fine with my PC but doesnt work at all with my Mac. I installed the drivers for Mac and nothing. The Tascam utility says that nothing is connected. Any ideas? Thanks
MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
The Tascam US-144 is not all that old. I got on the phone with Tascam and i had to uninstall the drivers for the US-144 and install just the drivers for the US-144 MkII (which isnt the model i have but virutally the same). The Mark II driver is compatible with my version of Mac OSX so whichever one is the latest and is compatible with your OS, i'd recomend uninstalling all previous and installing just the appropriate one.
Another thing i noticed too is that the US-144 had to be plugged in after i was completely logged into the machine. if it is plugged in while i am booting up my Mac, it is not recognized for some reason.
But it is resolved and i have been using it without a problem.
Thanks for the responses.
I suspect this means that the Mac drivers are not compatible with MacOS 10.7 - looking at the Tascam downloads, the latest driver package appears to be for 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
Try contacting them and asking if they have Lion drivers available, or any compatibility information they can offer you.
hello MZX11,
i just got the US144 and same problem with me I'm using snow leopard and garageband but nothing shows in preferences.
did you get anywhere with your searches?
i too am at a loss with all this sillyness.
thanks Steve
I'm thinking that maybe with the US144 being old that snow leopard and it and the drivers are not compatible.
i have seen much on this subject but no diffinative answers being put forward. surely Tascam must be aware and read these posts?? why don't they offer a solution right here?
thank you a lot for your time,
i have the uninstall on disc for the earlier version, thats ok.
The latest version ( downloaded) should i just trash that and start over?
when these drivers are showing in applications, are they up and running?
how can i tell if firmware is current?
Another thing i noticed too is that the US-144 had to be plugged in after i was completely logged into the machine.
could you please enlarge on this comment. do you say that the unit must be unplugged on shut down or sleep of Mac, and then re plugged at each useage to show up on garageband preferences? cause the 144 isnt seen.
thank you so very much once again.
Steve
OK. I will provide you step by step what i did and what Tascam had me do in hopes that it helps you figure your issue out. If this doesnt help you resolve your issue, i recommend contacting Tascam yourself.
1. I installed the MAC version of the firmware and drivers from the disc that came with my Tascam US-144 and once completed, plug the US-144 into the Mac. The app for the US-144 said that nothing was attached or it couldnt be found. Something like that.
2. So i downloaded the latest driver from the Tascam website. This showed up some feautres but not all. The latest drivers were for the MkII.
3. I had reached out to Tascam about this especially since it is so confusing to figure out what to download on there website. There is no consistancy with there naming convention for the drivers and firmware.
4. While on the phone with Tascam support, we uninstalled all versions of tascam craziness and installed just the file for the MkII.
So to be clear, i had to install a driver for a device that i didnt purchase for it to work. I have the US-144 and the driver for the US-144 Mk II is the only one that would make it work.
5.I restarted my MacBook and once i was logged into the Mac i plugged the US-144 into it and opened Garage band and was able to use it to control Garageband.
I did however notice that if i plugged in the US-144 before turning on the Macbook, the US-144 was never seen unless if i unplugged it and plugged it back in.
I hope that helps.
Hello MZX11,
well what can i say, all of your hard work paid off.
thank you.
i followed your lead and had success.
I was most happy to get the results, i simply found anything to do with Tascam on my computer, deleted the lot, downloaded the latest driver and the firmware, (the firmware i believe was already current on my machine).
Man was i happy to see the driver come up on screen
Tascam too confirmed the process via Email, so well done all, I expect that patience is needed in these cases.
thanks again to all.
steve
Hi!
Thank you for your responses that helped me today. But I have another problem and perhaps you could help me more...
Altough I've installed the latest driver for the Tascam us-144 (i've a mac book with Snow Leopard 10.6.8) and that it recognize it, it always says "no valid signal" for Digital Input Status in the control panel...
Can you or someone help me ? thx
My first question would be, is the version of the driver you downloaded and installed, compatible with Snow Leopard? Have you restarted your computer after installing? Did you plug the US-144 into your computer after you logged into the computer? If you have done all of the above, you should contact Tascam support. They are pretty good and helped me thru my initial issue fairly quickly. By the way, i have not had any problems with this since i wrote the post.
Thank you
Thank you for your answer!
Though, now it works. Even if I did everything you write (restart the computer, plug the Tascam after logging the computer, etc...) it didn't work, my computer didin't recognise the US-144. So I did'nt know what could be the problem... and the day after, without any explication, my computer could recognise the US-144, and i could record a sound in garage band. But, what is weird is that in the panel control, there's always the message "no valid signal" for digital input... even if it works... so weird
Thank you again
Tascam US 144
