Audio Interface with Seamless IMac Compatiblity?

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Audio Interface with Seamless IMac Compatiblity?

Dear List,

I thought I submitted this question before but I couldn't find it in my stuff, and can't find exactly the same question in here by searching so here goes and sorry if it's repetitive.

I currently use an M-Audio, Fastrack Ultra as my interface, and it causes my IMac to kernel crash fairly frequently, despite the fact that I'm using all their suggested work arounds. I just looked on their website, and there's no new driver updates, as they have been working on trying to fix that issue. Thus, I'm going to give up on it and I want an audio interface that works seamlessly with IMacs. I would like to stay in the 400-600 dollar range.

The tech specs for my IMac and Logic Studio are below:

IMac 21.5inch Mid 2011

Processor: 2.7 GHz, Intel Core I5

Memory: 4GB 1333 MHz DDR3

Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6770M 512 MB

Software: Mac OS X Lion, Version 10.7.4 (11E53)

VERSION OF LOGIC PRO

9.1.7 (1700.57) 32 bit

Thanks in advance

Joyce

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Aug 18, 2012 4:35 PM

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Answer 1

Aug 20, 2012 7:08 PM in response to Bassplayuh

If you can stretch your budget (quite a bit actually, but you can find deals on the net) I can't recommend the RME Fireface 800 models enough. Lots of I/O, never EVER had a crash, and the drivers and tools are rock solid. RME also makes a FF400 which has less I/O, but also costs less. The sound is steller, and it has no discernable noise. These are Firewire interfaces, but they just camme out with one that also talks USB.

Pete

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Bassplayuh Author

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Aug 28, 2012 8:45 AM in response to Pete_in_FL

Hi Pete

Thanks for the info. Based on how you and others responded, plus one other discussion in here, and a talk with a music rep, I decided to go with an RME babyface, as that will suffice for now and allow me to expand later if necessary.

Regards

Joyce

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