clipping sound on new iMac when Logix X is running

It also sounds similar to several people who've posted regaring problems with the Maestro software, I'm thinking they don't have all the Maverick kinks worked out yet.

Hi, did not read all of your conversation and maybe I am boring you, but I really have the same problem with my APOGEE-Ensemble and made all thinkable troubleshooting you can think of. I am pretty sure it is not an HW- or configuration problem as I had this problem with my DUET Firewire and the ENSEMBLE, on different iMACS (bought for this reason a complete new iMAC :-( ) with- or without loaded Maestro, on complete new installations with SL and MAVERICKS !!. And if you try to play musik with the build in mediabrowser out of LP-X, you will recognice the same issue after a couple of minutes. (sometimes it takes 20 minutes before it appears the 1st time)

Workaround at least for me was, to set the soundsettings in Mevericks to internal (only the output) and connected a fiber between the optical out of the imac and optical in of the ensemble, configured an AUX input channel on that and now, no clicks, no clippings or other strange things on the audio output. Should not be the solution, but as workaround it is ok.

So, Apple and Apogee! Would be great if you could get this issue solved!

Btw: NO problem if I connect a PRESONUS- FIRETUBE instead of APOGEE! This works fine, If you are interested in the thread I opened: "Logic Pro X and APOGEE Ensemble/Duet"

AND: Sorry about my bad english!

Pancenter wrote:

It also sounds similar to several people who've posted regaring problems with the Maestro software, I'm thinking they don't have all the Maverick kinks worked out yet.

Yes.. +1.. and that's part of the overall issue here.. that all these various causes, produce similar symptoms resulting in a general confusion over which one (or combinations of) is the root cause... in each case.

Heck.... some people could have three or more causes...in certain situations!

OK, now I'm really starting to lose patience. Last night I cloned off my FD to a USB3 3TB bootable disk, used the macworld instructions to split the drive, installed OSX on the mech partition as instructed, then tried to boot off the USB drive.

I'd seen this before doing this, but the **** machine will not boot off the usb drive. It shows the drive in an option-boot, I can select it, but then it cranks for about a minute then shuts off the drive. (

It's not the drive. I can boot off it on my laptop. It's the freaking USB bus on this lousy machine. So now I can't get my stuff back on the machine.

This machine is a disaster. Opening a new case today and demanding a new machine.

#^&$#&@^$&^#.

Noel,

One sec...

If you cloned your FD to an external HD.. just boot off the external HD.... and so long as you don't use or access the FD you didn't need to split it... You would just boot off the external drive itself...

Well, I tried that, but there's too much going on, and something was accessing the drive...it didn't work.

But now, I can't boot off the drive at all, so that point is moot. It's a powered drive, it boots on my laptop, but on my iMac it tries to boot it, then shuts the drive off.

Argh.

but on my iMac it tries to boot it, then shuts the drive off.

Sorry, but can you give a bit more detail as to what you mean by this statement?

For example, when does it shut the drive off? At what point in the boot process?

I'm booting off an external HD with a 2013 iMac via the USB3 ports without any issue here... and others haven't reported any issues either in doing so... so i suspect something else is going on..

What is the brand and model of your external HD?

I suppose your external HDD is USB 3? Did you try using a USB 2 cable, extension cable or USB 2 hub to 'dumb the connection down' to USB 2. I had the same problem (and still have): can use my USB 3 disks without a problem except if I want to boot from them. That only seems to work over USB 2.

My disks are LaCie btw, their support couldn't help me but it's prob an incompatibility between their firewire and the USB 3 on the iMac.

RReye,

Thanks for that... The drive I am booting from is a USB2 drive.. don't have a USB3 Ext drive here to test, so thats an interesting point you make....

Funny...I tried it direct to iMac, and through 2 different USB3 hubs, but I didn't think to try booting off a USB2 hub. I'll give that a shot when I get home.

Something tells me that is likely to work.

Otoh, that doesn't fill me with confidence about the USB tech on this iMac at all, but let's see if it works.

Thanks for the suggestion...

Hi, just thought I'd let you know, 1st problem encountered. Quartet doesn't respond properly to the Mac coming out of sleep mode (as opposed to booting up as normal, which seems to be fine). It lights up but doesn't respond or throughput any audio. Switching it off and on again causes pops in the audio until Logic is quit and re-started.

in my last post, pls read 'firewire' as 'firmware', don't know why that was autocorrected :-)

Had a lengthy discussion with LaCie support and my conclusion was definitely it was the LaCie implementation that is giving these boot problems. USB 2 works though it's slower of course. I only use these disks as backups and I can create the backups over USB 3, so it's less of a problem that I can only boot from them over a USB 2 connection.

I would love to hear if others can boot over USB 3 and what brand though, since I would feel uncomfortable buying LaCie USB 3 again for use with my Mac.

Mine is a Seagate 3TB model SRD00F2. I'll let you know...