El Capitan using apogee duet

Exactly my experience - very frustrating

Great! Thanks

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thank you so much! this really does work! and i was just about to put my old firewire duet up for sale, which i didn't want to do because it's such a nice sounding device.

After 4 hours of stuffing around - I followed Oliver's words of wisdom and I'm back on deck 🙂

Oliver, I used your technique to get my Firewire Duet working with El Capitan a few months ago (thank you!). Wondering if you've tried this with Sierra?

Good News! Rumor (in this thread) has it that uninstalling Duet Firewire and then reinstalling it works. I can confirm this is true. My situation:

I'd been using a Mackie Onyx Blackbird 16 for years, but every update of Mac OS since Snow Leopard made it harder to get it working again. Mackie hasn't released drivers for it since then, so we needed all kinds of Terminal hacks to get it back online. Until finally, in El Capitan, the only way to get it working and keep it working is to turn off System Integrity Protection and leave it off. And I've had enough of that crap. So I pulled the Mackie out of the rig and put it on eBay, then broke out the ol' Apogee Duet FW that I'd retired years ago...

Now, I had done a clean install of El Capitan, and so there was no previous version of Duet Firewire on my Mac. I went to Apogee and got the latest installer and ran it. Rebooted, hooked up the Duet, and... Apogee Maestro just doesn't see it. No software control of the Duet. Poop.

So I went looking for answers and found this thread. I left the Duet attached to the Mac, ran the uninstaller, rebooted, then ran the installer again. I kept the Duet plugged into the Mac the whole time. This time, after reboot, the OS popped up and asked me if I wanted to use the device for audio. "Oh, yes!", I said.

Launched Apogee Maestro, crossed my fingers, and... Success! It does see the device. I haven't tested all functions yet, but I have no reason to think it will not work.

Good Luck, boys and girls.

It works!! Thanks a lot!

I had not been able to use the Maestro software ever since Mavericks.🙂

Awesome!