![]() ![]() Today I tried to use MIDI for the first time. I cannot get rid of the two sets of drivers for the Presonus in 'System Preferences'Ĥ. Having said that, sometimes I will inexplicably lose the ability to record, often during the middle of a project or during trackingģ. under 'Problems' above), this is not essential, and I can record (most of the time, as I said above). Although it would be nice to send different monitor output mixes to my headphone amp (see 1. Before making the above changes, I changed the system drive to a brand new, never used, hard drive.ġ. I reinstalled OS X 10.6.2 three times in order to try to get rid of the problemģ. I tried to uninstall the Firestudio drivers and software and erase all trace of them from the system, by following instructions I found on the Presonus website (I found the Presonus people very unhelpful - although several people on the forums were more helpful)Ģ. In order to accommodate the new version of GB, I upgraded my OS to OS X 10.6.2ġ. A few months ago, I upgraded to Garageband '09, 5.1 (398), but had had the above problems before this.Ħ. ![]() The crazy thing here is that I can hear the playback only when the Mac 'System Preferences' is set to 'Presonus Firestudio' for both Input and Output, and the GB 'System Preferences' for Input and Output are each set to 'Presonus 1394' - if I choose the same named drivers for the Mac and GB 'System Preferences', I cannot hear anything when the track is playing.ĥ. One of the 'wrinkles' is that there are two different drivers installed for the Firestudio in the Mac and GB 'System Preferences' - one is called 'Presonus Firestudio', and the other is called 'Presonus 1394).Ĥ. On other occasions, though, I can't get the computer to record at all: on those occasions I can't even hear previously recorded material in GB, although I can see it playing.ģ. Sometimes, the computer records perfectly, although there is something wrong with the software interface for the Firestudio as it is impossible to set different output/monitoring headphone levels for each track (I have had an audio pro who deals exclusively in Mac products come and try to troubleshoot this on two occasions, and he is clueless about this specific problem).Ģ. I bought the Mac Pro specifically for use as a DAW and have not used it for anything else - I think that I have only connected to the net on a few occasions with it.ġ. ![]() Actually, I have always had many, many problems with GarageBand despite my Mac Pro being 'empty' of all files except those created in the program.ġ TB HD space (combination of several empty, new hard drives)įirestudio 26 x 26 Firewire Audio Interface / Preamp Although I have been recording for many years, I have never used MIDI before, and am having a problem getting GarageBand to recognize it. ![]()
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