Logic 5.5 , Os X, And Motu 828 Help Options

[E rouge]

just updated to OS X and logic 5.5 , but i am having weird problems...

for one, I can only have 2 outputs for my 828.... there is no ASIO, its only Core audio, so i cant see the motu 828 driver.

Also, when playing my supernova 2 keyboard, it plays fine through the motu 828, but when I play an audio instrument like esx24, it comes out of the front tiny speaker of my 867 MDD g4! Weird...maybe someone can help me...

[Levon River]

Since 15 November 2002 there has been the 1.0 version of the OS X driver for the MOTU 828 sitting in the briar patch over on VersionTracker. I must have posted this about, what-- Five times now?

If you go to the MOTU website (which seems the logical place to download software updates for their own products) you will see that this product is a Public Beta.

I know how to find a web site. And if *you* download the software and install it (which you haven't), then get "Info" on the "MOTUFireWireAudio.kext" file, you will find a bright and shiny "1.0.0," NOT a "1.0b1"--which is what the blurb on MOTU's download page says the file is, and which is what they once had on the site for downloading according to the information I have. MOTU is notorious for being slow about updating text on their web pages. I haven't deconstructed their software to determine what, if any, changes they made between 1.0b1 and 1.0.0, and neither have the wankers whining on VersionTracker that it's the "same" file as before (when it was earlier released clearly labled as BETA). And neither have you, by the way.

Both the public beta AND the "1.0" versions were announced separately--that's separately--on VersionTracker by MOTU.

So if MOTU is confused about their own software, and VersionTracker is passing along that confusion, and some clown on VersionTracker decides to pronounce that it's all the same, and you want to buy into that "expert opinion," be my guest. As far as I know, the mages at MOTU decided that their beta was good enough for 1.0.0. It's their software; that's their call to make--not yours, not mine.

I've reported, accurately, that a 1.0 version was announced by MOTU on VersionTracker. And I've confirmed that the current file, when installed, has no "b" in it anywhere, but has "1.0.0."

If you feel MOTU is somehow abusing software version numbering conventions, take it up with them--*not* with me:

info@motu.com

In the meantime, the facts as I reported them--what, about six times now?--are accurate: MOTU has publicly released, through VersionTracker, what THEY are publicly calling 1.0 versions, both of their firewire drivers for OS X, and of their USB MIDI drivers for OS X. Period, paragraph, and end of my participation in dancing 'round the May pole waving airy pink ribbons.

If you've still got an issue with the facts as MOTU has presented them, please refer to the handy e-mail address included for your convenience above. Won't even cost you a stamp.