Cubase Se And Dongle Woes..., Struggling Mac newbie begs for help! Options

[Adrian Delso]

I recently bought a second-hand G4 Powermac Dual Processor. 450mhz, 256mb RAM, 60gb HD, with OS Xv1.5

I installed Mac Panther, because you can't upgrade from 10.1 to 10.2.8 any more.

After struggling with a Firewire410, I traded it for a M-Audio Ozone USB interface/keyboard and the Steingberg Studio Case.

The Ozone works fine under Panther - pre-amps, MIDI, interface, everything.

I then installed Cubase SE. Again, no problems at first...until I tried to print out a section of the manual. The printer no longer worked. I removed the Cubase dongle, updated the printer drivers and tried again. Phew!

Next morning, I installed the VSTis in the Studio Case - D'cotaSE, HALlionSE,Virtual Guitarist EESEGrooveAgentSE and The GrandSE. Cubase struggled to recognise them via the Devices>Virtual Instruments menu.

Then the mouse stopped working; then the keyboard stopped working; then Cubase repeatedly "terminated unexpectedly", every time I tried to open it. Then the printer packed up again!

I only have two USB slots on the back of the Mac and so, am using a four-port, powered USB hub. The Ozone interface goes into the Mac and the keyboard, scanner, printer and dongle are in the hub. The mouse is off the keyboard.(In fact, the mouse has just stopped, as I write. , until I stuck it into the hub.)

I feel that the problem is here, but don't have enough knowledge to correct it. Can any of you guys spot anything obvious?

(I can't find any new drivers specifically for Cubase SE and I don't know whether SL or SX is the right one.)

[Adrian Delso]

Thank you for taking the trouble to respond - I guess you're right and I will now have to wait for Apple and the music software guys to issue patches, etc until things work together. I wish could have got hold of Jaguar, but my timing was wrong!

I am now running Logic Express 6 through a m-Audio Ozone USB Audio interface. I have upgraded Panther to 10.3.2 and things are a little better. I am having more RAM installed someday soon. I have been spending way too much time with Logic tech support, as the manual is incomprehensible and the Tutorial CD it refers to, is officially 'not supplied'. Go figure.