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By: Armando C

Armando C — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:21:53 +0000

Still seeing no issues. Using a Presonus Firestudio on 10.5.3 Mac pro 2.66 (First Gen) 4 gigs of ram. M-Audio has been pretty unreliable, anyone using a Firewire 410 with issues?

By: Stefan

Stefan — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 20:29:50 +0000

I’m having problems with my fast track pro. I already had it with 10.5.2. It’s some kind of distortion coming out of the fasttrack. It isn’t my monitors because the distortion is also coming from the headphone output. I’m not having the problems always, sometimes when I restart or switch off and put back on the fasttrack the problems are gone. I recently installed the 10.5.3 update, still having the same problem. Really don’t know what to do….

greetings

By: mark

mark — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:41:23 +0000

Drats. 10.5.3 does not fix my problem with the M-Audio Fast Track Pro. I can’t even use iTunes, as a loud digital sound threatens to blow out my speakers and amps. Okay, now I’m not going to blame Apple anymore, but M-Audio, I’m looking at you…

By: Fabio FZero

Fabio FZero — Thu, 29 May 2008 02:14:43 +0000

I recently bought a macbook that came with OSX 10.5.2 pre-installed. I have a M-Audio Fast Track Pro soundcard and I really didn’t have any problems running Live, Reason or Audacity. Anyway, I’ve just upgraded to 10.5.3 and everything is alright so far. The video performance seems a little bit snappier, which is good. Audio is as good as before. I’ll keep you guys posted if anything weird happens.

By: contakt321

contakt321 — Thu, 29 May 2008 02:14:00 +0000

I upgraded, sadly my PreSonus FireBox still isn’t being recognized even though it’s sync-ing. I am tempted to just sell this thing. I havent been able to get it to work for the month I have had it and don’t have the time nor patience for tech support.

That being said - PreSonus’ tech support via email has been great. I just want a working interface. Apple is bumming me out.

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:32:12 +0000

Mark, I’d give it a shot. M-Audio is behind on their Leopard drivers, so 10.5.3 may still not work, but it’s worth a try. I think the next thing that will happen is, if 10.5.3 *is* more stable, it’ll encourage more action on the developer side.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 28 May 2008 20:20:05 +0000

Sorry Peter, I didn’t quite understand… I spoke with M-Audio this morning, after the update, and they of course offered no insight. What is your advice? Should folks try and download 10.5.3, and hope this fixes our problems? Or should we wait for the vendors, which could be forever… Anybody download 10.5.3 and find your audio is happy again?

By: Richie Allen

Richie Allen — Wed, 28 May 2008 17:46:27 +0000

AND HERE IT IS!!!!! !0.5.3 is NOW OUT! Pretty hefty update, too. ~420MB for my C2D MBP.

By: Peter Kirn

Peter Kirn — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:43:54 +0000

@Mark: no, my sense from M-Audio and Digidesign was, explicitly, you can expect them to target a fixed update, not 10.5.2. The major changes to the driver model were in 10.5; these are bug fix releases from Apple.