March 1, 2005
OS 10.3 and M-Audio sound card
For the benefit of fellow musicians who also can't hear any sound after installing the latest driver on their M-Audio sound card, I am enclosing Tech Support's reply. Might I add that M-Audio's support staff rock!
REPAIR DISK PERMISSIONSOn your OS X system drive, go in the Applications>Utilities folder and double-click the Disk Utility. Select your system boot volume on the left (the named drive), and then click the First Aid tab on the right and click the button on that page that says Repair Disk Permissions.
This will take a few minutes, it is a general maintenance routine for the OS, very important to ensure the proper functioning of MIDI and audio.
It is also recommended that you uninstall all your M-Audio driver software through the Terminal utility, reinstall with the latest version from our website, and then repair your disk permissions (see below). After this, you should reinstall the newest driver.
Follow these instructions to erase the old driver:
It is sometimes necessary to completely remove a previous installation of the packages and files that are installed with your M-Audio interface. In OS X, especially 10.3.x, the only way to safely remove all of the components of an install is to log in as the root user, or to use the Terminal utility.
You may use the Terminal utility to remove the previous installation of the driver. This requires that you be careful however, and enter the commands exactly as stated. The OSX Terminal utility requires precision in its command line. Unless the command is entered correctly serious damage can be done to your OS. Commands are case sensitive.
First of all, do a search (Apple key + F) for m-audio and leave the results window open.
Next, open the Terminal utility (in your hard drive, look in Applications-->Utilities-->Terminal) and type:
sudo rm -R
Make sure that you type the space bar after the capital R, in other words:
sudo_rm_-R_
Now drag the file names into the Terminal window from the search results window and they will be correctly entered there. There must be a space between each filename.
Be careful not to move the files which are not related to M-Audio software, there may be some unrelated files which turn up as a result of your search.
After dragging all the files into the Terminal window so their names appear, hit Enter and you will prompted for your administrator password. Type your password and then hit Enter.
If at any point the Terminal asks you if you wish to override permissions, simply hit 'y' and Enter again.
After doing this, repeat the same search with the search terms 'maudio' and 'm audio' and erase them as well using the same procedure.
Please be aware that if you have more than one M-Audio interface, or have downloaded an M-Audio driver from our website that the search will show these results as well.
Posted by vantan at 11:03 PM
February 27, 2005
It never ends...
Drat. I was all ready to sing into my Shure 58A microphone, only to realise that 'In order to preserve its high dynamic range and minimize distortion, the Audiophile 2496 [my audio and MIDI card] does not have microphone preamplifiers built into it.'
So I need to get a 'mic preamp'. Know of any good models?
Update:
I just realised the clock in the studio is a noisy ticker. Maybe I ought to replace it with a digital one so it won't affect the audio recordings. More money again...
Also I just upgraded my M-Audio driver. It's supposed to fix MIDI sync errors. Thank goodness, I did have problems with that occasionally.
Posted by vantan at 12:19 AM
July 14, 2004
MIDI interface and sound card
I just bought the M-Audio Audiophile 2496 sound card cum MIDI interface. I have to install it in my G5. I certainly hope this isn't the last message I type on my G5!
Posted by vantan at 6:21 PM
