[ardour-users] OS X Ardour - Any Presonus users?

Eric ej at ir.iit.edu
Fri Dec 2 09:20:48 PST 2005


I haven't tried other hardware...it was a friend's laptop, and she just went
back to using cuebase sx which works fine with the firebox.

On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 12:12:20PM -0500, Jesse Chappell wrote:
> I believe I might have mentioned some similar issues on the list. 
> This seems to have started happening more recently, and it only
> affects the firebox performance with JACK/ardour.  I have no problems
> when using plain CoreAudio with garageband, etc.
> 
> So, it could very well be a JACK issue.
> 
> Note that I didn't see overruns when the glitches occured.
> 
> Eric, what other hardware have you tried?
> 
> jlc
> 
> On 12/2/05, Eric <ej at ir.iit.edu> wrote:
> > There are at least two users, myself included, who have had problems with
> > dropped frames or xruns using a presonous firebox on osx.  I could not fix
> > my issues no matter how high i set the jack buffer size and eventually gave
> > up.  It's next to impossible for me to say whether it was the card or
> > whether we both just had some general ardour problem...check the list
> > archives for others' opinions.
> >
> > eric.
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 09:11:02PM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > > On 12/1/05, Jesse Chappell <jesse at essej.net> wrote:
> > > > On 12/1/05, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >    I'm looking at picking up a Presonus Firebox for small mobile
> > > > > recording jobs. I like the feature set on the box - 1394, bus powered,
> > > > > good quality company, etc., and pretty well supported by the FreeBob
> > > > > project from what I can tell so I should be able to use it under Linux
> > > > > also.
> > > > >
> > > > >    I wondered if there are any OS X Ardour users that have this unit?
> > > > > If so is it working well for you under OS X?
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