- #MOTU 828 FIREWIRE HOW TO#
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- #MOTU 828 FIREWIRE UPDATE#
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How does it feel to use FireWire? It feels good. As a young man I never dreamed that I would use FireWire, or that I would ever type out a paragraph that had the word FireWire in it seven times, and yet I did and I did, in that order. I didn't own an iPod or an Apple Macintosh, and yet eight years after Apple gave up on FireWire I now own four FireWire cables. During the entire lifespan of FireWire, roughly 1999-2012, I didn't use it. To paraphrase Oscar Gamble, no matter how much you think things will be like they are, they don't. NB I have no commercial relationship with MOTU other audio interfaces exist.
#MOTU 828 FIREWIRE DRIVERS#
MOTU's vintage interfaces are particularly interesting because the company still updates the drivers for its vintage gear, and even hosts the manuals, which are full of charming photos of musicians installing PCI cards into their Power Macintosh G4s and running software with OS9. Brand-new the two interfaces above would have cost £1,800 for the pair, but I paid around one-tenth that amount because there are lots available on the second-hand market. They're both physically tough 19" rackmount units. The PCI card could run four 2408s simultaneously so MOTU sold standalone 2408s as expansion units. During its life the 2408 system sold for around $1,000 with the card or $700 without. There were three generations, released in 1998, 2000, and 2002 the final, Mk3 version remained on sale until the mid-2000s, by which time FireWire 800 and USB 2 had made PCI audio interfaces obsolescent. It was launched in 1998 and used a PCI card to connect to the host computer. If however you are an attractive young lady and you would like to "hook up" please get in touch via the comments. I would check, but the last time I went downstairs I upset a bottle of pee and it took ages for the smell to die down. They're multi-channel, multi-format devices with balanced 1/4" audio jacks and a bunch of digital interfaces that I will probably never use.Ī bunch of digital interfaces that I will probably never use, just like the box of condoms I bought back in 2008, when it seemed that I might finally get lucky. Thus equipped I committed to liaisons and although the 8 are ancient they're still useful today.
Millennium.Īround the turn of the millennium my accommodation was embarrassing, but an acquaintance helped me acquire a driving licence and, concomitantly, a car. It's two-two, like accommodate or embarrass.
#MOTU 828 FIREWIRE HOW TO#
They were both released around the turn of the millennium, give or take a couple of years, and I never thought I'd have to remember how to spell the word millennium in the year 2020 but here we are. From top to bottom the MOTU 828 Mk1 and the MOTU 2408 Mk3. Yes, they now have a newer USB 3.1 version but you can't plug your FW device into it.Let's have a look at a couple of old audio interfaces. Unfortunately, the Thunderbolt version of this dock is discontinued but I found mine on eBay. It has a pair of TB ports so, when I want to use my 828mkII, the Apple FW–TB adapter plugs into that and daisy-chain works as it should. I have a TB2 twin-drive dock with a pair of 4TB SATA III SSDs going into my TB2–TB3 adapter. You have 30 minutes to do this after installing the drivers or you have to reinstall and try again.
#MOTU 828 FIREWIRE MAC#
Yes, although Apple has released drivers for Big Sur, there is no implied compatibility with future MacOS.įor now, this still applies on a Mac if High Sierra or later.
#MOTU 828 FIREWIRE UPDATE#
You want to be careful with updates: as Mike points out, the 828 is not supported by MOTU, so if there is some OS security update that doesn't like the looks of the MOTU driver or FW, there won't be a fix. I'm tempted to buy the first two adaptors and connect up my FW 828-3 just so I can see it working. and my 828MKII showed up in my Sound prefs and is working great!
I just received my Apple Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 adapter, connected it to an Apple FW to Thunderbolt adaptor, swapped out my old FW 400 cable for a new FW400>800 cable, plugged it into my 2018 Mac Mini (i5, 3.0GHz, 32 gig ram, running Big Sur 11.4), downloaded the MOTU driver v4.
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