A Service Post From Modcult

For some reason, old-ass posts we’ve put up about Mac troubles have been read a zillion times, so I’m guessing they’re useful to some people. In that spirit, if you installed Snow Leopard and your machine is displaying some weird boot behavior (freezing mid boot sometimes, having that blue haze mode over your login window where you can’t type…), check that any FireWire devices you have connected are on new drivers. I had a bunch of weird problems, and I booted in verbose mode (Cmd-V during boot), and I kept seeing all these errors related to my MOTU 828mkII and some kexts. I uninstalled the drivers, installed the new Snow Leopard drivers, and it seems to work fine now. Also, the new version of CueMix is way better than the one I was running.

As far as the audio interface companies go, Mark of the Unicorn has a Snow Leopard transition page, Metric Halo has Snow Leopard-compatible drivers out (including a 64-bit mode), and, of course, Apogee is up to date. If you have anything else, it looks like you’re fucked at this point. Also, many people including me have found that if you don’t uninstall the current driver before installing the new one, problems can result. I had this problem with MOTU and I saw some posts about people having the same issue with their Apogees when I was looking. M-Audio (aka Digidesign aka Avid) says “Support for Snow Leopard is coming soon.” As I recall, M-Audio said the same thing about OS X, and then it took like a full YEAR before they updated drivers on their most recent products to work right with OS X. Digidesign blows. It’s time to start saving our pennies for Apogee gear, make sure Bob Clearmountain’s wife can keep him snacks as the big-ticket mix engineer business goes down the tubes.