Hi Presonus users

I have a firebox which doesn't sync up properly with my mac when I first switch it on. The presonus website says to go into the audio manager, switch to a different sample rate and then change back to the correct one. This seems to sort things out on some occasions but the best way just seems to be to pull the firewire cable out and shove it back in again. I'm not too keen on doing this and it doesn't seem very elegant. Does everyone else have to do this or is it just me?

Thanks

Andy

I've had some issues with the FB - not by itself but when combined with other firewire gear. The solution for me was to daisy-chain all firewire peripherals to one FW port on my iMac 20" with the firebox first in the chain (closest to the iMac). My problem was that every time there was reading from or writing to an external disk the firebox would go offline. I could restore it with the audio utility you mentioned but it would lose sync again the moment there was any disk activity. Thankfully the daisy-chaining sorted that out, but I still have to re-establish sync with the audio utility from time to time. I don't think it's a good idea to hotplug the interface - some very knowledgeable people on this forum advised me NOT to do it.

If you search the forum you'll probably find my original post. Hopes this is helpful

Cheers,

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If it sounds GOOD to YOU, it's bitchen; and if it sounds BAD to YOU, it's
shitty. -FZ

I remember these complaints a while back. I posted this message on the Firebox forum with a possible solution.

However, this was going back a while and I'm sure the newer SDK is part of more recent OS updates. What OS and machine are you using?

Try switching to s/pdif, then back again to analog - or vice versa.

Mine's hooked up to a Tampa mic pre via s/pdif. It is also FW daisy-chained - iMac to Firebox to TC Powercore Compact. It only loses sync if I switch off the Tampa (understandably). The above remedy always sorts it out.

Hi Everyone, thanks for your help. I will try changing the way my firewire stuff is plugged in. At the moment I have the Firebox on one bus and my hard drive on the 800mhz bus. I will try daisy chaining them with the firebox first on the 400mhz bus.

My machine is a 2.66 iMac with 4 Meg ram running Leopard. I did have problems on my 1.8 dual G5 but they seemed to iron themselves out.

Anyway, thanks again

Andy