FW400 to 800 is actually just a cable. No electronics. So any one should work.

It's often advised to connect everything with power off. I feel that's mostly because of less than ideal connections on some PC hardware. Mostly PCI FW cards where the shielding tin is so weak you can plugin the cable the wrong way around. That's deadly for the hardware, as power is reversed.

I've personally hot-plugged my FF400 hundreds of times and dozens of harddisks probably thousands of times without any problem on a Mac.

Impressive as always Matthias! RME simply are the best.

Happy user since late 90s now. Leave a trail of RME audio wherever I do work.
Current workplace has 16 rooms RME equipped.

Will be waiting for next iteration of Mx silicone before we make that leap though.

Best,
Pål

Apologies if this is not the place to post this, but I've just got a Mac mini M1 and I've installed the drivers without issue. The problem I'm having is updating the firmware to 2.77 - the flash update seems restricted to up to the Mojave OS. Is there a new update on the way or a work around... at the moment I get audio through the Fireface 800 but it sounds bitcrushed. Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi! Can someone confirm that loopback works on M1?

I cannot get loopback signal to DAW on M1. Works fine on older Intel Mac. I tried to double check for human error.
Macbook Pro M1,
macOS Big Sur 11.1,
Babyface fw 2.25,
RME USB driver 3.24.
Reaper 6.19 beta macOS-arm64

edit: "Have you also checked System preferences/Security & privacy for programs allowed to get audio input (represented by a mic icon)?"

That might be the problem. I have no apps in there. But there is no add button! Wonder how to add an app there.

edit2: Seems like this is Reaper bug

Hi,

I'm trying to run a Fireface 400 into a silicon Mac Mini on Big Sur 11.1 but all I get is flashing lights.

I've upgraded to the new driver and it doesn't crash the machine any more

Is this a power issue? I'm bus powering at the moment, using a TB3 to TB2 -> TB2 to FW800 -> FW800 to FW400 chain of adapters. Will an NTRME2 solve my issues?

Thanks!

Thanks Jeff.

Hi,

i've purchase an mini mac M1, (hope i'm in the right thread)

i finally (after a little bit of anxious sweating )   succed in installing
Total mix, and got my baby face pro (usb)  working well...
except for the midi in/out 
it was working perfectly well before, on a mini mac intel , but now, it seem like nothing goes in whatever i'm trying to do ( i connect a yamaha P_35 to the midi "in"  doesn't work with the "out" either

i connected a small usb keyboard to the mac directly, and that way midi's fine...but i wish my main keyboard would have work...any body got the same problem ? or an idea ? or ...THE answer ?   thx

Andreas,

You don't mention which version of the driver you have installed. Did you get version 3.24 for macOS Big Sur from https://www.rme-audio.de/downloads.html? I use a Babyface Pro on macOS Big Sur 11.1 myself and the 3.24 driver, which is the same driver download as for the Fireface UC, works for me.

The /Library/Extensions/spl.kext path mentioned in the error message you posted does not look like an RME kernel extension to me, and I also don't have it on my system. Googling for it looks like it might be part of ZFS, or maybe something else you installed. Maybe you could try to uninstall that or at least temporarily move that kernel extension somewhere else to see if that helps?

Is the UC in AP mode or in PC mode?

The power supply arrived today and everything seems to be working.

Thanks again.

hello everyone, i have opened a topic yesterday regarding an issue i have with the FF400, os 11.1 and my M1 mbp, but i figured that its probably better to ask here, so the other thread can be deleted. https://forum.rme-audio.de/viewtopic.ph … 60#p164260

the ff400 is working great, except the midi ports are not detected, (not in the system nor in the daw), im using the latest driver for M1, and i checked, the Fireface MIDI.plugin is properly installed at /Library/Audio/MIDI Drivers but is somehow not detected / recognized. anyone ever encountered that / have an advice?

Works fine for me. I use a Babyface Pro with driver version 3.24 on macOS 11.1.

Hey there

Got a new MacBook Pro M1 (with usb c ports) and followed the instructions below for the setup of Total Mix for my babyface. Unfortunately, the only thing I hear is a huge beep when connecting the usb cable and the the lights on my babyface go to red.

Any ideas what this could be?

Thanks for any advice!

P

Procedure is as follows:

- Boot the M1 computer in Recovery mode (turn it on with the power button pressed until the screen shows the startup options are loaded)

- Select Options, then your language

- In the top menu go to Utilities -> Startup Security Utility. Select the system where the RME drivers will be installed

- Continue with -> Security Policy -> Reduced Security -> Allow user management of kernel extensions from identified developers.

- Reboot

- Install the RME driver.  Before the reboot for finishing the driver installation open System Preferences, Security & Privacy, tab General. There should be a grey Allow button in the right lower area. Click the unlock symbol first, then confirm using the RME kernel extension. Finally reboot.

Hi, I am new to the RMW world. Thanks for adding me here. I recently purchased a RME Babyface Pro FS. So far, it runs fine with my MacBook M1 Air. The only issue is that everytime I plug it in I have to
1. restart the Mac so that the Babyface can even bee seen in the audio settings
2. than change the security settings after a pop-up message appears
3. reboot the Mac once more.

So, is there a possibility that my Mac remembers the RME even when it is plugged off for a while? At least my security settings should remember that I trust RME as a third-party provider. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for your support,

best regards
David

Hi I wonder if anyone can help please. I’m trying to install OS11 driver on a late 2015 Intel IMac to run a UC. I have followed all instructions over many hours and have never seen the ‘allow’ button in Security and Privacy. App Store and identified developers seems to be sufficient. After restart, the total mix window does not appear, when opening the apps manually there’s no communication with the UC. The Fireface doesn’t come up in the sound prefs or Logic. I’ve tried plugging in UC usb at different points and made sure it’s set to Apple not PC. This is the first time I’ve had a problem in about 12 years and my UC has always been rock solid. I desperately need to finish some work, any help gratefully received. Paul Cuddeford

P.s. just finally seen that my firmware is at version 116, the flash update goes from 126-138. I’ve gone through driver archives and no such luck finding a linking update. Happy to accept defeat (and buy a new box) as I’ve had many trouble free years with UC or is there a flash update that would fix this pls? I think I bought it in 2015

Hi yes I’ve been through all of it. I think because my UC is 7 years old, the flash firmware update won’t get me up to date. I can’t find one to get me from version 116 up to 126-138 so might have to buy a new box?

Ok thanks I’ll try doing that Paul

Why would you need 117? Just update straight to the latest version on any available Windows or Mac computer.

Regards
Daniel Fuchs
RME

There was no such suggestion, just a typo and information. I clearly wrote 'with the current drivers and FUT'.

Thanks for the help , it solved some problems.

I've been using the Babyface Pro FS for about 2 months now with my M1 Pro.
It's working and sounding great in general, the only thing I notice is that the volume of the main output seems to be reset often to max volume? The headphone out doesn't seem to have this problem or I might have it set to 0Db volume often so I don't notice it.

I noticed today that starting Cubase Pro 10.5 the volume of AN 1/2 was reset twice during startup after I manually lowered it directly when I noticed the volume modified. I had to lower it twice. BTW, this was during the loading of Garritan CFX samples which is rather strange?

I also downloaded a trial of Sonarworks reference HP edition which seems to have problems during the selection of the Babyface channels notifying it can't access the device and also Sonarworks sometimes overrides the audio output where I must Quit it completely to get output from the Babyface again?

EDIT: I just started Foobar with an audio file (WAV) and the volume on my AN out 1/2 was again reset to 0db!
Maybe it's good to know that the BabyFace Pro FS is connected to an Anker PowerExpand Elite via USB-C and the Anker is connected via Thunderbolt to the Macbook Pro M1. Just to rule out any issues related to the Anker which has some issues as well with networks dissapearing and hangs.

Thanks for your quick reply!

- I didn't modify the Snapshots setting AFAIR - it's set to Do not load: Main Volume which I now see that could be an issue when loading the snapshot. I've set it to --
- The Always Init DSP devices with TotalMix FX settings was off as well. I've set that to on to test.

I'll check if everything works after those modifications!
Thanks again.

Hi MC/RME! First, let me thank you for the brilliant products and excellent support throughout the years. Second, are you currently considering rewriting the drivers in a way where it won't use kernel extensions? Unfortunately I'm not able to allow it on my main computer due to the sensitive nature of work I do on it. Any chance this year?