Mac USB driver for macOS 11 & Apple Silicon hardware (Page 5 of 9)

My babyface has worked perfectly since I went back to Catalina.

Hi! I’m not good with using Terminal and I’m wondering if I am somehow entering the information wrong… Could you explain (for dummies) how I would go about executing all those commands using terminal? I feel like I’ve tried inputting those commands wrong and that’s why it isn’t working…so, any help is appreciated please and thank you.

Found a bug: I use Fireface UFX+ over Thunderbolt on Mac Mini M1 latest OS update. In Logic when I choose Auto sampler it adds a midi input as intended but completely destroys the audio. Even when I close autosampler only metallic sounds come from speaker (the metallic sounds get also sampled). Only way to fix is either turn off and on the interface (works even with autosampled enabled) or by restarting Logic. Reproducable every time.

I didn’t connect with USB yet as I don’t have any other issues. I can change Bitrate and sample size without problems. Just when I put Auto sampler it happens so far.

That works fine. I can also run Auto Sampler turn off the Interface turn it on again and it works fine in autosampler. But I have to do this every time I fire up the autosampler.

not sure if I'm in the right place with this question/issue.

I have a digiface USB connected to a 2020 MacBook Pro.
This machine crashes from time to time during playing music from a network drive. For info both the NIC and RME Digiface USB are on the same USB hub. Also I run Wavelab with the IO of this RME interface.
Everything worked perfect under Catalina. Lowest buffer settings no problem, switching back and forth between outputs on the Mac itself no issues.
Then last year upon upgrading to the 1st release of Big Sur everything still worked perfect.
It may be during one of the latest releases of Big Sur that the stability of my Mac is now no longer perfect, as it crashes now and then.
I had driver v3.24 installed. I had thereafter found v3.25 on the RME website. After upgrade still the crash of the system happens. After downgrade to driver v3.24 still the same.

As such I have reinstalled entirely my Mac. It seems to work perfect with USB audio outputs that are NOT the RME Digiface. But as soon as I seem to use the RME Digiface USB (I have only installed driver v3.25) the sound via the Digiface USB gets dropouts, and after playing back / forth or switching the audio device to something else back/forth between internal output and Digiface USB it seems that the system slows down and slows down, until no response and the only solution is to shut it down.
After restart it shows that the system was improperly shut down etc with various blah.

I have then disconnected the Digiface USB and then the system seems to run fine?

Any case a long story, just to give you all the info available. Any idea what to do with the Digiface to get it up and running stably?

Thanks,

all worked perfectly and fine on OSX Catalina

> For info both the NIC and RME Digiface USB are on the same USB hub

Why you not try a different USB port?

Noticed I was sharing a complete USB bus between the Digiface and other devices.
Put the Digiface on its own bus and extended it back on my fav USB2 ext cable and it runs fine already for 10 hours.
Hoping the issues keep resolved. Too bad for Mac there's not the USB diagnosis offered in the Win driver.
Breun, MC ,Thanks for the thoughts!

Second I don't know (different OS / installation...), but first is here:

https://forum.rme-audio.de/viewtopic.php?id=33277

Follow-up to previous post.

I decided to take the risk/experiment of installing a third driver (Yamaha MODX USB driver to create aggregate device with RME Babyface Pro).

But this time after approving in System Preferences, I also selected restart *in System Preferences* rather than *in the installer* (both present a restart button). I then got a message like "rebuilding system extension cache" or something like this.

And now all three drivers work - RME, Yamaha, and Intel. The Intel Power Gadget has sprung back into life!

So it seems very important to select restart in System Preferences (and not just jump back to the installer) after approving a driver.

Hope this helps someone.

This one?

https://forum.rme-audio.de/viewtopic.php?id=33277

Else you need to provide more details than 'shows nothing'.

How did you „fix the problem“? Everytime I type the command mentioned above in terminal, I‘m getting the response missing expected argument ˋ—volume-root <volume-root>´ What am I doing wrong?

Cheers,
Philip

So this one did not work? Or you did not write MacintoshHD?

> Default hard drive name is Macintosh HD, where the space has to be omitted.

Thanks for the clarification. Spaces are allowed between quotation marks, that's a universal rule.

For TB driver make sure the unit is in Interface Mode TB and not connected to USB. Power it off/on while connected, this might trigger detection.

That post was about the UFX+. The FF800 does not have Thunderbolt.

Hi ALL,
Glad I found this thread as I been going nuts over this.
OSX Big Sur 11.5.2
RME FF802 connected to Ferrofish Pulse 16 MX over ADAT.
No issue when Total Mix pops up that I can see so far but if I reboot Total Mix will come up blank and I believe this is because the RME device is not available in the system.

Run the command in terminal it all pops up.
Install again the Total Mix pops up but after reboot all is gone.

Went into Recovery Mode and did the commands but with reboot same situation.

BTW never get the security prompt in OSX to allow it just installs after password authentication.

FIXED :  FF 800 not connecting after Big Sur 11.6 update. Driver not showing.

I tried all the kernel reset suggestions and multiple installs, what resolved it for me was installing 'driver_fw_mac_339'

I'm scared to run 'driver_fw_mac_340' again but my gut feeling it would work now.

Either way the older driver on the new system is working for me.

Hope this helps.

Macintosh HD is not the same as MacintoshHD, keep the space between the words correct.

Hi all members and support,

I installed new version BIG SUR 11.6 and connected the FF800 RME, installed the drive again, and it worked, but when I restart the MAC everything is the same, it does not recognize the FF800, but if I reinstall the drive again, it recognizes the FF800 in the system, but the system forces you to restart the MAC and everything becomes the same.

Any help, is it, any permission is not accepted at system startup? and if so, what is it?

At this point I re-installed and FF800 is working without rebooting, but it requires a reboot.

iMac running macOS 11.6 and RME Fireface UCX II running latest firmware and USB Driver 3.26. UCX II missing after restart. Reinstalling USB Driver fixes it until next reboot. Very frustrating. Love the audio interface but this bug makes it annoying.

Update: Following the instructions from post #166 fixed the issue for me. Now after rebooting my iMac, the UCX II is back up and TotalMix starts.

hello all, so at some point, like many others here my FF400 stopped working with my m1 MBP (running big 11.6)
after booting to recovery mode, i ran the extension panic command, when rebooting it prompted that i will need to re allow permissions but the permissions did not appear in system prefs. then i ran the extension panic command again, and installed the latest 3.40 drivers, then i could enable the drivers in system prefs, i restarted my system via the RME installer but still nothing. any ideas?

Hello,

I am using an M1 Mac Mini with RME Babyface Pro. I've read through this thread and followed all the instructions...

I rebooted in recovery mode and enabled the security settings that allow me to run kernel extensions that I choose

I downloaded the current drivers for Babyface Pro (327)

I then installed them

But when I check my security settings to allow the kernel extensions, nothing shows up

I also started Totalmix and Fireface usb settings to see if they would trigger the "allow" option, and nothing happens

I then tried restarting my computer to see if maybe that would trigger something, still nothing

Also tried opening up those apps again to see if they trigger the "allow" button after rebooting, again nothing

I don't know what to do at this point. I've gone through all of these steps multiple times and nothing seems to be working.

Please help!

just coming back here to report that it was all the PSU fault, which have seemed to die on me and also cause the unreliable connectivity issues. i wonder if the new M1 computers are more sensible to that? since the psu had no issues to power on the FF400 but connecting was always a problem. i changed it to another 2A 12v (in my case its an elektron 2A psu) and everything is working fine on 11.6. what i did notice and might help other users is that the way to get my FF400 always recognized is to connect it AFTER the MBP was turned on, booted and logged in. if i do this in this order i can put it to sleep, connect, reconnect and it will work fine.

Thanks, Pål. I've seen spaces or quotes help in some case, but there didn't seem to be a clear pattern.