Hi,

im on Monterey 12.3.1 and have a UFX at the studio and UFX II at home. RME USB 4.06 driver was working fine at home, but I cant get it to work with my UFX.

What to do ?

Hello, I installed 4.06 driver (clicked allow in settings and rebooted my mac), and I see that device is recognised in the Fireface USB Settings app. However my mac and total mix do not see it, as well as other apps. I'm on Ventura 13.0.1 (For the reference I tried to install previous version of the driver couple weeks ago when I was on Monterrey - it was the same thing)

Any thoughts? I'm using Fireface UCX

Is there any indication on when the DriverKit driver will come out of beta, and become official? There's got to be some Apple deadline, right? Just this week when I updated to Ventura 13.1, macOS warned me that the current RME driver will not be supported in future versions - without being any more specific.

When I turn on my UFX I see it is on version 1.63

Do I need a driver to update my to a higher number before i go to 361 ?

And is that even possible ?

ok I was being a dumb ass    The 1.63 was the nr that came up on my UFX when I turned it on. It was on 360 but would not Flash on the M1.

I found a old Macbook pro 2017 BigSur 11.6 and ran the Flash on that to my UFX and now it its working on the new computer

And indeed, after upgrading to 11.7.2 today, the driver wasn't loaded and the UFX wasn't recognized. I reinstalled 3.27, rebooted, and it is working again. Bit disappointed in this. Please let me know if I can help in any way, send log files, whatever.

I see no newer 4.x version has been posted recently so I declined to try that again because of the quoted problems.

Ben

Can you listen music with the Babyface ?
Files from the Finder, MP3s etc  Youtube ?

Hi, I just bought a Fireface UCX, and I am facing glitches using it with my MacBook pro m1 running Monterey 12.0.1.

I have tried the driver 327 and the latest 4.06 beta and both creates the same kind of clicks and momentary stops the music, using Ableton  with a basic project with less than 10 tracks.
I have already uploaded the new firmware.

On the console I found this message.

error    22:58:47.419663+0000    CAReportingService    flushMessagesWithCompletion: flush failed with error '<private>'

/System/Library/Frameworks/AudioToolbox.framework/XPCServices/CAReportingService.xpc/Contents/MacOS/CAReportingService(/System/Library/
PrivateFrameworks/RTCReporting.framework/Versions/A/RTCReporting)

What can I do to solve this?

Thanks

What does the activity monitor tell you? Especially regarding the "memory pressure" these dropouts reflect on my system pretty clear with some kind of memory "occupation".

Don't expect much in solving the issue – at least my posts did not find an open ear from RME side.

Dumb question but did you connect your Fireface directly to your MacBook or are you using an USB hub?
This could cause severe issues at least if caused dropouts and breaks / stops with logic pro.

Are there lots of plugins active in Ableton when working with Zoom ?
Can you bypass all plugins for testing ?

After all the mysterious issues which you already had on TB I am not astonished to read about further issues when using USB 3 and USB 2. Still:

- USB 2 (of course) works with driver 4.06. The first time the unit is connected via USB 2 cable the same Allow Device confirmation dialog will pop up as it does for USB 3. Maybe you missed that one.

- Or the Interface Mode is not set to Auto but USB 3.

- Or the UFX+ is on firmware version 53 which had a (documented) USB 2 detection bug. That was already fixed in version 54 in June 2021.

I am having problems with the beta driver 4.06:

My UCX is sometimes not recognised by Total Mix, currently only my Digiface USB is recognised.
- Both interfaces are showing up in the driver window (Fireface USB Settings)
- I can select the UCX as a system audio device and it is playing fine
- The UCX is not in CC mode
- After a reboot everything works normal again
- the problems appears regularly the last days, it also affected both interfaces once

MacBook Pro 13-inch, M1, 2020
macOS 13.1

Any more info you need from my side before I roll back to 3.28?

I tried to roll back the drivers, installing 3.28, but now Total Mix is crashing once I plug the UCX.
It is working fine on an older machine. What should I do?

It was a software issue. It's working fine now after I removed everything I found in the library, including the last.FirefaceUCX.xml. Will keep testing the beta now and see if the previous issue (that it was only sometimes not recognised after some time using it) also disappeared.

Counter rant: The MX machines has been supported since almost day 1! The new driver is about the upcoming (who knows when) situation when Apple is disbanding the kernal driver support. RME has nothing to do with this!

the beta is running fine for me now. probably more stable than most non beta drivers from other brands

I stepped in against my better instincts and installed this beta on my Mac Studio. I really hate issues and instability, but I am very grateful to RME for having supporting with drivers even your old PCI-cards for a long time. So I decided to help out with testing. So far no issues detected using standard apps and Cubase on my Fireface 802. BTW, It would be really cool if you could update Totalmix with a multiband EQ on the outputs so we can do speaker calibration in the future.

I'm back to having this issue as well, even with 0 plugins, and no matter what cable or USB port I use. Just random dropouts both playback and recording. Happens regardless of sample rate or buffer size. Just did a test at 48k/2048 and still got a dropout during recording. Also on 13.1, but with UCX II.

Are you guys using aggregate devices by any chance?

After a few days of testing without issues yesterday I began to experience problem with dropout in sound playback. I got it today as well. It seems like these short bursts of milliseconds without sound occur more when i have Safari open and read text from webpages while listen to sound from Spotify or Apple Music.

See manual, lists of files to remove is in there.

Hi MC,

In der Anleitung steht unter 2. Installation -->
Hinweis: Ein zuvor installierter Kernel-Erweiterungstreiber, wie 3.27, muss nicht deinstalliert werden, er wird automatisch überschrieben. Danach ist es möglich die Sicherheitseinstellungen des Systems wieder auf Default zu setze, falls nicht weitere Kernel-Extension-Treiber nach wie vor eine reduzierte Sicherheit erfordern.

Ich habe ja den neuen schon installiert und wenn der alte überschrieben wurde, sollte die Meldung
eigentlich nicht mehr auftauchen?   

sorry, stehe wohl auf dem Schlauch was ich wo von Hand löschen muss  ;-/.

I looked at this part of the 4.06 readme.

"
Note: A previously installed kernel extension driver, like 3.27, does not need to be uninstalled. It will be overwritten automatically. After that you could set the system security back to normal, unless any other existing kernel extensions still need reduced security."

I read that as there are no need to remove anything manually if the installation goes through. Where is that part with files to remove?

Looking att settings in Fireface I have Firmware: v19 Driver: v4.06 beta now. Where can I see if there is something old left on this Mac?

What is the full process to remove all and install drivers from scratch if that may solve the pop and stop play back issue?

I have tried different usb port and is seems about the same... goes many hours without any issues and the suddenly there is a pop or stop or two...

Thank you MC.

I read that as there is nothing more to do about this? This playback issue something that Apple have to fix? But I did not notice it with my previous installed version (4.02 i think) so I thought this was a 4.06 problem, but it does not happen often so perhaps i was just lucky when I was using the old version?