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Topic: Fireface 400 not storing state

Hi,

So Firewire is dying, I know, but who doesn't love getting the absolute most out of your old devices.

The FF400 could still be a great ADAT converter, it should work!
However... I've tried absolutely everything and it doesn't seem to store the workspace from TotalMixFX. I'll have it plugged in via firewire, it works fine, it does everything I want it to do. I unplug firewire and it still does its thing.

I power cycle it without it being plugged in to Firewire, and it doesn't keep my routing. It only does analog1 - ADAT 1 and analog 2 - ADAT 2.
I thought that might be a clocking issue, so I gave it a clock from my FF800 with ADAT and saved its settings under AutoSync and ADAT as preferred input. It shows a light on the front that it's getting sync I believe from ADAT1. It still does the same though. 

I've also tried flashing a state from an old mac with a built in firewire port thinking my adapter chain could be the problem.. No success.

My hypothesis is that it might be a hardware thing, that it's not able to save the state correctly and it defaults to some state that was saved pre-problems. My second hypothesis is that it may be a software thing to do with more modern TotalMix FX not saving into the older devices.

Anyone have any tips? References?

thank you
David

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Re: Fireface 400 not storing state

Did you store your clock settings from the Settings dialog into the unit as well? 2 channels ADAT sounds like 192 kHz...but yes, the internal flash might be defective as well.

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Matthias Carstens
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