thanks for the update. it resolved the problem which I reported with 4.01. Now everything works fine with my babyface pro on my macbook pro m1 (2021).

Trying to set up a Babyface on a new M1 Mac mini, so no prior driver installed.
Monterey 12.3.1 installed for the time being.

First stop is trying to update the firmware. FUT UI shows up, Babyface is listed with serial. USB firmware identified, current revision (225) properly listed and the new revision (226) being available.

Pushing update only makes the GUI blink, more specifically the interface drop down menu, the quit button and the update button blinks, and then no further action is taken. Status stays unmodified at "Not updated" and no indication on the progress bar at all.

Any combination of checking "Flash all" and having the USB row in the list selected or not does not alter the behaviour at all.

One thing I thought could get me further was toggling Rosetta mode, but I realised that's not an available option for "RME USB Series Flash Tool.app" (is it because it's not an universal app?).

Do I need to have the driver installed before being able to update the firmware?
Or do I need to do the FW upgrade on my old x86 Mac mini?

Edit: Scratch the question on the driver being needed before being able to update firmware:
Driver installation went good without the firmware update, allow button showed up and prompted nicely.
After restart, I tried again to do the firmware update, and still same behaviour.

The Fireface USB Settings shows up and identifies the Babyface properly, but TotalMix does not seem to like the Babyface and show any UI other than the preferences and select device dialog, which is empty. Of course, TotalMix is this way due to the Babyface still being on the wrong FW version.

For what it's worth. This is looking good so-far on my UC. ...and since I have a particular interest in aggregate devices, it does look like this new driver now enabled me to aggregate my UC on MacOS 12, with Cubase 12. A good sign! Hopefully HDSPe gets similar treatment, since I want to continue using my 3 linked Multifaces.

So - good step forward for my scenario I think.

Bumped the firmware on the old mac, and now things are popping along nicely on the M1.
As soon as I connected the USB cable/babyface Totalmix started as expected, and things were smooth from there.
So, going from scratch with a M1 Mac Mini on Monterey works great on at least one Babyface.

Please send all info zipped to support. Thanks.

Was happy to see support of additional older interfaces.

My system uses Madiface USB and Fireface UFX (via USB) for Adat expansion via ADI-648.

I did the firmware update for UFX to v361
Installed Beta 4.02
Allowed permissions in System Preferences/ Security & Privacy
Restarted.

USB Settings control panel sees both interfaces.
Audio MIDI Setup and System Preferences/ Sound does not see either interface.
Totalmix launches but can't see either interface.

Several restarts and complete cold reboots did not change anything.

My Mac is a 2012 5,1 Mac Pro running Big Sur via Open Core. Could this have something to do with it?

Looks like it's back to 3.27 for me for now.

I don't know if OpenCore can interfere with DriverKit. Might be. We will not test this kind of configuration, though. Sorry.

Hello there!

System: Mac Mini M1 8GB Big Sur 11.6.6

Fireface UCX updated firmware beforehand to the newest version with the old driver.

Installed the new Beta driver 4.02 and rebooted.

Fireface USB Settings is connected to the interface but it is not listed in audio devices nor can I select it in any app. TotalMix does not appear.

Another observation: the sample rate resets after reboot to 32000 Hz.

Any ideas?

Edit: I have to correct myself. Although the Fireface USB Settings window lists the device with serial number it does not show the current clock which means, it is not really connected?!

Edit: On the device itself the Host LED is not active like it is correctly connected to the computer.

Not 'but'. The Babyface Pro (200) is not the Babyface (226).

Hello,

As I just upgraded MacOS to 11.6.6, I found that my UFX was MIA (as usual in 11.x) after an upgrade. So I thought I'd try this beta. This is on an iMac 27-inch, Late 2014, 4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7, 32 GB 1600 MHz DDR3.

I reinstalled 3.27 (using the driver in the original post) to get the driver working again, then upgraded the firmware in the UFX to 361. Next I installed 4.02, allowed the driver in Prefs, but neither Settings or Totalmix auto-started after reboot. My /var/log/system.log was rapidly filling up with:

May 17 21:51:37 imacret com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (de.rme-audio.dkusb-0x100001307[1493]): Service exited due to SIGABRT
May 17 21:52:10 imacret com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (de.rme-audio.dkusb-0x100001398[1574]): Service exited due to SIGABRT
May 17 21:52:10 imacret com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (de.rme-audio.dkusb-0x1000013ab[1575]): Service exited due to SIGABRT
May 17 21:52:10 imacret com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (de.rme-audio.dkusb-0x1000013b9[1576]): Service exited due to SIGABRT
May 17 21:52:10 imacret com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (de.rme-audio.dkusb-0x1000013be[1577]): Service exited due to SIGABRT
May 17 21:52:10 imacret com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (de.rme-audio.dkusb-0x1000013c3[1578]): Service exited due to SIGABRT
May 17 21:52:11 imacret com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (de.rme-audio.dkusb-0x1000013c8[1579]): Service exited due to SIGABRT
...etc

I have sent the crash logs to support@.

I checked the two commands
systemextensionsctl list
ls /library/audio/plug-ins/hal
and they returned the expected result.

I tried installing 4.02 again, but to no avail.
Next I wanted to downgrade back to 3.27, but it still doesn't work. Also tried to install 3.27 a second time after manually removing the two apps in /Applications and the exts in /library/extensions and /library/audio/plug-ins/hal. No luck.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Ben

Hmm. Unfortunately that is also my experience. The device looks like connected (no HOST LED) but the computer does not recognize the soundcard. ATM I cannot use the Fireface UCX.

Matthias, thanks for looking into this. Your drivers have always been top-notch so I'm sure you can figure this out.

Please let me know if there is any more information about my system you need. And if there is anything I can test, I would be more than happy to help.

Ben

I don't know why you reinstalled a (now known) non-working driver (4.02). That said we seem to have found a workaround for Big Sur and will make this available shortly. I am optimistic that this driver will bring the UFX back to life.

I changed the opening post from 4.02 to 4.03:

- Hot Fix for Big Sur: The installer now contains two drivers, one for macOS 11, one for macOS 12 and higher. They will be automaticaly selected for installation. The previous driver version 4.02, created with current tools from Apple, was no longer compatible with Big Sur.

If all fixes were that easy

Hello!

Will the FF400/800 be included in the next versions?

Hi..
I tried the RME USB 4.0.3 beta driver to see if it would solve a problem I was having where my 16" MacBook Pro M1 Max was crashing when booting up after an overnight shutdown. This was not occurring on every boot just every few boots or so. This has been happening for months now. I'm running a BabyFace Pro interface. I finally took a look at the crash log I was sending to Apple and saw that RME's extension was at the top of the crash stack trace. It's been 5 days now, since I installed 4.0.3 and no crashing so I think that first, it was the old driver causing the crash and second, the new beta driver seems to have fixed the problem.

THANKS!!

One more minor thing I noticed. The 4.0.3 driver seems to have trouble hiding the RME Total Mix application window. I find that some times it is showing when the Mac finishes booting. Not a big deal I just close it but just thought you would like to know this. I also stopped getting the Apple messages about outdated software which I suspect is a key goal of this release.

Hope this helps with your beta testing:

DETAILS:
SYSTEM: Apple MacBook Pro M1 Max 16-in, 2021
MACOS: 12.4
INTERFACE: Babyface Pro
FIRMWARE: v200
DRIVER: v4.03

Well at first I thought that was true until I found there was no firmware 200 for the Babyface Pro. So I looked again at the requirements and it says:

Current USB firmware versions: UFX+ 54, UFX II 23/111, UFX 361, UCX II 39, UCX 49, 802 17/111, Babyface Pro 200, Babyface 226,  MADIface USB 25, Pro 73, XT 191, Digiface USB 18, Digiface Dante 45, Digiface AVB 244.

There is a different firmware version for the Babyface Pro vs the Babyface. 200 is correct. at least from this information in the Readme file.

There definitely is.

So this RAM-is-full window is my new daily special - here is a screenshot when it appears:

Although it looks like the computer is imploding in the next minutes I can in parallel open up Photoshop to edit the screenshot, wasting 1,5 GB additional memory. I am new to Mac, so bare with me, if this an easy problem which has nothing to do with the beta driver. But I have the computer for a year now and never saw that dialog although working with the Adobe suite working all the time which is no comparison to the load right now.

BTW when this RAM fiasko starts the driver is not available to the system anymore. The Fireface looses connection to the computer, although the host LED on the device is not indicating that.

Thank you for the response but I have to insist: This computer have seen heavier workloads then Firefox before. Like Firefox, Opera, Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign in parallel - without any sign of this window. Also the activity monitor does not make sense to me. This does not look like a system on it's knees. Also - it does not matter how many programs I quit - the window reappears in minutes after the RAM is freed. The whole behaviour "feels" strange in an way that it does not make much sense. I hope you understand what I mean. For example: I cannot trigger this by opening up an ample amount of high RAM apps. It's like there is an invisible app consuming RAM and the system reacts to this. The graphics use the same 8GB on M1 - maybe TotalMix have a leakage there (just a silly idea)?

MIDI over MADI or DIN?

Confirmed, thanks for reporting. MIDI is not functional for USB3 devices as the ARM version is simply missing. Fix upcoming.

Just a little question:

There is no information about Fireface 800.
Is this series complete out of support for further drivers?

If this so, it will be a great information for me (and the other FF800/400 users).

Thanks a lot for your statement