Hi,

Fireface 800 (Driver 3.41 / Firmware 2.77) here running on M1 iMac with Sonoma 14.1 without any problems. There is never a guarantee of course.

Hi,

Thank you very much for your feedback. I have done the update and everything is working fine :-)

Ciao!

Hi Audio Student,
the support for Fireware has not yet ended. It may end with one of the next Sonoma updates, but now everything is working perfectly.

Ciao,
Marco

I have MBP M3 on Sonoma 14.1 and firewire settings doesn't open and my Fireface 800 is not recognized

Im not sure if anyone else has this problem but if its related to the loss of fw support I doubt apple will change course.

https://forum.rme-audio.de/viewtopic.ph … 05#p210105

Here the Fireface settings opens only when the interface is connected and recognized.
Your adapters seems to be broken...

They are Apple adapters and they're not broken because the interface works on my 2018 Mac mini

Sonoma 14.3.1 and still running.

Sonoma 14.4.1 doesn't recognize the Fireface 800 (latest Firmware/Version) anymore, TotalMix and Settings doesn't start either. Hardware connected with a original apple firewire => thunderbold adapter.

Its a shame as the hardware is still very reliable.

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Correction:

I tried this on first start after the macos system update. That fails, s. above.
After another restart the FF 800 were recognized by the system and functions normally. Without reinstalling anything.

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@waedi, thx for dig in. See my edited post. Puh, that puts a smile on my face ;-)

Somebody knows if the FF800 works with Sonoma 14.5?

Thx

Good to know, thanks! Sonoma was already on 14.4.1 when I upgraded from Mojave. I'm on a MacMini M2 pro now.
But ever since my FF800 behaves different: I always preferred my Mac to be clock master. This didn't work anymore with the Sonoma update. Samplerate was audibly drifting and didn't stabilize after changing from eg 44.1 kHz (system audio) to a Logic session with 48 kHz or back.
Now I made the FF clock master- have to adjust the sr each time manually in the FF-settings, when the project samplerate changes.
Mix wise it seems to work yet. But I'm a little afraid of the next recording session when a temporary drift of the sr affects the recording... Anyone with a similar experience?

@Macke, I assume you combined your Mac and the FF800 via an aggregated Device in AMS? If yes, after creating the new aggregated device, did you select the Mac first - then the FF800 and made sure, the drift correction is checked for FF800?
You can verify this by checking in AMS that the first 2 Output Channels are assigned to your Mac (the blue channels in my pic). Channel 3 is the 1st Out of FF800, and so on... and of course, in Logic, the Aggregated Device has to be set as Audio Interface.

Just tried to reproduce your problem with my 802. My Mac Speakers are set as Clock Source. They can only handle Sample Rates from 44,1 up to 96 kHz:

https://i.ibb.co/2PJLFM9/ams.png

Then, in Logic, it looks like this:

https://i.ibb.co/Fb0HfS2/logic.png

I can switch without any problems between 44,1 and 96 kHz. The 802 slightly follows, without touching anything in FF-Settings. No matter if i do this in Logic, or any other App. Both devices are pefectlty in sync. But i did not check the Latency/Buffersize etc. for now...

As you see, the 176,4 and 192 kHz are marked. Because, though the FF802 can handle these rates, the Mac can not. Even if the rates are selectable.

If i choose 176kHz - the FF802 switches, and of course, here the Sample Rate from the master has to be upscaled. Not good. I think that is what oli77sch means. It has more to do with physical laws (shannon-nyquist theorem), than with core audio itself. Without diving to deep here: The audio signal has to be altered by adding "non existent" information.

See 2.1) Setup 1  - in my post: https://forum.rme-audio.de/viewtopic.ph … 88#p218588

The opposite is downscaling. Thats why you have no sync problems if you choose your FF800 as Master.
But i do not understand why you always have to set the Rate via FF-Setting. Did you set the FF800 as first device and as master and then the Mac with drift enabled (the Mac Channels should be the opposite of my first pic. 31/32 in my case and i think 29/30 for FF800).

Boys, i just wanted to share what i learned - but long time ago. So, not really sure, if i am 100% right.
Please correct me if i am wrong or misunderstood sth. Always happy to learn here from others. Thanks.

Thank you!

Also here with Fireface 400 (same driver).

fwiw: switched again sometimes forth and back between my old (Intel/ Mojave) and new machine and equalized the settings of the driver. No more glitches yet with my Sonoma/ M2 machine. Can't actually tell what made the difference finally... but seems stable now. Thanks @maggie33 and @oli77sch again for your ideas!