Thanks for the quick reply, it not nececcarily being a driver issue I don't find that interesting.

What does concern me is when I can expect my 3000 euros costing hardware to normally function, where the good old Mbox 2 does perform as it should.

When do you expect these fixes?

Thanks, greets Rowan.

Alright, so when do you expect these fixes?

Thank you, greets Rowan.

I have the exact same problem!
Had an old Mac G5 (no intel) with a digi002 system, for 16 input recordings... the digi002 broke down, and the mac computer was so out dated.. i though, lets dump the old stuff and invest in some new equipment

so got myself a brand new mac computer (arrived yesterday) and already had a fireface 800 witch i couldn't use with the old mac (the old G5 could only support up to ProTools 6,4 wich requiers a digidesign interface HeadScratch)
But with the new system i could use Logic 9.. so i bought Logic 9 aswel

being happy with my new purchases i started installing today, i was so excited.. had some brand new toys to play with!! But I soon got kicked in the (fire)face... with downloading the Fireface800 drivers

I mean, come ON!!! Lion released in JULY, it's almost October now.... on top of that, Apple even announced the upcoming new OSX a few months before the release (call them + ask beta + make software = win = happy customers)

You make great audio equipment RME.. but this very unprofessional (and RME isn't the only one... Avid and Presonus, same story)

Don't you guys get a beta test of osx or something in advance to test your new drivers? So you can release your drivers/fixes/patches/firmware/whatever at the same time as apple releases their new OSX?

A lot of your customers are Apple users, all of your customers spend good money on your equipment (and it's worth every dime, dont get me wrong!) but is it to much to ask to keep your equipment updated? I think not...

Now if I wasn't forced to buy a new computer, I would've stayed with Snow Leopard OSX... but brand new machines come out of the box with Lion.
Guess I'll just connect my webcam microphone to the back of the computer now.. see if the Jazz Bigband that is coming this saturday like's the sound of that! (or i might just reschedule them and not make any money till your HotFix comes out)

Can't you hear ? It will be ready when it's ready ! :-) And it's Apple's fault, by the way…
Thanks again for the friendly tone.

I 'm using the current drivers. It works except when it doesn't. I mean sometimes during a DP7 session, for instance, I get cuts in the sound, randomly. Just quitting DP7 generally solves the problem.
In terms of the Fireface 800 being recognized by the mac (Imac 27 2010), the erratic behaviour I once had with 10.7, seems to have disappeared with 10.7.1.
My 2 cents.

Hello RME team!

I really love your products and I've looking around for a driver so that I can use my Fireface 800 with my Mac Book with Lion.

Can you please give me a date, when a new driver will come for the product that is fully compatible with Lion?

That would really make my day, I have lion sitting on my Snow Leopard Desktop now for 4 months and have not installed it yet, since the Fireface is the last piece of equipment where I read about problems with the existing driver - all the other stuff I use has been updated already.

Thanx a lot for a clear statement on this.

Better you tell me you won't update the driver or it's only going to be out at Christmas or whatever, but saying we cannot tell anything about this question doesn't really help.

Pete

+1 for the news ! That's RME's style : wait and stop asking. Can't get used to it. Maybe we should stop showing our weakness, by telling them all the time we like their products :-)

1. I had NO problem at all, with exactly the same configuration and cables before Lion. Problems (audio distorsion) appeared right after installing it.

2. Are you trying to tell us that because your Mac Mini works "without obvious problems" with the current drivers and Lion, you're not working on an updated driver ?? This is really important for us customers to really understand your plans on that matter. So far your communication is pretty unclear.

3. I don't want to change hardware - again I'm happy with my Fireface - but I hate to feel insecure. I'm also planning the purchase of a new MacBook, so I need to walk on solid ground.

Thanks for reassuring your Mac customers.

MOTU did update DP 7 to make it compatible with Lion. So now it would be their fault ? Come on.

Are you telling us that YOU at RME are waiting for Apple to correct their Core Audio to work with your drivers ? Is it a joke ? All this is really scary. I don't get it, guys. You would be the only company to say : we won't change our drivers until Apple goes back to the former system ? Do you mean Snow Leopard ?? Is that what I should understand ? I really hope I'm wrong. Please : clarification is urgently needed, before I switch to another brand.

All those "may" and "might" sound like you're not working on any update.

I'll try the killaudio trick anyway and report.

Hi,

I have managed to solve the issue by installing latest firmware drivers for the FF800. I recommend anyone experiencing the same issue to try this.

Greets Rowan.

Hello Thound,
Now do FF800 and Lion works together for you? Are your problems solved?

No Problems concerning Dropouts, but unfortunately since LION update i have heavy performance problems under cubase.
Projects with lots of tracks and plugins which were running smooth with 512samples under SnowLeopard now need  2048 samples buffer size and are still not running completely smooth.
Running them with 512 makes every thing slow ( mouse clicks, adjusting volumes, .....) and i mean really slow ( 2 sec. or more)
No Problems with smaller projects.

Any Solution for this?

MacPro / Lion 10.7.1 / FF800 (latest firmware&driver)

thanks,
Chris

this would mean to re-Install all applications & stuff?
pfffhhhhhhhh....

Fireface 800 driver 2.97 is working fine with Mac OS X 10.7.2 (just released).