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Yes, if you mean the MOTU Audio Setup application. Which firewire MOTU interface do you have. 828MKII? or a newer one?

Pappy725

Motu 828 mk2 Firewire with 800/400 cable and Thunderbolt adapter


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It takes a few minutes for mine to show up in the Audio Setup app, and I occasionally have to restart to get both of my units to show up. Have you tried a different cable? Just to rule out a bad cable. It is frustrating when it doesn’t work.

Thanks puppy

I suspect a problem with the cable, I’m now make a clean install with Mavericks and not work

See please if you can this video about my
828 mk2 when if is connect to the mac

https://youtu.be/vrJfUdW3e5k


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Wow! The way the lights are flashing on your 828 does not look right. Of course, the lights don't flash on mine at all anymore until it has finished connecting to my Mac and then it just has the clock light at 44.1. I noticed you're still on Yosemite. Can you upgrade to the latest OS? 10.13.2? That may be the problem, that the Audio Setup driver doesn't work with that version of Mac OS. What version of the Audio Setup are you using? Mine is at 1.6 73220.

And now that I'm trying to start it up, the 828 has all of the clock times lit up and a dot and an M(?) beside it on the MIDI out, Mic 2 and Main out L. Not sure what's going on with my rig either. Anyway, I would upgrade to the latest OS and Audio driver and try that. Good luck!

After that scare, I restarted and everything came up normal. Still not sure what that combination of lights was trying to tell me.

guyusmaximus wrote:Glad to see you got it sorted, I have the same issue on a Mac Pro late 2013 3.5G 6 core. High Sierra 10.13.1

Installed latest driver (1.67) first time install - done the security thing as suggested. MOTU Audio setup app installs fine but the Mac just won't see the device (MOTU 828 mkII). Am using a thunderbolt port with a firewire converter (as no firewire on mac bucket). Have checked that the port works, it does.

System report shows firewire device tree - Vendor0x1F2 Device 0x101800. not sure what that means apart from it sees something but doesn't recognise it.

Am close to giving up here.

Any last suggestions?

I’m interesting if you was resolve the problem because you have the same machine as me, tomorrow will prob in other mac from a friend but with a 400/400 cable and Firewire port

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The 828 mkll works with a 2012 Mini that has FW800 and TB1 ports.
Connection can be with a FW400 to FW800 cable to the FW800 port or said cable with a FW800 to TB 1 adapter to the TB1 port.

Initially, after installing driver v 1.6 73220, the unit was simply not seen. After restarting the Mac and quitting/restarting the Audio MIDI Setup utility several times, the unit was finally online.

Caution: The v1.6.7 driver was installed on my 2017 MBP which does not have a FW port, only USB-C/TB3. After the installation-required restart, the startup screen - the black page with the white apple and progress bar - froze just before the progress bar reached the far right end point. An hour or so later, it was clear that something was seriously wrong. Even Apple phone support was stumped. Fortunately, reinstalling macOS from macOS Recovery restored functionality.

Being a die-hard, I then connected the unit via FW-TB1 adapter to a TB1 to TB3 adapter to the MBP. macOS System Information indicated no TB devices were connected.