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The mixer itself is somewhere between the larger format Onyx series analog desks (which could be retrofitted with a FireWire card for audio) and the more familiar VLZ-3 smaller format desks.
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So we are looking at buying some new interfaces.Mackie's latest range of analog mixers come with integrated FireWire audio but caused quite a stir when first announced - primarily because of the news that their drivers had bypassed the ProTools hardware copy proctection which up to then had only allowed signed, authorized M-Audio hardware to run the M-Powered version of Pro Tools.īut thats not the whole story by any means. Given what's currently on the market for MIDI interfaces I don't expect Apple to issue updates that can be interpreted to mean they support legacy/discontinued hardware. My experience with Apple is this need not hinge upon the technical issues, i.e., engineering reports it can be done but support and marketing veto it.
I would like the Unitor mkII we have to work natively on M1 machines as well, but we saw this in the transition from PPC to Intel. MOTU currently advertises MIDI interfaces with MTS maybe they're using current core MIDI whereas the Unitor drivers may not. I think MTS (MIDI timestamp) was developed at MOTU, adopted in MacOS and ultimately put into the core MIDI framework. Newer interfaces support external instruments such that multi-player mode in Logic works along with additional options for MIDI routing not in the Unitors iConnect and others have rack mounted devices.
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The last update to the Unitor drivers looks like 2010 for MacOS 10.5 which is not exactly recent by release standards. Landing on a random page from this thread may not reflect those units date back to the time of Emagic support for MacOS 9 and Windows 95.
No one device usually has everything on (or off) the wish list, e.g., someone may not need the video/sync features in the Unitor but paid for them anyway. Suggesting alternative interfaces is not to say current interfaces are exact replacements for the old Unitor/AMT interfaces. the ESI unit above is non-rackmounted and, having class-compliant drivers, might not support things like MIDI timestamping etc to give good MIDI performance. very few multiport MIDI interfaces on the market now. Apple *have* updated the drivers previously though, so they definitely were supporting them for some time. As it's basically Unitor/AMT owners here on this thread, we're well aware of what these devices are. The MOTU options seem the closest to the Unitor in design ( ), but they only just got their drivers updated for Apple Silicon June 8th, almost 8 months after the M1's release! I understand that some interfaces can't do that. I have been going back and forth with them for over a month trying to get some more specific technical information about handling sysex with older synths. The M8U and the MioXL have ports in front, which isn't the cleanest for a rack mounted setup.The Midiplus MIDI16x16 ( ) is midi class-compliant but is a non-standard rack size, and their customer support is abysmal. This is my situation - for those with legacy outboard synths and effects I haven't found many choices for rack mounted 8 port interfaces. There are actually very few multiport MIDI interfaces on the market now, due in part to the proliferation of USB and the general moving away from hardware into the box, so replacing 8 port interfaces with something that will continue to MIDI interface on modern systems isn't easy. My guess is Apple probably feel the same way about supporting these devices, and probably won't update the driver, which would be a shame, but it is what it is.
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No one expects gear to go on forever, but it is frustrating when perfectly good functional gear gets related for scrap when a slight rejig of the driver code when Apple change the OS significantly could keep tens of thousands of units in service and avoiding recycling. The ESI unit above is non-rackmounted and, having class-compliant drivers, might not support things like MIDI timestamping etc to give good MIDI performance.
There are actually very few multiport MIDI interfaces on the market now, due in part to the proliferation of USB and the general moving away from hardware into the box, so replacing 8 port interfaces with something that will continue to MIDI interface on modern systems isn't easy - most of these devices are old and unsupported now. The iConnectivity interfaces handle DIN/USB MIDI connections and can send them over your local network, If you need to connect older keyboards with 5 pin DIN MIDI jacks, a modern MIDI DIN hub can be had from the likes of ESI, e.g., That one automatically senses the if the DIN connection is an input or output and treats it accordingly.