Hello from Berlin!
Have major problems, too, with both Ensemble and Fireface 800 under Leopard 10.5.2. on a brandnew aluminium iMac 2,8 GHz/4 GB RAM - kernel panics, ugly sounds, drop outs, digital terror, incompatibilities with all kind of software instruments and audio hardware connected to Firewire 400 EXCEPT for Apogee's DUET, which works fine with Firewire 400 connector.
RME Fireface Support says Apple uses different Firewire chipsets for new computers and they are obviousely incompatible with most of major audio hardware.
Anyone ever heard about that before?
A workaround for the Fireface 800 troubles on my iMac is connecting it via the Firewire 800 port instead of the 400. Now it seems to work better.
Couldnt check out the same with Ensemble since it doesn't have FW 800 connectors...
I don't wanna say it sucks, thou it does.
Incompatible FireWire chip sets used by apple: "Apple for the first time uses a "PCIe to FW" controller in the new iMacs, made by a company named Agere. Obviously this one needs some driver optimizations to operate as good as the formerly used PCI TI chips"
Strange enough, lots of forum users blame Apple to force them into Apogee products by making other stuff not work flawlessly anymore... All right, I tried Apogee's Ensemble and still failed.
Any clue, folks?
