Hackintosh for Logic Pro / FireWire Audio Interface?

[Leevi]

For sure! Actually I haven't heard many cases where those two wouldn't work.

I use external 400- FireWire card(my motherboard didn't have an internal) and Steinberg MR816X.

[FrankieP]

Just waiting for the power supply to come in the mail and I will start the assembly of my Hackintosh today. I bought a SIIG 1394 3-port PCI Card (Model NN-440012-S8). Supposedly it should work fine with my MOTU828MKIII. I'll report back in a couple of days.

[mat1]

Mine works perfectly nut make sure you get a recommended firewire card, onboard may give you trouble as will skimping

[gussyg2007]

been running my FW400 apogee ensemble for 2 years off a western digital pci-e fw/800/400/usb card no issues what so ever

[JohnnyFoster]

Thanks, everyone, for the great replies - very encouraging! On the tonymac hackintosh site, I've read lots of complaints of not having audio capability after completing their builds.

Good to learn that with a recommended PCI FireWire card, that audio works well.

Thanks again,
JT.

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[gussyg2007]

I've read lots of complaints of not having audio capability

usually to do with Mobo onboard sound ... (drops after updates) but if your using FW audio it's not really an issue..

[valis]

And if you stick to a 100% known board from one of the sites out there that gives you kexts, DSDT's and everything you need you shouldn't have a problem with working audio. You just have to be VERY specific when you purchase so you don't wind up with a slightly different motherboard model that has a slightly different audio implementation (which requires you knowing how to do a pinconfig to patch the changes).

[Autocrat]

I've found that you need a dedicated firewire card to keep things running smoothly. The SYBA SD-PEX3009 card in my Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3, i7, 10.7.4 setup with an Apollo and UAD2 Quad, running DP7.4, worked great!

JRRshop.com : SYBA SD-PEX30009 PCIe Firewire Adapter with TI Chipset [sdpex30009] - $29.99USD

[JohnnyFoster]

Great info and replies here, everyone!

Thanks again for contributing to this thread - really appreciate your help and knowledge...

- JT.

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[FrankieP]

Originally Posted by Autocrat

I've found that you need a dedicated firewire card to keep things running smoothly. The SYBA SD-PEX3009 card in my Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3, i7, 10.7.4 setup with an Apollo and UAD2 Quad, running DP7.4, worked great!

JRRshop.com : SYBA SD-PEX30009 PCIe Firewire Adapter with TI Chipset [sdpex30009] - $29.99USD

Forgive me for the noob question. I'm in the process of assembling my Hackintosh. I have the same motherboard. Did you have to install anything special (DSDT/Kext) to for your SYBA card or UAD to work?

[gussyg2007]

nope !

[Autocrat]

Originally Posted by FrankieP

Forgive me for the noob question. I'm in the process of assembling my Hackintosh. I have the same motherboard. Did you have to install anything special (DSDT/Kext) to for your SYBA card or UAD to work?

No, they worked out of the box. I also have the TPLink (TL-WDN4800) that the system sees as an Airport Extreme setup!

[valis]

If you check OWC's site their cards should work too, though if you're using it with an audio interface you'll want to check the chipset the card uses before buying. Both of the firewire cards I've purchased from OWC worked out of the box on Windows & OSX both, so should also be good to go for a hack.

[Tim Davis]

Word of warning that I have a Firewire 800, and get on average 4 crashes (kernal panics) everytime I play audio, before things start to run stable.

If there's any hackintosh pro users here, and wanna earn a beer, help me out! The thread explaining my issues is here: I'll buy you a beer: Firewire Audio Interface Unstable as HELL. - Sound - InsanelyMac Forum

[valis]

denmarkdavis gave you one of two potential answers in that thread you linked, your DSDT is placing another device that you have installed on the same resources (probably not really the same IRQ as that's a legacy issue) to the point where things are not running reliabily. If you're using a premade DSDT (which I'm guessing you are) then you have something installed in a PCI/PCIe slot that is unique to your config (not part of the onboard devices) and you need to extract the APCI tables under linux or windows to resolve this (and apply whatever fixes are already applied to your existing DSDT). Good luck on that one, buying a new firewire card is probably easier...

The other potential answer is more than likely the issue here: the VIA VT6308 that your motherboard uses. Even if resource conflicts are resolved in your DSDT this isn't an ideal chip for use with audio cards in general let alone with a Fireface. Checking the RME forums I see some people using it under WIn7 with no issues, while others have frequent dropouts and/or the interface 'disappearing' for audio output randomly. Again I suggest what's been suggested in this thread, get a 3rd party interface.

Once you get a new card disable your existing onboard firewire in the bios, and just don't use it.

[Tim Davis]

Hey! Thanks for the help!

Originally Posted by valis

denmarkdavis gave you one of two potential answers in that thread you linked

, denmarkdavis = me.

Originally Posted by valis

Good luck on that one, buying a new firewire card is probably easier...

I wish I knew enough to understand how to act on your advice.. Do you think buying a new firewire card would fix things? Think that's what I'm gonna try next..

[xgman]

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[valis]

Originally Posted by Tim Davis

I wish I knew enough to understand how to act on your advice.. Do you think buying a new firewire card would fix things? Think that's what I'm gonna try next..

If it doesn't then the issue isn't the firewire chipset & drivers under OSX, but I suspect it is. Macs used to use TI chipsets and now use Agere, and unlike Windows you need to manually 'trick' OSX into supporting other compatible devices. The two methods for this are to add the device id to the plist inside of a kext, and to edit the DSDT. In both cases the chipset STILL needs to be 100% compatible or you WILL get crashes, even a 'fixed' DSDT won't solve that particular issue.

And fwiw I don't run hacks here, but am familiar enough with the technology to have a moderate grasp on what I'm talking about. I am not probably capable of editing your DSDT for you (I don't own any machine like that) but I *do* own OWC firewire cards and can recommend them, though the specific model will depend on what slots you have free and which firewire chipset you choose to use.