We are currently talking with Intel about integrating Thunderbolt technology into our hardware and once it is available, Thunderbolt will be included in all new products as well as an upgrade for all existing interfaces.Īll product names and trademarks are property of their respective owners.
If the audio hardware in your Mac doesn't support high sample rate audio, you can use a third-party digital audio interface. Select a sample rate, such as 176400.0 Hz or 192000.0 Hz, from the Format pop-up menu. If necessary, choose Use this device for sound output from the Action pop-up menu. The introduction of Thunderbolt opens up some interesting possibilities. That being said, we do not presently have a publicly available development timeline for the next generation of Metric Halo products. Select your audio device from the list on the left side of the Audio Devices window. While it is assumed that using multiple Thunderbolt adapters on the Retina MacBook Pro is possible, we have not tested this configuration and can not certify its performance at this time. This configuration will support up to six interfaces, or provide one bus for interfaces and another for hard drives. The Thunderbolt Display and either the Thunderbolt to Firewire adapter or Sonnet Echo/FW800 card can be used simultaneously to create two separate FireWire busses. The performance is the same as a native FireWire port:
We have these configurations in-house and have qualified them for compatibility. The third is to take advantage of Sonnet Technology's Thunderbolt to Expresscard adapter: 07463.002.057 13.3 Apple MacBook Pro 2.7Ghz Core i5 Processor Memory: - 8GB RAM Storage:- 121GB Solid State Drive Installed with OSX Mojave 10.
The second option is Apple's Thunderbolt to Firewire adapter: So it really seem an issue of Ableton Live with Firewire on this Macbook model/OSX ver.There are currently three ways to use Metric Halo interfaces with Thunderbolt- the first is to connect your Thunderbolt-enabled computer to the 27" Apple Thunderbolt Display: Ableton Live (8.3 and 9.0.4) on an old 2008 Macbook, CPU around 70%, tracking a single channel with FW WORKS OK. Ableton Live (8.3 and 9.0.4) CPU around 30%, tracking a single channel with Builtin interface:WORKS ok. Logic 9.1.7 CPU around 80% tarcking a single channel with FW WORKS OK. Ableton Live (8.3 and 9.0.4) CPU around 30%, tracking a single channel with FW: DIGITAL DROPS. Also tried several buffer sizes (up to 512) without success. I tried to track with the built-in audio input in the same conditions and works ok. For dropout i mean occasional samples at 0 value. In Ableton Live (tested 9.0.4 and 8.3 with same results), even with CPU at around 20-30% i get digital dropouts that get more frequent as the CPU load increases. IK Multimedia iRig Keys I/O 49 MIDI Controller and Audio Interface - Previous Gallery Image IK Multimedia iRig Keys I/O 49 MIDI Controller and Audio Interface - Next Gallery Image. When I turn it much lower it doesn't help much, just sustain gets shorter. MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2012 - 2015) MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, Early 2015 2017) iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, 2019). Interface gain is set just below clipping with hard palm muted strokes.
I stress tested it with a huge amount of plugin loaded (70-80% CPU load) and tracked without issues. Steinberg UR22 audio interface - Macbook PRO 2013 Retina running MacOS Mohave with up to date drivers - Guitar Rig 5 Guitar gain is set at 8/10. This configuration works flawlessy in Logic 9. Next i run a FW800->FW400 adapter and then a FW400 cable to the Audio interface.
I have a FW audio interface (Edirol FA-101), and as you know, the Macbook Retina doesn't come with any FW port, so i got a Thunderbolt-FW800 adapter. I'm having issues when tracking with my new configuration in Ableton Live.