MultiMix8 Firewire with MacBook Pro- HELP!

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chaimesparker

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I'm using a MacBook Pro(5,5) with Logic 9. I just bought a MultiMix8 Firewire. I naively bought a Firewire to USB converter connector, just to find out they only allow the firewire device to draw power from the USB port, not transfer data. :facepalm:

I'm wondering if there is any way I can use the MultiMix with this computer or if I'm at a total loss. Any help would be really appreciated.
 
I assume the Mac has no firewire port huh? Sorry, not a mac guy. Have you no way to add a firewire port to your Mac?

Again, sorry, not much help here, but I am curious why you purchased a firewire mixer, when you didn't have a firewire port. I sure hope someone didn't tell you that FW to USB thing would work. :(

A former member here, was trying to sell that point, and his gear. He was quickly flogged....
 
jimmys69 said:
I kinda thought it did, but not being a Mac guy, I wasn't going to say that..
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Lol, fair play man. As a mac guy, i'd be very, very, very, ultra surpirsed if any macbook pro from the last 10 years didn't have a firewire port! On the older Macbook whites and then unibodies they did drop the firewire port, but half the point of the "pros" was to keep the firewire.
 
chaimesparker said:
I naively bought a Firewire to USB converter connector, just to find out they only allow the firewire device to draw power from the USB port, not transfer data.
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Glad you got it sorted out.

For future reference, those firewire-to-usb converters are only for cameras and hard drives. They do not work on any audio interfaces.
 
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