Can't Install Firestudio Project on Mac

[jkorchok]

I have a 350MHz G4 tower with 2 gigs of memory, running OS X 10.4.11 and am unable to install a Firestudio Project. I followed the instructions, installed the drivers and Firecontrol program, restarted, plugged the Firewire cable into the Firestudio and turned it on.
The Firestudio pilot light blinks red and blue. When I start Firecontrol, I only get a menu that says Presonus Firecontrol and nothing else. The Firecontrol icon in the dock acquires a red exclamation point.
I have tried closing all programs, reinstalling from the CD, downloading newer drivers and reinstalling, deleting the existing Firecontrol program and drivers and reinstalling, swapping out the firewire cable, nothing works.
I realize the 350 MHz speed is slower than recommended, but that shouldn't stop it from installing. I have lots of memory and bags of disk space.
Thanks for any comments, please read the above carefully before replying. I'm a computer professional and pretty thorough about installation procedure.

[matt m]

hi jk. the dock has a the exclamation point when there is no workstation fired up.

try things in this order:
all power off.
turn on the firestudio and wait til it fully boots and starts blinking.
next turn on your mac. soon the firestudio should eventually sync and stop blinking.
next fire up your workstation [DAW] cubase, garage band...whatever.
next fire up firestudio.

firestudio basically works as a means to get audio into your computer, and then works as a monitor system to kill latency. I needed to set my buffer size at the biggest setting in order to get it to work with my macbook, which is about twice as fast as your computer. You may encounter problems with the speed.

were you able to load cubase LE 4

good luck

mm

[samuel1]

350MHz... my that is an old chipset you have there. It must put along with 10.4.11 - this might be a simpler problem but consider that an old chipset like that just might not work. I though you could not even install tiger with clock speed numbers that low?

[jkorchok]

Sorry, you're wrong. After many hours I discovered minimum requirements that Presonus preferrs not to mention or has not bothered to check:
1. You cannot boot a Mac from a Firewire drive and use a Firestudio Project. The Firestudio Project will not sync. Booting from an internal drive solved the sync problem, but slowed the computer.
2. If you have installed a third-party Firewire 800 card, you must remove it from the system, or Firecontrol will not initiate properly. This wasn't even a Firewire chain that the Firestudio was on, it was a completely separate chain.
Thanks for disparaging an older system, Samuel1, that's very helpful to less affluent Mac users. It wasn't a chipset problem at all. Perhaps you should post less often and think more frequently.
The job of the Presonus is to make sure that the software works on all possible platforms. Sometimes that involves testing that clearly has not been done.

[samuel1]

I was not trying to disparage anyone, I was just considering a fact: it is true sometimes that despite logic old chipsets sometimes just do not work with newer hardware. My band just recorded our record at a studio where the engineer used an old version of pro tools running on a computer almost identical to that - dual 400Mhz powermac I think - so i dont have some kind of "you old fools with stupid old chipsets" attitude, really man whatever works.

and about installing tiger, seriously that was an honest question. I have a mac tower near that old and I had not tried to install tiger on it yet.

so I just wanted to let you know that I did not mean anything unkind by what I said, it was intended well.