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  • Tascam us-144 and Macintosh

    I'm hoping you folks might be able to help with this.

    I recently convinced my wife that we should replace our old computer and that the new one should be an iMac (I'm a Mac, she's a PC - a mixed marriage). We did, and everything was great and then I hit a minor glitch.

    On the old PC I was using a Tascam us-144 audio interface and the Cubase LE that came with it to record (piano, acoustic, electric guitar, cornet - mostly to record the children for grandma and grandad to hear). I like using it because of the 2 xlr mic inputs.

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    Knowing that apples come with garage band I thought it would be easy to hook the us-144 up and record into garageband, but this is not proving to be the case.

    The mac seems to recognize the us-144 device, and I can garageband appears to recognize it as a potential source. It lets me select it as an input source for a track. However, I can't seem to get any sound and it won't record. It also has a tendency to crash (shock) the mac and I have to re-start.


    I did think to get the firmware updater and the mac drivers here, but they are not seeming to help:

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    I know the us-144 works fine on the PC and with the headphones in the unit's jack I can hear the mics and the guitar, so my feeling is that there is something I am missing in the software (I am not very familiar with garageband), or else maybe the us-144 is too old and the mac is too new to be compatible?

    I did a search here, but didn't see discussion of a similar problem.

  • #2
    Originally posted by JHow View Post
    I know the us-144 works fine on the PC and with the headphones in the unit's jack I can hear the mice and the guitar...
    If you can hear mice in your headphones you probably ought to call an exterminator. Sorry- when I reading your post I thought it said mice. My bad!

    Do you have Apple Care? I have heard that they are very helpful but I guess you do have to pay for that service.

    Good luck!

    Steve Ahola
    The Blue Guitar
    www.blueguitar.org
    Some recordings:
    https://soundcloud.com/sssteeve/sets...e-blue-guitar/
    .

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    • #3
      Oops. Yes, the mice squeaking is annoying.

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      • #4
        have you checked the sound system preference to see if the 144 is set as the input and output device?

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