Mbox with quicksilver mac problem or not ??

[Rob Flinn]

Hello, 

I am trying to put a PT le system together for home.    Someone has donated a dual processor qicksilver mac, but reading the digidesign site it says to absolutley stick clear of the quicksilver.    I was taling with DDT & he said that this could be because the USB ports are a bit quirky on the quicksilvers.    Does anyone have any experience or ideas on the subject ?

 

[sintech]

That could be just the guys machine or USB port, I have 2 Mboxes both with loose USB ports, it's just not a great connection system. If I was to get another it would defo be the firewire.

 

[MartyMart]

Rob, never heard that one as a specific "no go" but USB and audio has never been very stable.
I would always go the firewire or a PCI card route - no exeptions and I've had zero issues with
these two connections since 1999.

Marty.

 

[kazper]

Worst case toss in a firewire/usb card that uses a decent chipset and use that as your system connection.

 

[amorris@home]

Here's an interesting resource:
http://lowendmac.com/ppc/quicksilver-power-mac-g4.html

 

[Rob Flinn]

Well we hooked up the mbox to the quicksilver & it seemed to work ok.   I didn't have any multiple track projects to load but it ran 10 reverb plugins simultaneously.

 

[amorris@home]

If this is an outside client, you might tell them if they lose connection jsut to unplug and replug the USB. I have USB issues generally like that and the 002 and 003 have firewire issues that dissappear with a replugging.

 

[Rob Flinn]

This system is actually for me at home.

Thanks or the tips.

I have been looking at the digidesign website here http://archive.digidesign.com/compato/osx/panther/mbox/g4.cfm & it seems to say that it is compatible with PT 6.9 in the top box on the page.  This is a dual 1 GHz quicksilver.

Yet on this page http://www.digidesign.com/index.cfm?navid=3&langid=100&categoryid=35&itemid=24392 under "not recommended" it says "All "Quicksilver" models from 2001-2002 ".  This is for PT7.3x

Now how confusing does this get ??

The bottom line is that when we installed the mbox mini & 7.31 it seems to work ok, but as I said it wasn't taxed to the max !!