- #WHAT IS THE BEST FIREWIRE AUDIO INTERFACE FOR MAC DRIVERS#
- #WHAT IS THE BEST FIREWIRE AUDIO INTERFACE FOR MAC UPDATE#
- #WHAT IS THE BEST FIREWIRE AUDIO INTERFACE FOR MAC UPGRADE#
#WHAT IS THE BEST FIREWIRE AUDIO INTERFACE FOR MAC DRIVERS#
I'd be very surprised if this ever happened for most Firewire devices, though (aside from class-compliant devices whose drivers ship with the OS) that's likely a lot of work for very little benefit (a device driver is more likely than application code to hit some of the places where ARM differs significantly from x86_64). Rosetta does not translate kernel extensions.Īpple's only deprecating kernel extensions as the APIs they use are replaced by newer system extension APIs that hasn't happened for Firewire devices yet, so, hypothetically, one could compile a kernel extension for a Firewire device on ARM. I think the only potential limitation, other than in things like DAW software, would be if a FireWire device required a kernel extension to work - I can't say for sure but I think they're architecture-specific, and I doubt Rosetta would translate one (even if the OS allowed loading it, remember Apple's been moving away from kexts). I don't see why other FireWire devices wouldn't communicate either. The drive spun up and mounted on the Mac. Out of curiosity, I just hooked up this chain:įireWire 400 external drive -> FW400-to-FW800 cable -> Thunderbolt 2-to-FW800 adapter -> Thunderbolt 3-to-Thunderbolt 2 adapter -> M1 MacBook Pro I'm not a hardware expert, but I don't understand why that chain wouldn't work even with an M1 AS Mac protocols are protocols. My MBP is still booting macOS 10.13 High Sierra, but I have on occasion connected it through through the same Thunderbolt-2-to-Firewire-800 adapter stevenkan mentioned-and that adapter in turn plugged into my MBP with an Apple Thunderbolt-3-to-Thunderbolt-2 adapter-to a NewerTech drive dock cabled with FireWire 800. The same is not true of my auxiliary 2010 Mac Pro, but is true of my late-2016 MacBook Pro 13,3. All you need is an external Firewire device like a storage drive in an enclosure that supports Firewire, preferably FW800. Most use them for external drives because Firewire is faster than USB. OTOH the key word in your post may be "yet", referring to third-party plugins. What is a FireWire port on a Mac Firewire is a file transfer protocol.
#WHAT IS THE BEST FIREWIRE AUDIO INTERFACE FOR MAC UPDATE#
This article says you can update every mid-2017 iMac18,n to Big Sur. But hopefully by around mid-next year we should have better answers around production ecosystems so that I can finally replace the iMac.
#WHAT IS THE BEST FIREWIRE AUDIO INTERFACE FOR MAC UPGRADE#
I can't even upgrade my 2017 iMac (dedicated studio machine, a couple UAD rack mount interfaces, lots and lots of third party plugins) to Big Sur, let alone see a clear path to M1 yet. I'll happily wait until all the audio software and plugins get their M1 poop in a group. I honestly have no complaints about my trusty 2009 Mac Pro that's ably doing the job right now. Oh, there's no way I'm testing this myself.
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