Wow. Couldn’t believe it: i ordered everything and just one day later my stuff arrived! Thanks Thomann Musichouse, that was really great. Anyway, i started on friday to install everything… and then pain began. I dropped in my Terratec Phase 88, and say what, my Mac didn’t recognize it. This was the start of a horrible weekend… sometime the Phase 88 appeared. When i installed the software which came with the hardware, it dissappeared. Driverupdates didn’t work. I tried to upgrade the firmware (in the rare cases the fucking hardware appeared), but this ended with a strange errormessage. After that it never appeared again. I thought it could be my OS X 10.4.x installation, cause i recognized sometime that the move from PPC to Intel platform brought problems to me. So my LD still used PPC platform, while everything used Intel.
However, i made a backup of everything, hoped the best, and started to reinstall OS X. I dropped in the Phase 88- and see, it appeared. My Microphone In didn’t work and i couldn’t hear anything when working with Logic Express, so i gave the drivers a try again (and the firmware), cause i thought everything is fine with that new OS X. I started to install the firmware (latest, from terratec website) and- it failed! And: Phase 88 disappeared again!!
GWAR! What’s that *§$!”? Did the Terratec people EVER test their hardware on a Mac? This is unbelievable! I contacted Thoman this morning i told em i want a PHONIC FIREFLY 808, which is a bit more expensive, but maybe lots better for that fukking piece of shit, which they call Soundcard. I really hope this will result in everything working. I am really – well, lets say dissapointed – and if this doesn’t work, i will buy a simple and small soundcard without support for my TD-20 drums. They have to be recorded about MIDI, then. Well, this is future; i really hope my send-back-card from thoman arrive tomorror or latest at wednesday and maybe at saturday i have the new stuff at home.