mmm42 Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 It seems that even 20+ year old hardware gets updates for Apple Silicon: Unitor 8, AMT 8 and MT 4 just received a new driver: https://support.apple.com/kb/DL2090 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
des99 Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 OMG! Yes!! Thank you emApple - this was a very nice surprise! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmm42 Posted March 14, 2022 Author Share Posted March 14, 2022 You are welcome. BTW: If you are on Intel, I think there is no reason to update from 2.5. The reason for this update is finally to support Apple Silicon, but it should work on any version of macOS 10.15 or later and on any Mac hardware. 32-bit Intel and PowerPC support are gone… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
des99 Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 Comments from GS: - "Thanks for sharing. I can hardly believe my luck. Today I love apple more than ever!!" - "After iLok EMAGIC Unitor is now native Apple Silicon compatible, too Nature is healing!!! <3" Whether it required some kidnapping and/or arm-twisting of management, or whether it was something the team endeavoured to do as a personal project or something - it's super appreciated and I'm glad (as many others are too) that I can hang on to a few more blue emagic devices (that still otherwise work perfectly) for some time to come yet! Thanks M.! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmm42 Posted March 14, 2022 Author Share Posted March 14, 2022 You can thank Gerhard for this – he pushed for it. And obviously a lot of people in the team had a personal interest to get their otherwise fine MIDI interfaces working on new Macs. Nobody at Apple was fighting it, everybody thought it was a neat idea to do an update for 20+ year old hardware. The main issue was actually not the engineering part, but actually getting it shipped: building it, code-signing it, putting it into an installer – all that is something _nobody_ at Apple has ever done. It's not like Apple shipped stand-alone MIDI drivers, like ehm _ever_. So, that took a lot of time and patience, because obviously it was not Apples most important project, so it was done during some spare cycles. We are all happy that we could do that and hope that it makes some people with these old devices smile. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stanford Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 This is fantastic news! Thanks to evryone involved for getting this done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
des99 Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 Indeed! It's actually amazing how much emagic-designed gear has really stood the test of time, across what was really a fairly chaotic period in music technology. That stuff was really done right, and as a consequence, Unitors/AMT8's, and the Logic/Mackie Control (and MCU protocol) are still going strong today - and now, for some time to come. Thanks again to everyone that made this happen! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ODUS Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 INCREDIBLE !!! So many people still have those amazing units... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heilei Posted March 15, 2022 Share Posted March 15, 2022 Whoever you are, and whatever you did, THANK YOU! My two AMT8s are now happier than ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darude Posted March 15, 2022 Share Posted March 15, 2022 THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE AND NUMEROUS HAPPY TEARS! Wohoo! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
señor bling Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 I'd like to join in the chorus cheering the people who made it possible! Thank you so much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoisiePants Posted March 16, 2022 Share Posted March 16, 2022 This gives me such a warm feeling, to know that the old crew are still running the show, and still care deeply about their users - thanks so much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macmuse Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 I just found out about this. A BIG THANK YOU to all those who made it happen!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macmuse Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 Does someone have this? The link is no longer viable, yet it was last night but I wasn't at my computer so I couldn't download it. Now it's gone. ?????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmm42 Posted March 21, 2022 Author Share Posted March 21, 2022 Some server issues… Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
des99 Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 Works for me here, just tried it now - so try again if it wasn't working... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmm42 Posted March 21, 2022 Author Share Posted March 21, 2022 Yes, it was not a time limited offer for a week Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macmuse Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 (edited) Yeah I didn't think it was. It's working again, got it. Thanks. And thank you again in Germany for doing this for us. Very much appreciate your effort. So happy! Edited March 21, 2022 by macmuse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EverVale Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 Super happy about this one! Cheers!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
des99 Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 This had made loads of people happy around the internets. For once there's a release with nothing to complain about (even though quite a few people had seemingly, like me, decommissioned their emagic interfaces in the previous week, or bought new interfaces due to thinking they'd never be supported - but even then, there was surprisingly little moaning I've seen.) Just good vibes all round! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ODUS Posted March 21, 2022 Share Posted March 21, 2022 This had made loads of people happy around the internets. or bought new interfaces due to thinking they'd never be supported ha ha yes I bought a MIDITECH 4X4 in between, but kept my AMT8, so happy I did Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zuriel Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 I have 2 x Unitor8 MKII's running on a Macbook Pro 15" 10.14 and soon 10.15 (but no hurry etc) I was pleasantly surprised because I have been holding off on updating because of the unitors.. Last year I lost my 3 x PCI-e 424 and motus and had to drop 3400 on new MOTU hardware that was thunderbolt compatible so this was a real blessing... considering my 3 x old MOTU's are 24 bit and sound beautiful its almost like a waste that they work.. but are driverless... Thanks to everyone at Apple that made this happen! My Unitors aren't 20 years old.. they are 20 years young Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emaitch Posted April 18, 2022 Share Posted April 18, 2022 Thank you, Gerhard and team! Feeling the love. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Bellas Posted April 18, 2022 Share Posted April 18, 2022 Thank you mmm42, Gerhard, and the rest of the crew that made this happen. It is truly appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onewave Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 Thanks, this is Great news! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowercaser Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 I was super excited to find put the drivers are finally here, but I'm wondering if anyone having issues with sysex at all. I simply can't make any sysex work from/to any device connected to my Unitor 8 (MacOS Monterey, M1 Max MacBook Pro). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowercaser Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 Right, so I discovered the MagicUSB MIDI Driver I had been using didn't get deleted when the Unitor Family 3 driver was installed and it seems to have been preventing that from working correctly. Trashed it and now everything works fine. Great work everyone involved! Much appreciated. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted May 25, 2022 Share Posted May 25, 2022 Just now, lowercaser said: Trashed it and now everything works fine. Great! Good to hear and thanks a lot for sharing that solution with us, might be valuable for other members. 😃 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottkrk Posted May 28, 2022 Share Posted May 28, 2022 (edited) I had ordered an MOTU interface and it arrives tomorrow so I thought I would do one last google search for 'AMT8 M1', I'm glad I did! I don't remember seeing it in the 10.7.4 release notes, but anyway, I'm glad that Apple have released an offical driver. I always imagined the Emagic/Apple guys in the Logic development team would still be using Unitors/AMTs. It is great to see Apple being more responsive to the Pro App community, baby steps but definitely in the right direction My next goal is to get SoundDiver working in Win11 compatibility mode via parallels on M1 Edited May 28, 2022 by scottkrk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Lorentsen Posted July 19, 2022 Share Posted July 19, 2022 (edited) I installed the latest driver, but I had some minor problems. On the "Unitor" tab inside Project settings -> Synchronization, it said "Device Firmware: not recognized", and the device didn't respond to any changes to the SMTP sync options. No lights indicating SMTP/clock either. However, when trashing the v.3 driver and reinstalling v.2.5, it now says "Device Firmware: Ports 1…8 - Version 2.0.4" and the MTC/SMTP is working again. Also, with the latest driver installed, the patch mode was not loading any of my custom patches, and the device didn't respond to program change messages or sysex. Works perfectly with the 2.5 driver. I just wanted to share this in case anyone is having issues with it. iMac 2018 (Intel) 16 GB ram macOS 12.5 Logic Pro 10.7.4 Unitor 8 mkII (USB) Edited July 19, 2022 by atchoo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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