Ni Maschine - audio from mac gone

[rainstick]

OK, i kind of need help trouble shooting on this ( i think!? ) but what happened -

 

I brought NI Maschine and a 2tb Gtech hard drive earlier today... I installed NI Maschine and put my external HD in (although i didn't install Maschine onto the new external, so that might not really have any role in this problem )

 

And after using Maschine for a very short amount of time the audio went from my computer - I couldn't preview thing's in the finder, quicktime wouldn't work, so i just restarted my mac... And it happened again, and now when i turn it on there's just no audio at all when using my audio interface.

 

However, there is audio if i use the core audio (although i can't get maschine to work with that for some reason... )

 

SOOOO, i guess im trying to work out whether it's a problem with maschine, my audio interface or if it's a finder issue....

 

much appreciated, can't really get my head round it.

[triplets]

M-Audio interfaces are famous for not sharing anything on the firewire bus. In a nutshell, M-Audio interfaces are crap. Think about upgrading to Presonus or Motu later on.

See if unplugging the G-Tech momentarily solves the issue.

[rainstick]

In a nutshell - you were right.... damn! what a load of crap.... Going to have to get a new interface now (hadn't planned on that) I don't really need much interface wise at the moment (i rarely record at the mo, and when i do it's just 1 mic) ill have a look into the ones you suggested, if there's any other (cheap) ones that are worth looking at id be interested.

 

cheers triplets !