Virus Ti Snow + Ableton 7 problem

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Originally Posted by psy604

it got no PCMCIA?! just can't understand all that MAC hype ... if it not even got the most basic industry standard expansion slot.

you could modify it by soldering in 4 wires (just before the internal hub) to gain access to a native USB port (without any warranty).

this firewire-2-USB adapters are mainly designed for connecting DV equipment to an USB 2.0 port (there's PAL & NTSC versions).

only thing i could imagine would be some firewire audio-interface with MIDI I/O ... but you couldn't use the TI feature this way.

Maybe the PCMCIA card was the most basic industry standard expansion slot in 1996 but last I checked that was three Presidency terms away and an awful lot has changed. Back then, we didn't even use USB as a connection protocal for any type of midi controller, let alone full fledged synthesizers/hardware inside a sequencing program.

I have a macbook (Core Duo 2 1.87 ghz, 2 gigs of ram) and a Snow and have had zero connectivity issues after about 1 day of figuring out the device.

You need to use one of the two macbooks native USB ports. Update to the latest OS (2.7.3) immediatly. Make sure you have the USB cable connected when you go to update. You do not need to have Ableton Live booted up (nor the Snow plugged in yet). Download directly from the Access site. Once the update has downloaded save it to your desktop. THEN, plug in the Snow via USB to one of those aforementioned native ports and double click the update installer. The update should begin (look at the Snow display and you should see (update in progress.)

Once this is complete restart the macbook. Boot up Ableton Live 7. Select the Snow VSTI under VST plug ins and then wait for it to intialize. This should do it. If the unit won't work it may be a defective Snow.

I'd have to consider that an option.