Hi All,
I need some help from anyone with a similar setup. I suspect I may be on a hiding to nothing here, but I'm starting to experiment with a mobile setup and so I bought a secondhand Mbox 3 off Ebay. I hooked it to my working Mac Pro setup (TDM rig-see my specs below), installed the driver and successfully ran a test ProTools session on it. So far so good.
Next I looked at a secondhand laptop on Ebay, and because I was partially buying this for the missus to use around the house as well as to dip my toes into the "mobile" world, I actually decided not to lay down a lot of money right now for a latest version Retina machine, and just bought a beautiful Hi-Res screen version of the Early 2011 MacBook Pro (8,2).
Yesterday I finally got around to connecting the Mbox to the laptop and after the Mbox went through it's lights cycling, it then immediately reverted to just the flashing blue power light. Bad news I thought. Although this machine came pre-installed with El Capitan (still just experimenting with it, and will possibly downgrade the OS if/when necessary), the Mbox goes into this non-working mode immediately the computer is powered on, and long before it could "know" what OS is running. IOW, even though I've tried installing the driver and the control panel definitely does not see the Mbox, this is not the issue I feel.
So, my suspicion is that the laptop does not have enough USB juice to power the Mbox properly, in which case I will need to get a powered hub to go with it (more junk to cart around for my supposedly "mobile" rig). Can anyone else either confirm or deny that this machine should be able to power the Mbox on it's own? I obviously have the MacBook on the mains charger while trying this.
Any help is much appreciated.
Regards
Steve Bush
I need some help from anyone with a similar setup. I suspect I may be on a hiding to nothing here, but I'm starting to experiment with a mobile setup and so I bought a secondhand Mbox 3 off Ebay. I hooked it to my working Mac Pro setup (TDM rig-see my specs below), installed the driver and successfully ran a test ProTools session on it. So far so good.
Next I looked at a secondhand laptop on Ebay, and because I was partially buying this for the missus to use around the house as well as to dip my toes into the "mobile" world, I actually decided not to lay down a lot of money right now for a latest version Retina machine, and just bought a beautiful Hi-Res screen version of the Early 2011 MacBook Pro (8,2).
Yesterday I finally got around to connecting the Mbox to the laptop and after the Mbox went through it's lights cycling, it then immediately reverted to just the flashing blue power light. Bad news I thought. Although this machine came pre-installed with El Capitan (still just experimenting with it, and will possibly downgrade the OS if/when necessary), the Mbox goes into this non-working mode immediately the computer is powered on, and long before it could "know" what OS is running. IOW, even though I've tried installing the driver and the control panel definitely does not see the Mbox, this is not the issue I feel.
So, my suspicion is that the laptop does not have enough USB juice to power the Mbox properly, in which case I will need to get a powered hub to go with it (more junk to cart around for my supposedly "mobile" rig). Can anyone else either confirm or deny that this machine should be able to power the Mbox on it's own? I obviously have the MacBook on the mains charger while trying this.
Any help is much appreciated.
Regards
Steve Bush
Early 2011 MacBook & Mbox 3 compatability??
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