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Mbox not working after mac goes to sleep
Can't find any answers to this already posted, maybe someone here can help.
Whenever my Mac comes out of sleep mode, I need to reboot my Mac before the Mbox will work. This is especially true when wanting the play music from iTunes. Sometimes PT will work, but I can never get the Mbox to work playing audio from other apps. The USB light on the front of the unit does not light up and that is how I know when it is not working. If it doesn't work with PT, I get the error that the Mbox is not connected. Either of these problems is solved by a reboot. I'm sure I haven't always had this problem. Any ideas? 1.8 Dual G5 1.5 Gig RAM PTLE 6.4 Thanks! |
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Re: Mbox not working after mac goes to sleep
Don't let your Mac go to sleep. (Read the Getting Started Guide)
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Re: Mbox not working after mac goes to sleep
It's a requirement that you disable the sleep function on your Mac to use the Mbox. How did you miss that one?
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Re: Mbox not working after mac goes to sleep
I have recently moved from a PowerPC / 001 to a PowerBook / MBox setup and had forgotten about that sleep thing since I never let my desktop machines sleep.
I know I've put my powerbook to sleep w/ MBox connected and I think I just disconnected and reconnected it to get it working again. Now, this was not with a session open I don't think, but nonetheless, I'm pretty sure it worked out w/o a reboot. |
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Re: Mbox not working after mac goes to sleep
Does anyone know anything about the power consumption involved with never putting your computer to sleep? Sleep, as you probably know, is a very low energy mode comprable to having your computer turned off. I would imagine to leave your computer turned on constantly would consume a lot of power,,, but maybe not...any ideas?
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Re: Mbox not working after mac goes to sleep
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so dont do that. do you know how much $$ I spend keeping a 48 channel analog console powered up all the time? it has 2 power supplies and you know what... the mixer thanks me. so you might save 5.00 a month by shutting down. does it really matter? quit being so cheap! a damn computer? good thing you werent operating a studio in the old days. studios do not generally get shut down or "sleep" |
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Re: Mbox not working after mac goes to sleep
I don't have any problems with my Mbox when putting my powerbook to sleep (by closing it). However, if I don't quit PT before I put it to sleep it will sometimes act funny; like it won't engage play mode after waking up. asiabackpacker, do you leave PT running when you put your computer to sleep?
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Re: Mbox not working after mac goes to sleep
You've got to not have ProTools running AND not have DigiCoreAudio running when the system is put to sleep.
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Re: Mbox not working after mac goes to sleep
I generally make it a rule not to have anything running when I put my computer to sleep.
So, no PT is not running, nor is DigiCoreAudio. I do have auto-sleep disabled, and so only go in to sleep mode manually. I'll try unplugging my Mbox when I put my comp to sleep to see if that works, but I have never had to do that before and there was a time when I did not have this problem-I may be remembering back to last year when I was still running a G4 with OS9. |
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