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Old 07-11-2022, 02:38 PM
Darryl Ramm Darryl Ramm is online now
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Default Re: Avid Mbox Pro Firewire - any way to connect to usb?

Uh now with some actual clarity. Yes looks like from online reviews etc. your laptop has Thunderbolt 3.

There are multiple Thunderbolt to Firewire adapters. Apple makes one that is widely used (mostly on Macs obviously but does work on Windows as well), Thunderbolt to Firewire 800:

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/M...rewire-adapter

and you would need to use that with Apples Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt adapter

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/M...bolt-2-adapter

That combo should work, but there have been some reports of windows users having issues, often *not* caused by the adapters but by other crap. You will need to get and test and bear in mind the other issuse of driver support. If you are running Windows 11 you might want to confirm with other users here that the final drivers releases (years ago) still work on Windows 11. Hopefully they will but you need to pay more attention when using well beyond end of support life products, especially from Avid. Avid finally did the right thing for everybody and gave up on the consumer interface market. Esp. the lower-end stuff was a cluster****, the Mbox Pro was an OK box, but poorly supported and killed off early compared to better vendors, Avid don't even bother to list the Mbox on list of end of life dates. Lots of third party vendors to choose from who do better with customer support and longer term support than Avid did: RME (for sure), UAD, Focusrite, Motu, ...

Last edited by Darryl Ramm; 07-11-2022 at 03:08 PM.
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