Mackie Blackbird & PT9 - was going so well

[Neesley]

Mackie Blackbird & PT9 worked fine in my studio for nearly a week.
Today I went to record a live concert and... almost a disaster.

PT9 would not recognize the Mackie even though it showed up in the Apple Audio/Midi Set program. In this program it was not listed as an option in the PT9 Aggregate driver side-panel. Somehow though massive amounts of shutdowns, new FW cables the Mackie appeared again as an option in the Aggregate driver side-panel of the Apple Audio/MIDI Setup program.

Home free, right? Not so fast. Now I'm getting random digital clicks making pretty much any classical recording useless.

Any ideas?

I'd given up on any M-Audio interface since PT always crashed - 610, 2626, ProFire Solo. None was reliable. Probably the M-Audio FW driver since all three devices...

This was an erase & install of OSX 10.6 with combo upgrade to 10.6.4. Then PT9. No non-Avid plug-ins. As plain vanilla as possible.

Last useable PT was my DIGI002 (died in the end) fed by Apogee Rosetta and AMEK 9098 preamps with Schoeps M/S mic. Very minimalist.

MacBook Pro 4gig RAM OSX 10.6.4
External HD 7200 RPM Oxford 911 yada yada yada
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[kenkelly81]

What ever happened with your Blackbird? Did you get it working or did you get another interface?

I was think about the Blackbird as a mobile solution to use with my MBP.