Topic: optical ua-5 + mac?

[allan]

So i've got my D-mod ua-5 hooked up to my intel macbook, optical signal coming through fine in system prefs, but Cubase 3 doesn't seem to want to recognize the signal. I've tried everything i can think of in the device set up menu. Has anyone else run into this or have suggestions to make it work? Thanks

[bugg100]

Driver?
http://www.rolandus.com/products/productdetails.aspx?dsection=d_downloads&ObjectId=514

[sunjan]

Driver?

Nope. He's feeding the mac with an optical signal, that's platform independent and doesn't need any driver.

You should mention Cubase in the subject head, because it's probably software related.

I didn't know the macbook had digi-in, but reading the specs, it says "combined optical digital input/analog line in, combined optical digital output/analog line out"
http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs.html

Are there any settings in Cubase to select source, or switching from analog/digital input?

I know this sounds far fetched, but dud optical cable? Even though the system can recognize the signal, Cubase might ignore it if the cable drops samples. Had a similar issue with my UA-5 > H120 last year.

Last resort, try hooking it up with USB instead. Then you'd need a driver though.