Edirol Releases Drivers for Mac OS X Tiger
May 1, 2005
Edirol has released new drivers
supporting Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger for eleven current and legacy devices. Edirol
posted these drivers on the morning of the release of Tiger to ensure that
Mac customers could continue to work and enjoy their Edirol products with
the latest OS.
Eleven new drivers have been released to ensure support for Mac OS X 10.4
Tiger. This includes the complete complement of Edirol's current USB audio
and audio+MIDI devices, as well as some legacy devices.
Edirol's current OS X MIDI drivers require no update to function fully on
Tiger allowing USB MIDI Keyboards, USB MIDI Interfaces, Sound Modules, and
Hardware Synthesizers (23 models in all) to function with previously
compiled drivers.
In addition, a number of Edirol Audio Devices are supported natively in Mac
OS X so therefore require no driver update with Tiger, namely FA-101, FA-66,
UA-1X, UA-1D and UA-3D.
About Tiger's improvements for audio:
64-bit audio file support
Tiger improves on the robust audio capabilities of Panther by adding 64-bit
audio file support, which effectively removes the 2GB limit on the size of
an audio file. This allows a single audio file to contain up to a thousand
tracks of PCM or compressed audio in a single file of indeterminate size.
Device Aggregation
Mac OS X Tiger now allows you to use multiple audio devices together to
increase the number of input and output channels. You can combine devices of
like sampling rate together, whether via FireWire, PCI or built-in, into a
single aggregated device. Set up is made via Audio MIDI Setup and your new
"virtual" device will automatically show up in all applications on the
system.
The latest Edirol drivers are located here:
www.edirol.com/support/drivers.html
For more information, visit their web site at www.edirol.com. | 
