Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Apple Abandoning Core Audio Over Firewire With macOS Ventura

 Starting with macOS 13 Ventura, Apple is stopping compatibility and development for Firewire Core Audio. So Firewire audio devices will no longer work.

Apogee Digital article.

Presonus announces EOD for Firewire products.

That's a blow to Firewire audio interfaces owners, and renders such devices obsolete overnight.

Some manufacturers were clever enough to incorporate a dual connection: Firewire + USB, and I salute them for that. Hopefully if you have a Firewire audio interface, it also has USB connections.

On the other end, good old IEEE1394 is now 37 years old now!

I had plenty of FW drives of course, and DV video would have not been possible without Firewire connections and protocol.

By the way, DV is now deemed an obsolete format. Time to go through your DV tape troves and digitize everything before it's too late.

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