I successfully ran a Motif XS/XF w/FW through to mid 2019… I was able to adapt the Thunderbolt to 9-pin FW and the 9-pin FW to 6-pin FW.
Yamaha motif xf os full#
Your path is going to be full of non-compliance, 32-bit versus 64-bit plug-in nightmares, and the feeling you are out on a tree limb without help.Įverything is 64-bit now, some stuff back in 2007 were 32-bit only. You maybe able to succeed -restoring old systems… If you avoid newer Macs (nothing newer than first generation Thunderbolt) and if you can find a DAW version that can run on that old OS. You may have other nostalgic reasons for this time travel adventure… but you have been warned. (Plus it can run on the majority of present day computers and computer OS - excusing Apple’s latest chipset change, etc., which is the first major hiccup since the days of XS (mid-2000s when Apple had its last major change). Not only are all the Motif XS sounds compatible with the new MONTAGE engine but you get more than double the processing power, double the number of audio bus outputs, about eight to ten times the synthesizer. Well, I would be remiss if I didn’t try to talk you into a MONTAGE and the current 32-bus audio out, 6-bus audio return system via USB. “Friends don’t let friends use MS-DOS” - That was the old saying, back-in-the-day before Windows.
Yamaha motif xf os driver#
I would abandon all hope of returning to mLAN (Motif ES circa 2003), and if you are up for the adventure, make an effort to get the Yamaha Steinberg FW Driver to run on a dedicated old system computer. It also was compatible with the newer FW driver (peer-to-peer), like the XF.
Now the XS goes all the way back to mLAN (which allowed networking). You will want a Mac that has FW, or at least Thunderbolt hardware connectors that can be made backward compatible with FireWire.Īny of the more recent Macintosh computers cannot be adapted back to use FW (afaik). Mainly, because the playing field is filled with several booby traps because of several operating system changes. We're talking XS8 here What's it gonna take to get an mlan functioning ,FireWire rig running?My first instinct is to say, a Time Machine.