Arc4 with Max 7.1 and El Cap

dudadius · 2016-01-18T01:48:31.491Z

Hey guys, I was able to get my Arc4 (non-push button) working under El Cap and Max 7.1, but it’s rather intermittent. Goes in and out of communication. If I go into the DSP page and toggle that, it comes back. Any tips on getting that to be solid?

Thanks!

ngwese · 2016-01-18T02:46:17.243Z

Do you know if you are using Apple’s FTDI driver or the one from FTDI directly?

I’ve found things to be much more stable when I removed an older FTDI driver installed back under older versions of OS X. Since reverting to Apple’s driver I have found the El Cap + Max 7.1 to be solid.

…from another thread:

Problem detecting my grid if I disconnect/reconnect Monome

grid/arc detection significantly improved for me under el cap after removing the ftdi driver i had installed when running earlier versions of osx. i’m also running the version 1.4 of serialosc tldr; i’ve been working on an arc app with max and noticed that each time i disconnected the arc a “phantom” monome device was left in the os device tree (open the system information app and look at the usb section). searching the web yielded lots of reported problems around ftdi serial devices under el…

dudadius · 2016-01-18T03:27:29.972Z

thanks, I’ll give this a shot.

dudadius · 2016-01-18T11:33:37.090Z

Bummer…I didn’t see that driver installed anywhere…