I received a copy of Mac OS X Leopard late Friday morning. Instantly, I upgraded my laptop and everything went smooth. I was using it all day Friday and early Saturday morning. Then, I decided to plug in my M-Audio Oxygen 8 keyboard controller so I can finish a song I was working on in Logic Studio. I launch Logic and proceed to play the keyboard, but there’s no sound. I check and recheck my connections; restart the Oxygen 8; re-install the drivers and relaunch Logic. Still no sound. Oh yeah, I forgot I upgraded to Leopard. I checked M-Audio’s web site for driver information and, sure enough, they’re working on Leopard drivers for all their products. They say my product may or may not work and I’ll have to wait until new drivers are released. So when are they going to release new drivers? They can’t say for sure, as usual. Well, I can’t finish this song until the drivers are released.
The upside to all of this is now I can spend a good deal of time practicing the guitar. It’s one instrument I’ve always wanted to play (I play drums and keyboards) so now I can sit down and really learn how to play. I won’t have to worry about dealing with the complexities of recording software, new operating systems, and incompatible drivers. It’s just me and my guitar.
