MiniFuse 2 Audio Woes Macbook Pro

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#1

Hello All, bought a MiniFuse 2 last week, plugged it in, all great for a few hours, updated firmware by mistake (should make no difference I would have though). Next day, audio from my web-brower breaks up when turning on the computer. Reset web brower, audio ok again, have to go thru this for a hour of so and the audio settles down… It’s almost like the interface has to ‘warm-up’ to work. On a Mac with High Sierra.

Getting frustrated with it now. Any suggestions folks?

#2

Hi, Is the problem only occurring in a browser? Have you tried iTunes? Do you have any synth plugins installed?

Is the MacBook on battery or mains power?

What is the spec of your MacBook as the Minifuse minimum requirement is OSX 10.13 ie High Sierra as you have installed.

You could try a PRAM reset in case there is an issue:

How to Reset PRAM or NVRAM

  1. Power off your Mac.
  2. Press your Mac’s power button and then hold these four keys at the same time: ⌘ + option + P + R.
  3. Continue holding the keys until your Mac restarts for the second time. On older Macs, the chime will sound upon restart.
#3

main power and audio breaks up with other apps too… Done with what you suggested. Got an old ishowu driver which I cannot remove for some reason.

#4

Can you post an image of your audio settings?

Also, what are the MacBooks specs: RAM, CPU etc?

#5

it’s a really old macbook so I’m kind of guessing this working against me a little. Fired up this morning, audio breaks up within a few minutes, open Ableton up, perfect since…

#6

I suspect it’s age and spec is not helping. When OSX starts it is doing all sorts of stuff. Including some housekeeping, then It settles down. You could monitor disk and CPU activity during that first 30 mins in the Activity Monitor app in /Application/Utilities. If it’s spiking then settles down you may be looking at an upgrade or new MacBook. If you intend to get into music making, a low spec MacBook will not work. You need to think about an M1, M2 , M3 or the forthcoming M4 processors to run Arturia s/w. I upgraded to a base spec M2 8gb RAM and it is fantastic.

Good luck on your journey.

#7

confession… Macbook Pro 15" 2009! Still going and relatively stable…

#8

I have that one too. It’s been in a drawer for over 5 years as it is useless for modern music making. Time to break open your piggy bank :slight_smile:

#9

did a PRAM reset twice, swapped USB port for Minifuse, so far it seems to have settled down.