Midas Venice F-series driver won't install on macOS Catalina

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Hello,

Okay, I just opened a topic on a download of the Midas Venice F-series driver. I found it, and withdrew the topic, but I think the drive that I downloaded is too outdated, because my mac won’t install it (i’m on Catalina). Some F-series users report online that they have a working driver and interface on Catalina. Also I can’t find anything on the driver not installing, it’s mostly people complaining that they can’t find the Midas Venice in audio devices, but not that the driver won’t install.

Am I missing something? Is there a more up to date driver than the one on the Midas website? Or should I somehow revert back to High Sierra for it to work?

Cheers,

Rogier

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I would go find a Midas or Live Sound forum, rather than looking for help in a forum for Elektron devices?
There might be a couple of people here that use that desk, but I doubt there are many.

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Thanks for the suggestion. There’s indeed a Music Tribe forum, but it’s got mostly people using M-series devices.

Besides, it’s not a very well kept forum space. I’ll try my luck here first, because I know there are F-series users here.

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did you check this thread?

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I found a solution. The older driver; 4.1.2. works apparently.

Weird because it lists way older MacOS supposed to work.

It actually works like a charm on Catalina now. Saves me the enormous hassle of reverting back to Monterrey or High Sierra :slight_smile:

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glad you found a solution! is support for these drivers dead? I assume you can’t ever move to an Apple Silicon machine?

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Thanks for posting both the question and answer here.

Helpful for others!

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Yeah I will indeed never move haha.

Well, I do have a RME Digiface USB and some ADAT converters. But now that the Midas is running as she’s supposed to, I’m going to sell those.

Having some 16 ins/out is costly, but doesn’t have to break the bank in case I ever move to M-chip macs :grinning:

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Glad this topic has some use in the future. I would advice anyone to take the leap and buy a console like this, if it fits your workflow. If you take the channel per coin value it’s insane. Especially since you can use it like an interface.

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For sure, it looks like an amazing mixer!

Was on my radar for a while but ended up going in a different direction!

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Yeah understandable, and a con to this mixer is that it’s quite old already. Some other options are perhaps a bit more future proof!

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