{"id":2692,"date":"2020-11-21T08:36:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T08:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bassdress.com\/blog\/?p=2692"},"modified":"2025-09-20T10:31:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T09:31:04","slug":"motu-24i-o-and-pci-drivers-on-catalina-big-sur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassdress.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/21\/motu-24i-o-and-pci-drivers-on-catalina-big-sur\/","title":{"rendered":"MOTU 24I\/O And PCI Drivers on Catalina &#038; Big Sur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve hacked together a way of getting my 4x MOTU 24I\/Os (and likely all other MOTU PCI \/ PCI-E devices) working on newer version of MacOS.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m fucking pissed off with unnecessarily dropping support for hardware &#8211; especially stunningly expensive, niche hardware. Not only would it cost me a small fortune to replace the 24I\/Os, but I&#8217;d spend weeks rewiring my studio.<\/p>\n<p>Right so, to get these fuckers working on you newer MacOS device here&#8217;s what you need:<\/p>\n<p><strong>SOFTWARE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Download <a href=\"https:\/\/bassdress.com\/blog\/downloads\/MOTU Audio Installer 1.6 (73220).pkg\">MOTU Audio Installer 1.6 (73220).pkg<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Download <a href=\"https:\/\/bassdress.com\/blog\/downloads\/MOTU Audio Installer 1.6 (83634).pkg\">MOTU Audio Installer 1.6 (83634).pkg<\/a> (yes, both)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Download <a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlessoft.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pacifist<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PROCESS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Open Terminal are do the following: &#8220;sudo mount -uw \/&#8221;. This mounts the System partition of MacOS and makes it writable. This is where we&#8217;ll be installing the drivers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Open MOTU Audio Installer 1.6 (73220).pkg with Pacifist. You should see the following.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"627\" height=\"406\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-21-at-08.21.01.png?resize=627%2C406&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-21-at-08.21.01.png?resize=1024%2C663&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-21-at-08.21.01.png?resize=300%2C194&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-21-at-08.21.01.png?resize=768%2C497&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-21-at-08.21.01.png?w=1303&amp;ssl=1 1303w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Right click on &#8220;Contents of PCI_and_PCI_Express_Drivers.pkg&#8221; and select &#8220;Install to Default Location&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"627\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-21-at-08.21.32.png?resize=627%2C416&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-21-at-08.21.32.png?resize=1024%2C680&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-21-at-08.21.32.png?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-21-at-08.21.32.png?resize=768%2C510&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-21-at-08.21.32.png?w=1291&amp;ssl=1 1291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>If you receive any errors at this point, it&#8217;s likely that your System partition isn&#8217;t writable. Go have a look on Google to see what you need to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next, we need to open the newer MOTU Audio Installer 1.6 (83634).pkg with Pacifist. First thing I should draw your attention to is that those cunts have removed the PCI_and_PCI_Express_Drivers.pkg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So now we need to install the applications by opening &#8220;Contents of Common.pkg \/ Applications&#8221; There you should see &#8220;CueMix FX.app&#8221;, which for my purposes is required to get my set up customised to how I needed it. The drives should work without this, but you&#8217;d be missing some functionality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"627\" height=\"402\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-21-at-08.26.38.png?resize=627%2C402&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-21-at-08.26.38.png?resize=1024%2C657&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-21-at-08.26.38.png?resize=300%2C193&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-21-at-08.26.38.png?resize=768%2C493&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-21-at-08.26.38.png?w=1288&amp;ssl=1 1288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway drag &#8220;CueMix FX.app&#8221; to your Applications folder and restart your computer. After a reboot you should now see that everything is working as it should.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since we don&#8217;t have an app to allow us to change the sample rate of the device now, this can be done natively in MacOS &#8220;Audio Midi Setup&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"627\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-21-at-08.30.52.png?resize=627%2C440&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-21-at-08.30.52.png?resize=1024%2C719&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-21-at-08.30.52.png?resize=300%2C211&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-21-at-08.30.52.png?resize=768%2C539&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Screenshot-2020-11-21-at-08.30.52.png?w=1183&amp;ssl=1 1183w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve hacked together a way of getting my 4x MOTU 24I\/Os (and likely all other MOTU PCI \/ PCI-E devices) working on newer version of MacOS. I&#8217;m fucking pissed off with unnecessarily dropping support for hardware &#8211; especially stunningly expensive, niche hardware. Not only would it cost me a small fortune to replace the 24I\/Os, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rubbish"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2692"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3111,"href":"https:\/\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2692\/revisions\/3111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}