Zoom H4 Incompatibility with Leopard

8 11 2007

USB interfaces including Zoom H4 as well as many firewire interfaces are having issues with Leopard.

This was a problem I thought wouldn’t have arisen as a couple of months back I couldn’t use my Behringer firewire interface with OS10.4.10. Eventually I had to go back to OS10.4.9. So I was glad to upgrade to OS 10.5 Leopard thinking that all the problems would be gone which for the Behringer unit is so. However my Zoom H4 is having issues.

Zoom H4

Yesterday I sent this email to a podcast Inside Home Recording

…when I plug in my H4 it shows that it is powered and connected to the Mac but it doesn’t come up on the desktop. Therefore I can’t get any data off. I’ve sent an email to Zoom Japan and they are aware of the issue. So as far as the Apple forums are concerned I’m snookered for the moment. Unless some one can come up with a solution I’ll be forced to download to another machine and burn disks to transfer the files. I may even have to use a PC 😦 Until this is resolved…

On Sunday I sent an email to Zoom Corporation and today to my surprise Read the rest of this entry »