December 14, 20169 yr Has anyone been successful in getting a USB audio dongle working with Sierra? I've tried two different dongles (Logitech and C-Media chipset), and they manage to crackle and pass snippets of sound, but I can't get them behaving better than that. I have passed through the USB controller, and everything else, including external drives, USB keys, Wireless k/m are working without issue. Thanks!
December 14, 20169 yr I don't use a "dongle" but an M-audio digital to audio convertor and it works fine. I was getting distortion when I was trying to get fancy with clover and assigning bus speed and processor speed info. Removed those settings and all was fine.
December 14, 20169 yr Author I don't use a "dongle" but an M-audio digital to audio convertor and it works fine. I was getting distortion when I was trying to get fancy with clover and assigning bus speed and processor speed info. Removed those settings and all was fine. Interesting! How does it connect to your server? I googled and I'm seeing a bunch of mentions of firewire. Can it communicate via USB?
December 15, 20169 yr I don't use a "dongle" but an M-audio digital to audio convertor and it works fine. I was getting distortion when I was trying to get fancy with clover and assigning bus speed and processor speed info. Removed those settings and all was fine. Interesting! How does it connect to your server? I googled and I'm seeing a bunch of mentions of firewire. Can it communicate via USB? It connects via usb. I have a usb 3 card passed through to the vm, and then run a usb 3 hub off that, which the dac plugs into. But I suspect that if i just plugged it into the server through one of the host machine's usb ports, I could pass it through that way as well.
March 6, 20179 yr Author I ended up giving up on the dongle. Just couldn't get decent sound on Sierra. Instead, I am using an hdmi matrix box that splits the sound channel out of the hdmi stream, and outputs it to analog.
March 6, 20179 yr i actually ended picking up one with a C-Media chipset that is attached to a usb3 card that is passed to the vm and haven't had any issues with it. I have another vm that also does the hdmi audio split out too... sorry you couldn't get the dongle working!
March 7, 20179 yr Author I think I'm actually happier this way. One less dongle sticking out of my usb hub! :).
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