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Post subject: Cant connect amplifier with fender fuse on my mac
Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 10:33 am
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Hello,

Im trying to connect my fender mustang 1 amplifier to fender fuse, but I cant get the two connected. I downloaded fender fuse yesterday, so its a fresh install. Silverlight is upgraded to the last version.

The minimum requierments for fender fuse are mac os 10.6. My mac runs on os 10.58. I couldnt find a download file which is compatible with my os, so I downloaded the new one. When I installed the software, no problems where reported. Fender fuse is opening and working, but cant make any connection.

Which leaves me with a few questions:
- Can I run fender fuse on my mac with os 10.58 (if not, is there a software version available compatible with my os)?
- If I can run fender fuse with the new software, why cant I make a connection?
It cant be my silverlight or my connection thats for sure. I uninstalled and installed fender fuse multiple times and tried different methods (first opening software and then putting the amplifier on an vice versa).

Can anybody help me out?

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Post subject: Re: Cant connect amplifier with fender fuse on my mac
Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 4:51 pm
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Which model Mac is it and is it intel or PowerPC?
If it says the minimum requirement is 10.6 then it stands to reason that there won't be a 10.5.8 version.

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Post subject: Re: Cant connect amplifier with fender fuse on my mac
Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 1:11 am
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Try disconnecting all other USB and firewire devices from your Mac. Then restart FUSE and see if it now finds the amp. Others have reported in the past that the presence of other USB/firewire devices on Macs can prevent FUSE seeing the USB connection to the amp. No-one knows why this is, but unplugging everything else sometimes seems to help.


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Post subject: Re: Cant connect amplifier with fender fuse on my mac
Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 7:36 am
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scott-uk wrote:
Try disconnecting all other USB and firewire devices from your Mac. Then restart FUSE and see if it now finds the amp. Others have reported in the past that the presence of other USB/firewire devices on Macs can prevent FUSE seeing the USB connection to the amp. No-one knows why this is, but unplugging everything else sometimes seems to help.



Interesting, scott-uk. I've not experienced this on my 8-core Mac Pro... knock on wood. In fact, I have my MII connected via two daisy-chained, powered USB hubs. I think Kroodiz's issue is more related to the OS version in that it is older than the minimum requirement.

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Post subject: Re: Cant connect amplifier with fender fuse on my mac
Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 8:48 am
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Thnx for the reply

As i said my os doesnt meet the system requierments needed for this version of fuse. I think this is the cause of my problem. It certanly has nothing to do with other usb/firewire devices.

The specs of my mac are:
Imac 2,8 Ghz Dual Inter Core with mac os 10.5.8
Anybody knows where to find software suitable with these specs?

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Post subject: Re: Cant connect amplifier with fender fuse on my mac
Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 2:57 pm
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Kroondiz, the fuse software compatible with OS X 10.5.8 does not exist. Your computer is certainly modern enough and deserves the upgrade to at least 10.6.8. In my experience Snow leopard is much better and more efficient than leopard. Lion (10.7.5) is stable but I think Mountain Lion (10.8.3) still has a few quirks. The upgrade process is relatively painless and fairly quick and I think this is a more productive use of your time than trying to find a non-existant version.

Is there some reason why you don't want to upgrade the computer?

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Post subject: Re: Cant connect amplifier with fender fuse on my mac
Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 11:38 pm
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I've not experienced this on my 8-core Mac Pro

I was just re-iterating earlier reports in this forum. Most people have no problems; a few found that disconnecting all other USB/firewire devices helped.

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It certainly has nothing to do with other usb/firewire devices

That's great, so we can eliminate that as a possible cause. Just for the benefit of others reading this thread in the future, how did you confirm other devices weren't the problem? Did you unplug them all, do you not have any other devices, or ...?


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Post subject: Re: Cant connect amplifier with fender fuse on my mac
Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 7:31 am
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scott-uk wrote:
Just for the benefit of others reading this thread in the future, how did you confirm other devices weren't the problem? Did you unplug them all, do you not have any other devices, or ...?


scott-uk, it sounds like the old "I couldn't figure it out myself, so I posted here asking for help, but now I'm going to argue with the people who are trying to help and not even try their suggestions" move. :wink: :lol:

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Post subject: Re: Cant connect amplifier with fender fuse on my mac
Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 10:19 am
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After an upgrade to os 10.6 fuse had connection with my amp. So the problem is solved!
Still I dont think you should force people to upgrade their software.

Thnx Orcatraz and Scott-uk. I appreciate your help!


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Post subject: Re: Cant connect amplifier with fender fuse on my mac
Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 9:16 am
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Kroondiz, I don't think they're forcing anyone to upgrade their software, it's just that when Fender developed Fuse, the current operating system was 10.6 and it can get more costly to make the software backward compatible. Remember, the software's free.

Besides that there are lots of advantages to using 10.6 over 10.5. Dumping all the legacy PowerPC code is one. You're using an Intel powered iMac so why would you want all that uselees PowerPC code gumming up the works?

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