Tone Board + Mac OS X Catalina 10.15

tsangyoujun · October 28, 2019, 10:54am

After upgrading to Catalina (10.15), the Tone Board is no longer detected in System Preferences. Tested on a Mac Mini 2014, and Macbook 2018.

So if you’re using a Mac it is not recommended to upgrade - just yet!

That said, I did find a nice free application for DSD playback - Pine Player.

tsangyoujun · November 26, 2019, 6:47am

Good news everyone, after applying the supplementary update to Catalina, it works again.

Irrenarzt · January 3, 2020, 4:19pm

I just upgraded to 10.15.2 and tone board is not recognized. Any hints on how to get it back?

tsangyoujun · January 4, 2020, 11:28am

Oddly my Mac hasn’t upgraded yet. I’ll need a few days to test this out.

Irrenarzt · January 4, 2020, 10:32pm

I exchanged my KTB with Amazon and the new one works under 10.15.2. Strange, but I will accept that. At least I have a working unit now.

jgalt91 · January 5, 2020, 1:46am

Note that nobody doing audio stuff with their mac should upgrade to Catalina yet, it seems to be giving lots of troubles to musicians and plugin developers.

tsangyoujun · January 6, 2020, 2:57am

Tone Board confirmed working on Mac OS X Catalina 10.15.2, and I’m using the old black and grey cable too (which others have complained about). Oddly, I did receive a “change your audio device from 16 to 32 bits for playback” warning when I opened Pine Player (I did not see that before).