M_audio Firewire 1814 on MacPro

Is there a work around using 1814 on MacPro?
I called M-Audio and they are coming out with a patch in a couple of weeks but I have a project to be done and I am stuck at the moment.
I can use my PBg4 for now but I locks up after using 2 Audio tracks at 5mins; any thoughts?
Thanks

use your macpro as a node. you only need to make sure that the right node version is installed, and you could farm off almost everything to the macpro to process.

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