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Andy Parnell
Dec 17th, 2005, 04:27 AM
I'm having trouble trying to record 'live' into Soundtrack Pro. I've got a mic into analog mixer into M-Audio Firewire Solo audio interface into ibook set up.

In STP, I can select firewire channels 1 to 2 for the input device but nothing is recording when I hit the record button. the mic>mixer bit is working fine. I'm quite certain the mixer>audio bit is working so I think its a problem with compatibility between the M-Audio Firewire Solo device and Soundtrack Pro software....although it shows up as an option in the select audio input/output settings in STP...

Currently, I've been recording individual tracks into Audacity then exporting them all as separate tracks into Soundtrack Pro for post production as AIFF files (drag and drop them into STP in the order I require). I'm doing this as a temporary measure until I can find out how to get M-Audio Firewire Solo talking to Soundtrack Pro.

Anyone got any ideas?

Andy
tabulator32
Dec 17th, 2005, 08:29 AM
I use an M-Audio Firewire Solo into my Emac and had a little issue recording until I looked into my computer's System Preferences to designate the mic input the computer was using. It had defaulted to the internal mic instead of the AKG Perception 100 I had just bought and set up.

'Hope that helps.
Andy Parnell
Dec 19th, 2005, 12:54 PM
Well, I got it working with Soundtrack Pro and Audio Hijack Pro in the end. It seems that only the front side of M-Audio FireWire Solo recording interface actually seems to work and only the right channel (mono). Its a little bit annoying but it works...not sure why the back ones did not work (s/pdif, balanced and unbalanced phone jacks plugs), perhaps its something to do with the fact that the front has gain level knobs and the back doesn't....hmm...maybe not enough power to drive the back cords?

Anyway, if any of you happen to use M-Audio FireWire audio interfaces (analog to digital converter) and you face a similar problem, then its probably going to be a similar thing...

Let me know if you're a Mac user and have any such product?

Andy