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JessicaG
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by JessicaG » Sun Oct 28, 2007 5:06 am
Hi, great program!
The problem I'm having is I can't seem to get quad recording to work, I'm stuck in stereo mode.
If somebody has successfully recorded 4 channels from a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz soundcard under XP please let me know what your various settings are. 4 channels are captured fine in Sound Forge so I'm pretty sure everything is connected properly and my drivers are ok.
Help!
Thanks
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alatham
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by alatham » Mon Oct 29, 2007 3:04 pm
The problem is that the Turtle Beach drivers present the card as more than one "device" when they talk to Windows. Audacity does not currently support using multiple devices at once. The way the Turtle Beach drivers are written, I think you'll only be able to access either the regular Line In, or the Versa-Jack, but not both at the same time (with Audacity).
Currently, in order for a multi-channel input to work, the drivers have to be written so they present all the input channels as one "device."
I used to use a Santa Cruz card myself, I ran into the same problem about 3 years ago.
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JessicaG
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by JessicaG » Tue Oct 30, 2007 11:38 am
alatham wrote:Currently, in order for a multi-channel input to work, the drivers have to be written so they present all the input channels as one "device."
I used to use a Santa Cruz card myself, I ran into the same problem about 3 years ago.
Thanks so much! That is what I'm seeing but I thought I was doing it wrong. So what did you end up doing to get around the problem? A different soundcard? Different software?
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alatham
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by alatham » Tue Oct 30, 2007 1:54 pm
At the time, I didn't have a use for more inputs, so I didn't worry about it. But I did eventually upgrade my sound card to a much nicer one (an M-Audio Delta 1010LT).
With that card, I can record up to 8 mono tracks at the same time. So far I've only ever used 6 at once, but recording 8 does indeed work (I've tested it).
The M-Audio card also has much higher sound quality, but it certainly isn't as cheap as the Santa Cruz.
Someday I hope that Audacity will support multiple devices (there's no reason it can't, as you're aware), but until then you either need new hardware or you need to convince Turtle Beach to write new drivers for the Santa Cruz (but that card has been out of production for 2 or 3 years, I highly doubt this will happen).
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JessicaG
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by JessicaG » Tue Oct 30, 2007 5:16 pm
Thanks again. Yeah M-Audio is a bit out of my price range
, but maybe someday.
I'm bummed. I love Audacity, it's got exactly what I need without all the other extra fluff that Sound Forge and others seem to have piled on. I just wish it could take full advantage of my soundcard.
