Getting Audacity to work with Lexicon Omega

[gnair]

Hi and what a fabulous piece of software Audacity it is ... to all who have helped make it a reality, thanks!

I recently bought a Lexicon Omega to replace the sound module on my Intel motherboard. However, I cannot get the Omega output into Audacity.

I've set the preferences under Audacity I/O to the Omega 1-2 in out. However, when I look at the choice of input window on the Audacity main page, there is nothing listed. (I've also gone into the Control Panel Sound and Audio devices and made sure that the Omega is chosen there as well.)

Now, I know the CPU is getting the proper output signals from Omega ... I can record the signal with the little Windows XP sound recorder and can also see Omega's input in my spectrograph program ... so I know the signals are there. I just cannot get Audacity to connect to them.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

GNair

[alatham]

That thing has support for both WDM and ASIO modes. Audacity will not be able to access it if it's set to use ASIO drivers, this is Steinburg's fault (there are legal issues involved).

In the driver software for your Omega you should be able to set it to WDM mode. That should work.

If you really want to use ASIO mode, you can re-compile Audacity yourself with support for it. Be aware that you can't legally distribute this version of Audacity (but it's legal if you compile it yourself, go figure).

If you want to re-compile Audacity:
http://audacityteam.org/wiki/index.php? ... _Interface

[gnair]

Thank you so much for your reply.

I’m afraid that the problem is deeper than that actually. I’ve done the following:

1. Uninstalled both the Primary and Secondary channels to have them re-installed. Now, instead of PIO mode, they are DMA. Device 0 = DMA mode 5 and device 1 = DMA mode 4.

2. Made sure that I have:
===t he latest drivers from Lexicon (the makers of Omega). The proper ones appear in the device manager under the sound devices.

=== the Omega software running in the DMA mode.

=== checked that Audacity has the Edit/Preferences set for audio to the Omega 1/2 I/O (I left the voice side as the original motherboard sound module because I have to use that for my voice recognition headset … it needs the 5 volt bias supplied by the average computer sound card in order to get sufficient volume in its output).

Having done all this, there is still no signal appearing when I click on the vu meters in Audacity. Again, I am sure that the Omega output is reaching the CPU ― I can record in the little Windows XP sound recorder and get data from my spectrographic program ― but Audacity cannot hear that output.

Any suggestions?

Garyth

[awesam55]

Hi I know that this is an old post but I have found a solution, which took me about 5 hours of stuffing around. So I thought I would share it as it could be helpful for people.

The first trick is to download and install the most up to date driver for the Lexicon Omega from their website.

I quickly worked out that Audacity wouldn't be able to record four channels simultaneously, so I found another free program called Kristal.

So now I am recording four tracks through Kristal and then importing and editing them in Audacity. Once I have recorded in Kristal I choose "save to a new folder". Click the expand compressed files to wav. I have made a new folder for each recording as the media files are then saved in a subfolder named "media". To import to Audacity open one of the wavs in Audacity, and then import the rest by choosing project> import audio. And there you have it.

If anyone has questions on this feel free to drop me a line.

Cheers