M-Audio won't work on Mac

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M-Audio won't work on Mac

Post by trickshot » Fri Apr 17, 2009 4:01 am

Hi, I just installed Audacity for Mac, and am using a M-Audio box for recording.
It hooks up to the computer via USB cable, and I have went to the Mac preferences
and it shows up well, with the sound coming in.
Unfortunately, I can't record anything to Audacity.
Does it not accept USB line in?

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Re: M-Audio won't work on Mac

Post by kozikowski » Fri Apr 17, 2009 5:05 am

It does. But sometimes it's a little wacky to get it going. Check out Go > Utilities > Audio MIDI Setup. Then dig around inside Audacity Preferences. As a starting point, set everything in sight to 44100, 16-bit, Stereo. Audacity 1.2 defaults to 44100, 32-bit, Mono and won't connect to much of anything.

Here's what happened when I got my USB microphone to work. YMMV.

USB Microphone
http://kozco.com/tech/audacity/USB_Microphone.html

Koz

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Re: M-Audio won't work on Mac

Post by kozikowski » Fri Apr 17, 2009 5:12 am

Please don't double post. If nobody posted back to you on the other message, please delete it.

Thanx,

Koz

[Edit] Already deleted the duplicate post. stf. [/EDIT]

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