Focusrite Saphire 14. Can't select correct input

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Re: Focusrite Saphire 14. Can't select correct input

Post by Pobinr » Fri May 26, 2017 3:36 pm

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Well I did offer a £100. For all I know that's all the time it might take a clever developer.

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Re: Focusrite Saphire 14. Can't select correct input

Post by Gale Andrews » Sat May 27, 2017 1:59 pm

Pobinr wrote:Well I did offer a £100. For all I know that's all the time it might take a clever developer.
Your assumption is incorrect.


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Re: Focusrite Saphire 14. Can't select correct input

Post by Pobinr » Sat Jul 07, 2018 12:09 pm

Hi any fix for this yet ?

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Re: Focusrite Saphire 14. Can't select correct input

Post by steve » Sat Jul 07, 2018 12:26 pm

Audacity uses PortAudio to access the computer sound system. PortAudio doesn't provide a platform-independent way to select arbitrary channels. You can only specify a certain number of channels N, which means that the channels 1 to N are used. As far as I'm aware, PortAudio only supports selecting arbitrary channels for ASIO. As Audacity cannot be distributed with ASIO support (due to licensing restrictions), there is little incentive for the Audacity developers to pursue this until PortAudio supports selecting arbitrary channels for native audio APIs on each platform.
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Re: Focusrite Saphire 14. Can't select correct input

Post by steve » Sat Jul 07, 2018 12:41 pm

On Linux, channel mapping can be achieved using Jack Audio System and one of the Jack patching utilities (such as Patchage). Jack Audio System is also available for macOS, though for Sierra or later it appears that the beta version of Jack2 is required (some information here: https://github.com/jackaudio/jack2/issues/144)
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Re: Focusrite Saphire 14. Can't select correct input

Post by Pobinr » Sat Jul 07, 2018 3:11 pm

Thanks Steve. Quite technical isn't it. I use Mac so will have to stick with Logic pro.
Or use Audacity & delete tracks 1-4 every time. I much prefer Audacity. The ergonomics are better than Logic pro. And it's quite sufficient for my needs.

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