I am new to GB and this discussion page. I have just bought an M-Audio Solo and have everything working correctly -- I think. In preference / sound have both input and output as M - Audio. I have plugged in my guitar and headphones into the interface and can hear the guitar. I can also see the sound signal in the output screen which suggests the sound is being picked up by the mac. GB however does not recognise the guitar, the monitor level is grey/disabled and is on 0 even when I click monitor "on". GB will not record the guitar signal. Am I missing something??
don't set the output to the m-audio, make sure you're recording into a real instrument track, select the red dot on the left of the instrument track, which assigns that track for recording. then you should be able to set the monitor should become ungrayed. hope that helps
I have posted a similar problem elsewhere in the GB discussions. I have been (unscuccessfully) trying to digitize my LPs, using a Stanton digital turntable to connect to an M-audio firewire solo, and from there running the firewire into my intel iMac running 10.5.2. Like moss888, I can see the green bars jumping around to the music on the LP, on both the m-audio control panel and the Mac's sound panel input. However, nothing comes out of the speakers, nor does it show in Garage band nor audacity. I downloaded a program called "Soundflower" which is supposed to bridge something in the mac re: sound. Didn't help. Of course, there are dozens of settings which I could have wrong. Very frustrating. Any help?
Thanks, all.
I got some good help from M-Audio, starting with their web help, then calling early in the am for live help.
First of all, I did not realize that the 'firewire solo' is a sound card connected by firewire to my mac, and the iMac can't deal with two different sound cards at the same time: the internal one and the external 'firewire solo' connected by firewire. Since I had my speakers connected to the headphone out jack on the iMac, that uses the internal sound card, whereas the sound in was coming from the 'fw solo'. My first solution was to record without hearing the music, then playback through the imac speakers after changing the audio output preference. The better solution required a quick trip to Guitar center to purchase 1/4" audio cable so that the 'fw solo' can connect directly to the speakers, keeping it all in the external sound card. OK so far. Of course, the support guy at M-Audio had to tell me to set the input and outputs on the m-audio preference panel to "Firewire Solo Multichannel", not "spdif", which I wouldn't have known. Also, which tiny boxes to check such as 1/2 and spdif in this box but not in that one. OK
Then, it stopped working for sound out. I recontacted m-audio, they opened a new 'ticket' for me, and told me that once in a while I may need to hit the reset button on the m-audio control panel, and I still need to switch from internal clock (when using sound from itunes, etc) to the external clock setting when using the Stanton digital turntable for input. They said it's a bug, and they are working on it! They are very helpful, but if I hadn't spoken to them, I would never have gotten it to work.
I would prefer importing into Amadeus pro instead of garage band, because of the built in track splitting for lps, and pop removals, exporting options etc (unless they also exist in GB) but where I can see the green bars (levels) bouncing appropriately in GB, the level is so low in Amadeus that I can't record it. I have an email into Amadeus.
