Quits Whenever Change Audio Driver

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Quits Whenever Change Audio Driver

GarageBand was running perfectly until I installed another Mp3-editor/recording program that came free with a recording device I got. The software is called Audacity; it *****. Anyway, GarageBand wasn't booting up for a while and I got it to start working again. Now, whenever I try to switch the audio output from either built-in audio or the firewire audio interface to the soundsticks, it'll quit. This is a bummer because that's my keyboard setup. I need it to work. All of the sudden it's acting like a PC program.

PowerMac G5 - Dual 2GHz, Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Posted on Dec 2, 2005 11:06 AM

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Answer 1

Dec 2, 2005 11:14 AM in response to Sullie Pepperstein

By the way, I forgot to mention that I deleted and reinstalled GarageBand (and updated to 2.0.2), and deleted the program the I suspected had caused the problems, defragged my hard drive. Of course I've restarted it many times throughout the course of those processes, and the program will still crash when I attempt changing the driver to Soundsticks.

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Answer 2

HangTime

Level 9

53,841 points

Dec 2, 2005 11:19 AM in response to Sullie Pepperstein

Just a couple of quick thoughts: Have you tried repairing permissions? Have you deleted GB's .plist (preferences) file?

--HangTime [Will Compute for Food] B-|>

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Answer 3

Dec 2, 2005 4:56 PM in response to HangTime

Have you gone to the manufacturer's web site of your audio hardware, and downloaded and installed the latest drivers compatible with your version of Mac OS X?

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Answer 4

Kurt Weber

Level 6

13,969 points

Dec 3, 2005 6:54 AM in response to Sullie Pepperstein

Audacity has the capability to record in 24 bit. Garageband does not. Make sure in the Audio/Midi setup utility that the 16bit sound is selected.

You could also delete the AudioMIdi prefs to set the system back to its default values.

I did not have good luck with Audacity either. It suddenly quit often, leaving me stranded in mid-session.

Kurt

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