[PodcastMN] Alesis Firewire

[Steve Borsch]

Paul -- Your Firepod (and my MBox2) isn't the issue...it's the mixer board
Firewire that's the problem. I don't know all the technical reasons, but
it's the way that these board interfaces use "channels" off the board itself
so there can be board-level mixing that occurs.

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Steve Borsch
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On 9/5/07, Paul Cantrell <cantrell at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> I don't know what you mean by not getting "system-level, Core Audio to be
> recognized by *any* app on the Mac," since that's basically what happens — I
> can play iTunes through my Firepod, for example. Basically applications use
> core audio for *all* audio, large and small. (The only notable exception
> I've seen is Skype, which doesn't like firewire input for some mysterious
> reason.)
>
> Logic is definitely complex and unwieldy, but it does work with Core Audio
> ... and only Core Audio. I don't doubt you had problems, but it sounds like
> they were more subtle than just getting apps to recognize CA.
>
> Cheers, P
>
>
> On Sep 4, 2007, at 1:18 PM, Steve Borsch wrote:
>
> Brian,
>
> When I did this post (
> http://www.iconnectdots.com/ctd/2007/08/ctd-for-august-.html) it was after
> wrestling with a bunch of new gear...including the Alesis Multimix8
> Firewire. The software that accepts channels like you describe are Logic,
> Pro Tools and ones that allow multi-channel setup.
>
> There are also ways to use Soundflower (
> http://www.cycling74.com/products/soundflower) to route the Mac's Core
> Audio to various applications...but this was just too much effort to figure
> out since all I wanted was system-level, Core Audio to be recognized by
> *any* app on the Mac. That's why I ended up buying the MBox2 (which comes
> with Pro Tools).
>
> I was unable to get Firewire/CoreAudio to be "seen" from the Alesis or the
> Mackie 1620 which I replaced it with (and ultimately returned). Maybe others
> know more.
>
> --
> Steve Borsch
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>
> On 9/4/07, brian at digitalbob.com <brian at digitalbob.com> wrote:
> >
> > I've got one one of the boards that will send 4 individual channels via
> > firewire. What mac software will receive that? (it's a mac question, so I
> > know the group will go easy on me... ;)
> >
> > -Brian
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