[PodcastMN] Alesis Firewire

[Paul Cantrell]

Ah, so the problem is getting audio program to route their audio out  
to the mixer board, then back in?

P


On Sep 5, 2007, at 9:55 AM, Steve Borsch wrote:

>
> 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.
>
> -- 
> 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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>> Email: Steve at iConnectDots.com
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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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