Aggregat audio device with MBox

I'm trying to create an aggregate audio device with several output sources. Built-in-Audio works with DIGI9636, but I cannot seem to be able to get the MBox running with it. In the Aggregate Audio Device editor window MBox option doesn't even come up. Any solutions?

Dear jakezzzz,
The only thing I can think of, not having your exact set up is that the word clock for both devices needs to match, and if you are using GB, it needs to be a sample rate of 44.1KHz.
I have an my16 mLAN card for a Yamaha 01v96 and it is the master word clock that all else syncs too at 48K and it works in GB, but the minute I attempt to add a device to create an aggregate mixer, those devices will not work for some reason.
I have used an RME Mammerfall DIGI9636 in my DMM G4. I really liked that unit. I was using it with Digital Performer 4.61.
Now that I have an intel machine and GB has most of what I need to do easy recordings, I am not using the RME card any longer.
Let me know what you find!
Regards,

Similar Messages

Aggregate Audio Devices Don't Work

Hi,
I'm trying to create an aggregate audio device from my Macbook's on-board audio devices. The device does not appear in any application, including sound preferences, AU lab, and Jackpilot.

I, too, am having this problem with two MOTU firewire devices (828mkII and Traveler). The article referred to simply walks one through the steps to create an aggregate device in the Audio MIDI Setup. I have done this, but the aggregate device still does not appear in the Sound pane of System Preferences OR Logic Pro. If I close the Audio MIDI Setup application and restart it, the aggregate device is gone!
This is more than just a "how to set up an aggregate device" problem. Any ideas about what's happening or how to fix it? I've tried re-installing drivers, resetting devices to factory defaults, rebooting, etc. Nothing seems to help. I'm about ready to wipe out my hard drive and install everything from scratch…

Aggregate Audio Device- half-way works

Greetings. I'm trying to record multiple audio channels through multiple devices using 'aggregate audio device' feature in the Audio Midi setup.
the devices are a MOTU (mark of the unicorn) 896/MOTU896HD daisychained via firewire and going into a powerbook via firewire. Recording software is likely to be Raven (cornell lab of ornithology nature sound recording software).
I can create an aggregated device that says 38 input/40 output channels (the MOTU's can send and receive different formats) in the Aggregate Audio device editor, and these channels show up on the
We want to record in 16 channels- however, in the Audio Midi Setup menu, under Audio input, the aggregated device still only has a max of 8 channels (one MOTU's worth) in the pull-down format menu. Raven sets up recording by looking at the Audio MIDI setup, so only opens 8 channels for recording. What am I missing? Is there some way to get the audio input format to have an option for 16 channels?
Thanks for any help you can provide. Happy Holidays
Alan

An update- Raven now sees two separate streams from the aggregated device, although one is only 2 channels (instead of 8), which makes me think both streams are from the same unit but one a 2 channel master or something like that... (i'll test this with the mics soon).
Any advice on using Audio Midi Setup, as well as how to configure audio devices in the firewire console would be greatly appreciated... I am expecting to be able to chose from the pull-down format menu 16 channels (8+8)- but so far haven't been able to do this.
Thanks, and happy holidays
Powerbook g4 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

FMLE 3.2 and 3.1 can't detect an audio device with Windows 8.1

FMLE 3.2 and 3.1 can't detect an audio device with Windows 8.1 x64 on an MSI GT72-2QD laptop. I tried 2 different webcams but the result was the same. Both the internal mic and the ones going with the webcams work fine with other software but when I try FMLE it looks as follows:
It says that there's no audio device connected (although the mics work fine elsewhere), the dropout is blank and the audio parameters are grayed out and inactive even with the "audio" box checked. Both versions of FMLE work fine with the same cams on a desktop which has all the same tech specs but uses Win 7 x64. Running FMLE in Win7 compatibility mode or reinstalling with register cleaning doesn't help. What can be done about it?

Hi Bob,
Thanks for the advice. It succeeded.
The steps I made was to make a disk copy of my original Windows XP disk using Disk Utilty. Then I renamed the disk copy into .iso. I copied the ISO file to my usb flash drive.
Than I started Parallels 7, created a new VM, selected the correct drive to install from (the usb flash drive) and volia, it worked.
Finally...
Sytze

Is there a way to use aggregate audio devices in W7 64bit?

Recently Avid Audio released Pro Tools 9. This version of their software is no longer tied to their hardware. Mac users are now able to use more than one audio interface for audio i/o, increasing the number of channels to simultaneously record from. Is there
any way in W7 Home Premium to create an audio profile that combines different interfaces?
For example, I connect a USB audio device (MBox 2) and a firewire device (M-Audio ProFire 2626). Can I have both recording into Pro Tools at the same time?

Just saw this old Post and had to respond, better late than never and MS Still has not given us musicians the love we need with regard to low latency Audio Processing.
Yes it can be done but it's very Hardware Dependent. Both your Devices need to be WDM driver compliant. This is not as fast native ASIO driver w/ regard to latency. There are also limitations like Word Clock timing and no direct monitoring
but depending on what you are looking to do, it may work for you. You could use this for instance to connect a Roland TR-8 (10 Channels out) and Roland TB-3 (2 Channels) and System-1 also 2 Channels out (yeah I'm Roland fan) via USB for
a total of 14 Output channels @96KHz to the DAW.
1. Install all additional audio interface Drivers
2. Install ASIO4all
3. Set ASIO4all as your default driver in your DAW software.
4. Open the ASIO4all control panel and click on the wrench.
5. Enable all desired WDM devices.
6. Device should appear I/O setup of your DAW
Set Word clock to External- (you may also need to reset you Devices driver to "Legacy Mode"

IMac + remote Bluetooth speakers: How to aggregate audio devices?

I have one of those iPod slot on top speakers in a box systems.
I bought a “wireless Bluetooth music receiver” (looks like a chunk of licorace) that plugs into the iPod slot so I could transmit A2DP V1.2 audio to that speaker box from the iMac.
It works and I can transmit audio to that reciever and hear music from my iMac via iTunes and Pandora on the web.
But I want sound to come from both the built in iMac speakers and the external speaker box at the same time (kind of like having close by remote wireless speakers).
Using Audio MIDI Setup in Utilities, I created an Aggregate device so that I might play music through the iMac speakers and the Bluetooth speaker box at the same time.
(For those unfamiliar with Aggregate devices, please read here for quick intro. Note that when you search aggregate devices, many of the answers/links show a previous version. I think pre Leopard or Snow Leopard/Lion version. In current Snow Leopard/Lion version, you add by clicking the plus sign.)
No matter how I have the Aggregate device settings configured, it will only play to one or the other devices.
Is this a hopeless cause or, is there a trick to get sound out of my iMac speakers and the remote speakers with the Bluetooth reciever in the iPod slot at the same time?
I sound like an audio pro but I am not. Indeed, I still can't find an explanation anywhere on how to know your best Clock Source, what a clock source is, what a resample is, why it is needed, and while I have matched device formats at 48000 Hz and 44000 Hz, the 2ch-32 and other bit numbers never match and, does that matter?

So far, investigating it on my own, I think the problem is with the Snow Leopard version of Audio MIDI Setup. (If an Apple or audio expert could confirm here, that would be good.)
The Lion version of AMS does seem to permit this. From the Apple site: "Audio MIDI Setup works with audio and MIDI devices connected to your Mac using FireWire, USB, Bluetooth, PCMCIA, and PCI."
So the answer for Snow Leopard users may have to be some kind of third party software.
The nice people at Rogue Amoeba gave me an idea (to try) to use Audio Hijack Pro to hijack the audio and send it to the Bluetooth using the Auxiliary Device Output plugin under Effects. But it did not work.
Any further thoughts would be appreciated.

2 internal audio devices with X-Fi Plati

I had Audigy 2 ZS and 2 device hooked up to it (DVDROM and a TV card). Just picked up a X-FI Platinum and it only has one internal connector. Big issue. Am I missing something. What is CL thinking here.
Michael

can_hemlock wrote:
I had Audigy 2 ZS and 2 device hooked up to it (DVDROM and a TV card). Just picked up a X-FI Platinum and it only has one internal connector. Big issue. Am I missing something. What is CL thinking here. Michael
Does present CD/DVD-ROM dri'ves need a cable anymore?
jutapa

Aggregate Audio bug in Tiger?

I tried to create an Aggregate Audio device using Tiger's Audio MIDI Setup under /Utilities
I wish to use the aggregate device to broadcast iTunes music through my desk speakers and my Griffin RocketFM fm transmitter to my living room stereo speakers.
I've set up the Aggregate device with multi-channel, Quadraphonic sound. I can even verify that each channel (left speaker living room, right speaker living room, left speaker desk, and right speaker desk) will receive sound by clicking on the speaker icons in the Audio MIDI Setup application.
But when I select the Default Output device to be this new aggregate, only my desk speakers produce sound.
What is going on here? Why can't my RocketFM send sound to my living room speakers via the aggregate device, but it can if I send sound to just the RocketFM? Has anyone else had this problem in 10.4.3? I just bought Tiger, more or less for this functionality (everything else was gravy to me) and it doesn't work as I'd hoped. Any help?

Ok David
I don't pretend to be an expert here but this is what I've found out from my limited experments.
1. There is no "10 channel limit" I was able to use the 410 and a USB audio device to get 12 channels of output.
2. I don't think the system was designed to do what you want.. send the same signal to more than one output at the time.
3. I think the system was designed to aggregrate interfaces for multi channel use... 3 stereo interfaces for 5.1 surround.
Whatever decide you added FIRST to your aggregrate device is the one that gets a stereo output. So if you added your RocketFM to aggregrate device FIRST, it would get the signal, but not your 2nd interface.
If you had a 4 channel source, then all for speakers would work, but each would get only one of the four channels.
I'm guessing that the only speaker setup you were able to select was either stereo, or quad, since (and I'm guessing here), you only had 4 outputs to use. If you had only 4 outputs you couldn't select say, a 7.1 channel setup since you don't have 8 channels of output.
Notice on the speaker set up that you cannot send any channel number to more than one locaton.
Channel 1 and 2 = the main stereo channels.
iTunes is stereo, not multi channel, so the L/R output of iTunes corrosponds to channel 1 and 2 on the speaker set up.
Now, I agree it seems like you SHOULD be able to set it up like you want.... seems like an easy thing to implement, but from what I can see, either there is a bug as you've suggested, or it was not designed to operate that way in the first place.
One other note, adding the interlan audio interface didn't give me any more outputs for some strange reason..
Using the 410 and the internal outputs only gave me 10 outputs
Using the USB audio device and the internal outputs only gave me 2 outputs
but using the USB and the 410 gave me 12... go figure.
Under no circumstances could I get my Pro-Tools Mbox to show up in the aggregrate editor, tho it does show up in the sound pref pane.

Could not find supported audio device in AA3

okay so i know its not a good idea to use AA3 with Vista...but other people are doing it so why can't I? I've seen the topic posted before but the threads are pretty much dead and I still have no helpful info. I've scoured this thing with no affective solution. I've installed AA3 on several systems in the past and never had this much trouble--if any. This problem has gone on for over 2 months now!
Since I installed AA3 on my new computer all i can get and all i have ever gotten is the "AA could not find a supported audio device. Please check device settings" dialog--
press okay (or x) and Audition closes---never getting past the loading window --during "initalizing required components"
I have 3 audio devices/ with up to date drivers which all my other audio programs recognize (Audition 1.5, Sonor, Cubase + more) with no problem whatsoever--
AA3
Windows Vista SP1 64 bit
Realtek HD Audio
+ Presonus FP10 digital firewire interface/preamp (kind of unrelated but aa3 still wont recognize it either apparently)
I have installed all updates including the 64-bit SP1 fix for AA3.
I've read the Realtek HD issue solutions and made sure my drivers are fine.
IM DESPERATE----PLEASE!!!
I'm having a recording studio built right now & AA3 is my main DAW so this is rather dire.---All the other DAW's i've tried suck compared to AA3 (with the exception of stability). hehe AA3 is always crashing on me and yet i still prefer it over other DAW's.

I put the PreSonus StudiLive 16.4.2 plus Adobe Audition 3 setup instructions into a short write-up on my blog: Live Event Multitrack Audio Capture
Here is a photo showing how to set up the Firewire channels for input and output
I hope this helps:
Ron Fredericks
LectureMaker, LLC

No Digital Output available in Playback devices (USB audio device)

If one has USB audio device with coax/toslink out, with proper drivers (like ie TurtleBeach Micro Advantage) available & installed then Digital Output is available to select in Playback devices. (and one can play AC3/DTS to external amplifier with ie
VLC or MPC-HT with AC3Filter DS filter)
But some USB devices (ie Phonic Digitrack -
http://www.phonic.com/en/digitrack.html ) do NOT come with drivers (as Windows has default build in). Digitrack uses TI
Burr-Brown USB Audio Codec 2906 -
http://www.ti.com/product/pcm2906
Sadly these Windows drivers do NOT have a clue about what the device actually has as inputs/outputs
So even it had coax digital out & the sound IS send via it, the actual data send is in right way, not recognized/played correctly by Digital Amplifier (AC3/DTS)
Does anybody know of a hack to make Digital Out available?
Seb

Hi,
Generally speaking, An Audio Device do need more driver besides USB driver to make itself work properly. In terms of your situation, USB driver is not enough to make your Audio Device works properly. I think S.Sengupta
is right. Actually it would be better to contact Digitrack support to confirm its product compatibility with Windows 7.
Roger Lu
TechNet Community Support

I can't create new virtual audio device

Dear All,
I've two audio devices and I would create a virtual audio device with the input channels of both of them. I'v read that it's very simple. But when I click on the "+" button in the "Audio/Midi Configuration" application I'm not able to create a new virtual device. Both of real devices work perfectly.
My account is a system administrator.
Help me, please!

Great! It was hard, but now all work fine!
I removed these two files:
"Macintosh HD/Library/Preferences/com.apple.audio.AggregateDevices.plist"
"Macintosh HD/Users/YourUserName/Library/ Preferences/com.apple.audio.AudioMIDISetup.plist"
... the truth lies in small things!

Audigy recognized as "multimedia audio device

System specs:
Msi k8t800 Neo-fsi2r
amd 64 3k+
nv 6800oc
gig ocz 3200
I also have a 3com nic card which is tested working fine
and... my soundblaster audigy gamer.
The card worked fine before, my mother board went sour so I bought another and now the card will not install. Windows detects it as a multimedia audio device with no other specific label. Windows also does not install the drivers, when I attempt to install automatically it does not find any compatible drivers.. I have attemped the drivers from the site. My card is retail. Does the ac97 onboard 5. conflict with these cards somehow? I would just use that but its garbage and doesn't work even half way. I have also tried other pci slots, nothing..
Note: When I got my new motherboard the nvram was not detecting, still isn't. May just be the battery but would this cause any problems with my card not being recognized?...
Enfurno

I have the same problem.
K8N Neo Platinum
Athlon64 3000+
52 Kingston DDR400
Soundblaster Audigy Platinum eX
I have disabled the AC97 Onboard Audio in the BIOS. I have tried all the remaining PCI slots on my MB. I keep getting the generic "multimedia audio device" and "PCI input device" notifications when I reboot. I have tried completely uninstalling all audio drivers.
When I try to install SBA2_EAX4DRV_0303 I get the following message:
"Setup could not detect any Sound Blaster Audigy 2 on your system.
Please ensure that your Sound Blaster hardware is properly
installed before running this Setup program.
Setup will now exit."
Could there be a problem with the onboard ID on the audio card itself? Is there any way to test for and/or remedy this?
Thanks in advance for any help... I've been messing with this for too long with no answers
-long time Creative customer losing faith.

Aggregate device: BIG PROBLEM with mbox(digidesign)

i must admit, meanwhile i am truly desperate...
MAYBE ONE OF YOU HAS THE SAME EXPERIENCE AND HENCE A SOLUTION TO IT... problem is as follows:
i have a mbox1 connected via usb to my ibook g4 1.33ghz (ppc) and want to make an aggegate device in the osx 10.4.9 system preferences (audio-midi-setup) together with the built-in audio in order to be able to use 4 audio outs simultaneously within NI traktor dj studio 3 so that i'd have 2 channels for master out and the other ones for monitor.
but: when trying to make the aggregate device, mac os only shows up the built-in audio. the digidesign mbox seems to be vanished, although i can use and choose it seperately as my main out. but not in the latter mentioned dialogue. so what the heck is wrong? btw, i have coreaudio 7.3 installed properly (the one that fits for ppc-macs)...
- is it maybe because of clocking issues?
- built-in is on 16bit only, the mbox is on 32bit... what about this?
- is the mbox1 (folks, i just purchased it 5 years ago) not working with newer systems anymore in full effect?
- is it the coreaudio-driver itself (although it is visible/selectable in audio preferences)?
PLEASE HELP! I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO NOW ANYMORE...
sincerely yours
00piano

any suggestions out there?
plz help!

Help with Audio Device Playback

Hoping someone out there can help. Before I updated to iTunes 7, I played back all of my iTunes music through some studio monitors connected to a Digidesign Mbox audio interface. Since upgrading, I cannot get clean audio using this device. When I select "Digidesign Mbox: Chan 1-2" as the default sound playback device in my QuckTime preferences, playing a song in iTunes gives me a garbled sound--almost sounds like a CD that's skipping. Can anybody help with a solution? I hate having to listen to my tunes through two tiny cheap computer speakers!
Thanks in advance,
Mike

I have the same problem. I get the garbled "Skipping" sound when I use the new version of iTunes. The only way I have to get around it is an old version of iTunes 6 I have saved - it has the same version of Quick Time Attached that was good (then) and should work with the WaveDriver. I have an MBOX 2 and it sounds GREAT.
It really is bad that Apple has this "New, Great" iTunes but it won't work with the existing hardware. I can go from my Sound Card out to my Monitors, but the sound quality is bad. And it is so much easier to just use the MBOX volume adjuster - it is very handy.
Apple, please fix this problem. I want to download DRM free music but iTunes 7.2 does not work with MBOX 2.
AlienWare Area 51 Windows XP 4gb RAM, nVidia 6200TC, SoundBlaster Audigy, MBOX 2

Trouble with audio i/o with Mbox...

This may actually be a system-wide issue, not a Logic Pro issue, but it only affects me vis-a-vis Logic, so here we go...
I'm trying to use the (original) MBox as an Core Audio interface with Logic Studio. I installed the Core Audio drivers and the Mbox shows up in the drop-down menu of devices in both the Sound Control Panel in my System Prefs and in the Audio Preferences in Logic Studio. But there's no actual audio i/o happening. Having selected it as the device in prefs, and trying to playback output through the Mbox -- or record input through it, there's just nothing happening. Silence, and no response on the meters to input. Other audio interfaces work (i.e. a USB mic/headset; built-in mic and speakers, etc). The internal soundcard on the Mbox seems to be fine, as I can hear the input from the mic running into the Mbox in the headphones I have connected to the device.
I quit Logic and rebooted the Mbox. When I relaunched Logic, and the Digi CoreAudio Manager opened, I started getting a sort of morse code type of sound through my cans. Not feedback, more like digital beeps and such. But in any event still no input/output connecting with the Mac.
Two things to add to the mix: (1) while the device is visible in the System Prefs Sound Control Panel, it doesn't register any input or output on its little built in meters, either -- which makes me think this is s system-wide issue, not a Logic issue; (2) the first time (and only the first time) I selected the Mbox as the Core Audio device in the Logic Prefs, the meters in Logic Pro appeared to indicate there was a feedback loop (peaking on inputs and outputs), though there was no actual sound. I switched off the 48V button on the MBox which killed that problem, but since then, it won't register anything at all.
Any ideas? Thanks!

Digidesign Hardware/drivers are not yet compatible with Leopard. There are thousand of threads about this whenn you do the Google search.
http://duc.digidesign.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=1247756&Main=1247729

Aggregat audio device with MBox

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for