External audio issue

the connection to external speakers/headset no lomger works on my mac book pro, anyway to reset?

The headphone socket on MBP's has a micro-switch that switches the socket between it's two operating modes, namely analogue and digital. If you look into the headphone socket and you can see a red light then it is operating in digital mode. The micro-switch can sometimes get stuck in the 'on' position. If you see the red light then try inserting a headphone jack a few times to try and throw the switch. If that doesn't work then get a wooden cocktail stick or toothpick (something non-metallic!!!) and wiggle it around to try and throw the switch. If you see the red light go out then you're back to analogue mode and your headphones/ext speakers will work again.

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EXTERNAL AUDIO ISSUES

So i just bought a pair of audio monitors. I connected them in my m-audio solo but the sound does not come out. I already checked for updated drivers, selected the m-audio as audio unit, i did everything but nothing comes out from the speakers. The m-audio works fine, it receives the signal, I always record with it. Strange thing is that everything works fine on other MacBooks.
I have a 2010 white MacBook with Mavericks 10.9.5 installed

I have the same exact problem with the same symptoms you described (rush of sound...). I can also get the pent up sounds to rush out and get the iMic working again by unplugging it from my usb hub and then plugging it back in.
This all started with Leopard, and it used to work just fine with Tiger. Do you have your iMic plugged directly into your Macbook, or through a USB hub? Which hub do you have? I use a Belkin:
http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=158910
cheers!
s.

My Ipad 2 external speakers does not work and headphones has popping sound. This all occured at the same time as my Iphone and Ipod headphones only played mono (no, the "mono" option is not on). How can there be audio issue for all these devices?

My IPad 2 external speaker does not work and the original headphones have popping sound when used. This all occurred at the same time as my IPhone and IPod headphones only plays mono (and no, the "mono" option is not on) with the original headphones, as well as, other headphones tested. How can there be audio issue for all these devices at the same time?
As you may have noted from the list of Apple devices I own, I believed in the Apple and the products it was producing; but it is hard to believe from my experience and the other voices within the Apple Community that we are all experiencing the same hardware issues. Especially since I recently, I upgraded to an IPhone 4g (no, my faith in IPhone 5 series is very little) and is experiencing the same audio problem as described above. So now, I am off to the Apple store again to be told that it’s a hardware problem on new IPhone. Really? Apple, what happen to the pride in the product you were producing?

Everyone does things a little differently. I love to "jam " along with iTunes ( or old Lp's) . Always have. That's where/how I've learned to play .
I'm sure leonieDF is giving a proper way to jam along on a keyboard with an iTune. He blows my mind all the time with what he knows. Nuff respects to him !
What I do is make a GB project I call "Jam With". I'll make several new tracks that are blank. Just has a few instruments named in the blank tracks. You can change those per song ...
Because I'm not concerned about changing the pitch / key.... of the iTune or the tempo ... I can simply play along with it.
Peace,
P. Dreadie

Connecting external audio interfaces?! Issues, help needed!

Ok well basically i'v always used a pc to do music using cubase and a variety of hardware including a steinberg mi4 external audio interface connected via usb. Now on my pc which is actually less powerful than my new macbook (the 2.2ghz model) the interface works with out fault no latency, no distortion.
However once used on my new shiny macbook, for which i'v purchased logic pro as opposed to cubase (felt like a change) when trying to use my interface via usb on the mac through logic i seem to have issues with recording and all sound comes through distorted with a great deal of latency. I'v tried altering the sample depth and the bit rate and nothing seems to work?
I have downloaded mac specific drivers for the hardware so i'm sure its not a driver issue?
Anyone with any suggestion, cos i'm a bit gutted really?
P.s. Does anyone know if you can change the graphics card in a macbook?
Ben

Hi, im having the same issue, using garageband and logic pro. I used pc to make music with no problems at all with my Zoom g9.2tt guitar fx usb interface.
Now with mac i get distorted and lots of latency.
One way i found that can make this work with garageband is use the internal sound card to play sounds and the usb interface to record this helps a lot. This trick makes it for garageband but not for logic pro(still getting distortion/latency).
By the way i used to have an emachines laptop with 512 ram memory and a 1,6ghz semprom processor, believe or not, easier to record on that one, with no latency and no distortion.

Final Cut 7 audio sync issue with external audio

Ok, I've seached around a lot and still haven't found the solution for this common issue, which is sync between video and audio wich were recorded in two different devices.
My video is from a conference (a lady speaking all the time) ProRess 29.97 and my audio is wav recorded at 44.1 Khz. I have already converted my external audio to a fine AIFF 48 Khz, and I have already re-imported it with the correct 29.97 easy setup, as it shows on this video www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt-nfelM8KA. That helped a lot but audio still goes out on sync when playback goes further (not that much, but it shows).
On Premiere Pro, that wav file a correctly in sync, and I have had this issue before with FCP and now it has come back! help!
Anyone found a real solution for this issue?

Why not just use Premier? FCP is going to slowly die out anyways....
Anyhow, a work around... using the speed change tool (sss) adjust the audio to be the same length of the video so it is in sync... Press command-J, make note of the percentage you sped up your audio. Now open your audio in STP, select all of your audio go to Process>Timestretch and adjust the audio and apply the same percentage.
Listen to your audio. STP's time stretch is excellent because it adjusts the speed without changing the pitch.
Save as, re-import your audio.

Can I select an external audio source?

I have iMovie09 ver 8.0.6. I'm using a Panasonic video camera (it uses miniDV tapes) connected to my MacBook (white plastic 07) via firewire. When I have the cable from the mixer going into the camera and recording to tape; when I transfer the tape to MacBook, I get the external audio source great!!! However, when I plug the cable directly into the MacBook, it still gives me the audio (BUT) from the built-in mic of the camera. When I open GarabeBand and record the audio, its the external and its great. However, I don't want to have both recording at the same time only to overlay the GarageBand audio onto the video clip. Yes, I've selected the 'in-line' option from 'System Preferences'.
Is there a way that I can select the external source while in iMovie?? Looking at some other negative posts, I don't want to upgrade to iMovie 11 either.

I came across a much older post which I believe solved my issue. I connected everything up first, then booted up the MacBook; then I selected 'built-in audio' from the 'voice-over' option within iMovie. It recognized it right immediately. However, now I'm not sure that the audio is in fact coming from the 'hot' microphones that I'm receiving from the mixer. But that's just troubleshooting.

Static / Hiss Audio Issue

Lately , I have been facing an issue with my audio , ever since i moved to 10.8.1 , i have been getting static on all audio - Youtube , Itunes extra , i tried everything from formatting , downgrading to 10.7.4 to changing my headphones , Please help ?
I am a DJ/Producer so audio is like sacred to me . I have a Mac Book Pro 15 Inch I7 , upgraded to 16GB RAM , the Version before the Retina Display Version of MBP. I have also used an external audio interface , i am having the same issue but on a smaller scale.
Thank You all for your Support.

Are you using the old usb 1.1 multimix or the new 2.0?
Are you still using 10.5.2?

XDCAM audio issues in Premiere Pro CC

We run 4 New Mac Pro Towers at my shop with Adobe Creative Cloud, and we're editing on Premiere Pro CC. We were a Final Cut 7 shop until we were forced to choose between PP or FCX. I've recently been experiencing audio issues when ingesting XDCAM footage from my Sony EX3 Camera. While the video looks great when ingested into either XDCAM Browser, or when I drop the BPAV file into our external drive and bring it into PPCC, the audio becomes noisy and unusable.; while this same audio sounds excellent on all my other machines. I've uninstalled both the XDCAM Browser and Premiere software and reinstalled them, but have not had any luck so far. Meantime, none of my other machines are experiencing this issue. Any assistance would be much appreciated.
Thanks.

One way, assuming you are working in mono, pan A1 center and A2 right, this will give ambience to left and ambience and narration to right. If you are mixing and you don't want the ambience only track to change in level you will need to use subgroups but this will get more involved.

X120e audio issues

Greetings,
I have an x120e that I bought in August (8GB Ram upgade). I have been having some audio issues whilst doing some light audio editing in Audobe Audition (CS 5.5) and listening to music.
When my internal speakers are playing sound, it frequently occurs that the sound quality turns to crap. It sounds like the bitrate has fallen to the lowest possible setting. It sounds like it is only playing out of the right channel mainly, and is similiar to if my computer was inside of a metal bucket. I've tried updating the sound driver, but even after I downloaded it, and installed it, the driver date for the device is still old.
The music files I am playing back and editing are large and generally uncompressed. Could this have something to do with it?
Any help would be much appreciated as I am editing videos on this machine, and it is difficult to edit if the sound quality is poor.
Cheers,

Hi El_Capitan
1. How about playing the sound with an external speakers or headphone?
2. Go to Start, Control Panel, Sound, under Playback tab, double-click Speakers, go to Advanced, under Default Format, choose the highest, click Apply and OK. (Repeat the steps for Headphones and Microphone)
Does the following steps help?
Have a nice day!
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More Audio issues...

Along with the sounds / tones truncating / cutting off, I was listening to some mp3's today and the sound was constantly cutting in and out of stereo mode. Left ear worked most of the time, right ear worked maybe 1/4th of the time. Whatever happened to the sound coding in the latest update, it needs to be fixed.
Post relates to: Pre p100eww (Sprint)

I have searched in vain for an answer to this
problem. I have a 15" Powerbook Aluminum, 1.5 Ghz G4
w/ 1.25G RAM and 10 GB available on the harddrive.
I am working with iMovie 6 with all my movie files on
a LaCie external drive connected using a FW800
connection. 195GB capacity, with about 20GB being
used up with iMovie files.
Here's my issue. When I import video alone into a
project, we have joy. When I try to add audio clips
(either AIFF or MP3), the playback slows to a crawl,
the video is severely stuttery and the audio is
distorted and plays at about half speed (like playing
a 33rpm LP at 16rpm).
If I delete the video and import the audio clips,
same issue w/slowness and distortion.
If I import the audioc clips singly, they play and
sync well with the video to a point, but there's a
threshhold at which the playback begins to degrade
and the audio issues return.
Very frustrating. Who can point me to some likely
culprits? Of, and this began happening in iMovie 5. I
was hoping iMovie 6 would solve. no joy.
Thanks all - Joel
OK - here's an update. I dumped my caches, fixed permissions, made changes to QT settings and reset the MIDI settings and the result? The audio is now running fine BUT the video is now not running (or at least ex-treme-ly sl-ooooooow-ly).
Any thoughts folks? I'd be eager to hear your input!

Captivate Software Simulation Audio Issues

My Captive 8 software simulation slides have been having issues with the audio right after recording. Before I even publish anything, my audio will end up being 2-3 slides ahead of where it should be on the slides. As you may know, when recording a software simulation, captivate automatically generates the slides with each mouse click and should automatically insert the correct audio on each slide. This is not happening for me, and it is very time consuming to fix. I either have to re-record and hope it doesn’t happen again or do a lot of external audio editing.
It’s possible there may not be a resolution and it may be a recognized (or unrecognized) bug in Captivate. Just need to know whatever the case may be.
My initial gut reaction is to blame this on the latest Captivate 8 update… as I don’t remember experiencing this issue before. But then again, I also upgraded my mac to OS X and that may be a factor as well.
I've had people suggest to add a blank ending to the audio to restart the audio timer on the next slide, as well as add a transparent highlight box at the end of the slide, but these are ways to fix it when the file is published. Since my issue is happening before publishing, I was hoping someone on this forum may have an answer.

PIP is available in Presenter Video Creator, not in the normal Presenter plug-in. It is not available in Captivate normal projects with extension cptx. You can insert a PIP in the TOC, but have to record it separately.
In Captivate HD Video Demo, extension cpvc (which is also a video creator with a dedicated video editor) you can insert a PIP in the editor. But again you have to create it separately.
The choice is up to you: an easy way to have both recordings together, with very limited editing possibilites in Presenter. Or the Captivate way, more work, better editor.
Afraid to repeat again: we are only talking about pure video now. In the normal Captivate files, that are based on slides, you can insert a video (like a PIP) and distribute it over slides, adapting the slide markers is available in the Video menu. No webcam recording for the moment in Captivate.
Lilybiri

Premiere Pro CS6 Audio Issues

We have been testing Premiere CS6 on our first job for the last week. However, we are running into some major audio issues:
1. When clip is loaded into the source viewer, and you jump to through the cilp, the audio lags behind until you stop and wait a few seconds for the audio to catch up. This is a major hinderance when trying to edit quickly with clients in session. This also happens on the timeline when jumping around. These problems never occured in Avid or FCP running the same media.
2. With no rhyme or reason, the audio (from source and timeline) sometimes just doesnt play. The meteres will be moving and the video will play, but the audio wont be coming out. Sometimes you hear a noise as if someone was playing with the audio cables. Also, sometimes the meters dont even move, to suggest there is no audio again video is playing, when infact there is.
These problems have occured accros multiple machines, with media running from both our server, and local hard drives. Our facility runs a NAS that pushes 110/MB/s over ethernet from a 16TB RAID6 (that is SAS connected to the server). One machine is running OSX 10.8, with Black Magic Intensity Pro, 20GB Ram, NVidia Quadro 4000. Another is running OSX 10.8, with AJA IO Express, 16GB Ram, NVidia 4000. and the last is running 10.6.8 with Black Magic Intesnsity Pro, 12GB ram, and NVidia GTX something or other (unsupported card).
Has anyone else gotten these issues? Like i said, i have tested the media from the server and from the local hard drives. We are pushing Apple Pro Res HQ, have also tested Pro Res LT, Pro Res 444 and Canon H.264.

For me it wasn't a RAM issue, I had more than enough to process the audio I had in my project. This quote from a Creative Cow post worked for me.
"Try deleting your .cfa files for the media in question, and then don't mess with the project until they are done re-conforming."
Here's the original post:
http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/3/926011
I don't know how to figure out which .cfa files are associated to specific media files, so I just went to where they were cached and deleted all of them. Open your project again and you'll see a little yellow bar in the lower left-hand corner of the Timeline window showing that it's re-conforming your media. Don't even think of touching the computer while it's doing this... I was so paranoid that I didn't do anything else (check e-mail, open a web browser, work on a Word doc, etc.) until Premiere was totally finished. After that my audio played fine for the rest of the project.
One thing that's tricky and took me a while to figure out is that if you're using multiple drives, you have to be careful to make sure you're getting ALL of the .cfa files. If you've set the project to cache your files on a external drive, and then open a project on a different drive without having that external connected, Premiere will set the cache folder to its default location (usually on your host computer's main hard drive). I didn't realize this, and had the audio drop-out issue, so I deleted the .cfa files but the drop-out didn't go away. I found out that Premiere had reset my media cache folder, and had cached the corrupted .cfa files on my main hard drive. Once I deleted them there and let the computer re-conform, the audio played well again.
Hope this helps, let me know if you have any questions.

Premiere Elements 9 audio issue

Hi, i have an audio issue with Premiere Elements 9.
I just purchased a Dazzle DVC 100. I've captured Video/Audio through Pinnacle Studio no problems.
But when I try to capture in PE9 I only get Video. I have changed every setting i could find under the
audio preferences menus, tried every combination i could but still no audio. Am i missing something?
Thanks for any help forwarded!
These are the settings i tried.
edit - project settings - playback settings - I've clicked both Desktop Audio/External Device Audio
edit - preference - audio hardware - Default Device - Premiere Elements WDM Sound
                                                                           ASIO Settings - Input - Realtek Digital Input (selected)
                                                                                                  - Output - Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio) (selected)
                                                                                                                - Realtek Digital Output (Realtek High Definition Audio) (selected)
Tried the Default Device: Asio4All v2 setting
This comes up with 2 options Realtek High Def Audio and Dazzle DVC100 Audio Device
I have selected both these still no audio.
I'm stumped.

Unfortunately the Dazzle is one of those low-end capture units that are pretty much made to work with the video editor that comes with them. Even converting the video won't make it more compatible with Premiere Elements.
As I explain in my books as well as in the FAQs to the right of this forum, the best devices for capturing video for editing your PC are called DV bridges. The best value is the ADS Pyro AV Link, available for about $100 online.
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/431853?tstart=0
The video it captures load right into Premiere Elements and edit beautifully!

Audio Issues Upon Importing - the more I have, the slower they play

I have searched in vain for an answer to this problem. I have a 15" Powerbook Aluminum, 1.5 Ghz G4 w/ 1.25G RAM and 10 GB available on the harddrive.
I am working with iMovie 6 with all my movie files on a LaCie external drive connected using a FW800 connection. 195GB capacity, with about 20GB being used up with iMovie files.
Here's my issue. When I import video alone into a project, we have joy. When I try to add audio clips (either AIFF or MP3), the playback slows to a crawl, the video is severely stuttery and the audio is distorted and plays at about half speed (like playing a 33rpm LP at 16rpm).
If I delete the video and import the audio clips, same issue w/slowness and distortion.
If I import the audioc clips singly, they play and sync well with the video to a point, but there's a threshhold at which the playback begins to degrade and the audio issues return.
Very frustrating. Who can point me to some likely culprits? Of, and this began happening in iMovie 5. I was hoping iMovie 6 would solve. no joy.
Thanks all - Joel

I have searched in vain for an answer to this
problem. I have a 15" Powerbook Aluminum, 1.5 Ghz G4
w/ 1.25G RAM and 10 GB available on the harddrive.
I am working with iMovie 6 with all my movie files on
a LaCie external drive connected using a FW800
connection. 195GB capacity, with about 20GB being
used up with iMovie files.
Here's my issue. When I import video alone into a
project, we have joy. When I try to add audio clips
(either AIFF or MP3), the playback slows to a crawl,
the video is severely stuttery and the audio is
distorted and plays at about half speed (like playing
a 33rpm LP at 16rpm).
If I delete the video and import the audio clips,
same issue w/slowness and distortion.
If I import the audioc clips singly, they play and
sync well with the video to a point, but there's a
threshhold at which the playback begins to degrade
and the audio issues return.
Very frustrating. Who can point me to some likely
culprits? Of, and this began happening in iMovie 5. I
was hoping iMovie 6 would solve. no joy.
Thanks all - Joel
OK - here's an update. I dumped my caches, fixed permissions, made changes to QT settings and reset the MIDI settings and the result? The audio is now running fine BUT the video is now not running (or at least ex-treme-ly sl-ooooooow-ly).
Any thoughts folks? I'd be eager to hear your input!

Using external audio interface in iMovie

Hi!
I´m using an external audio device that´s called RME Babyface. I can´t record the audio from the microphone in iMovie. It works great recording audio in in Logic and Garageband, but when I change from "internal microphone" (which works) to "RME babayface", iMovie doesnt receive any audio.(But I can listen to the audio already present in the clips using my headphones hooked up to the RME babyface)
Anyone any clue?
Best regards Starre

I have the same issue with Babyface! Babyface works fine with other programs and even when I change it to the system input for the whole Mac, but for iMovie, there is no signal. And there is no "system settings" option either, like there would be in e.g. GarageBand. Any ideas?

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