Importing audio via USB

This may not be the right forum for this question, but I really don't know where to post it. I bought a sony turntable to convert traditional records into digital files. The problem is that it came with PC software but no Mac software. I'm wondering which apple app. may help me do the job. Any recommendation would be appreciated.
thanks
mp

Audacity will do the job nicely. And it's free:
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/

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Can MacBook Pro output digital audio via usb?

I'd like to output digital audio via usb. Can it be done from iTunes? This would allow me to go directly to my dac and then to my preamp.
Thanks.

Russell, there are quite a variety of devices that accept digital audio over USB from any mac with a USB port - see http://www.trendsaudio.com/EN/Product/USBAudiodesc.htm for one example.
Try a google on MAC USB Audio OUTPUT any you should pop up some useful options.
Cheers
Rod
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Audio via USB displays input level but no sound is heard.

I have a Roland System 1 synth that features audio via USB. I have installed the drivers, and the System 1 is showing up in my menu for system preferences/sound. When I select the System 1 as my input device, play the keys, and adjust the synths volume knob, the input level meter responds accordingly, showing that the Mac is hearing the output of the synth. However, I can not get the sound to come out of the speakers! The Mac's internal speakers are set as my output device, and they are turned up and working fine with all other audio.

I have MIDI working fine in my DAW.
I just can't get any audio to play through USB, which is a feature of the System 1.
System 1 is set as my input device (driver has been installed) within system preferences/sound, I play the keys, and adjust the synths volume knob, the input level meter responds accordingly in the preferences window, showing that the Mac is hearing the output of the synth. No sound is heard.
All other Audio/system sounds/itunes/etc. can be heard.

Importing Video via USB??

How can I import video vith sound via USB? I have some family cassets and I bought this analog to digital converter but it is for PC I tought I can just plug it in and capture it with i-Movie but I was wrong. Is there any other way to do this? Please help.

Hi Roman,
welcome to this forum
iMovie is an edit app meant to work with firewire connected miniDV camcorders
so, a usb connected PCconverter will not be recognized by iM, and probably will not be recognized by any Mac app... Mac: there's coming in some data from some usb-device, what shall I do? help....
you can give the "image capture app" in your utilities folder a try, but I would be surprised, if THAT combo works... no, PChardware on a Mac... in many cases a NoGo....
as Grandpa told me:
buying cheap means buying twice......... :-/
From VHS to DVD
Give New Life to Old Movies
http://www.macworld.com/2004/05/features/fromvhstodvd/

Digital audio via USB no longer works since IOS8

Hi,
I use the "Lightning to USB Camera Adapter" (ref MD821ZM) to connect my iPhone or the iPad to my Bowers and Wilkins speakers MM-1 USB cable.
This allowed to use the B&W internal DAC.
It has worked fine in IOS 7 and it was a fantastic feature and easy to use.
IOS no longer streams the music digitally to the DAC. it just keeps playing the music from the iPhone/ipad internal speakers.
I truly hope this is only a bug and not a feature Apple has voluntarely decided to remove, which would be a shame because it doesn't harm anyone to keep it.
or anyone has a suggestion (app or something)
thanks,
BigMat

b,
We are in business. I charged the iPod via the cigarette lighter (didn't take long). When I plugged it into the computer after charging it I got the familiar ding-dong sound and the iPod updater immediately prompted me to update the software on the iPod (which I did).
After updating, the computer no longer seemed to recognize it. I stopped all the USB devices that were running, one at a time until I finally saw Apple iPod in the list and I stopped that as well and disconnected.
To make a long story short, after rebooting my computer and reconnecting the iPod, iTunes came up as normal and it looks like I'm over this hurdle.
I have no idea why the computer wouldn't recognize the iPod when the battery was dead but suddenly recognizes it after charging it.
My wife says that the iPod had been left plugged into the computer for a long period of time but I'm not sure what that would have done.
At any rate, we're working now and hopefully someone will get some benefit from this thread.
Thanks again,
Greg.

Want to get a new Macbook and import audio through USB? Look here.

FWIW, as I was reading many of these posts, a lot of folks are suggesting that you NEED firewire for audio interfaces. Here is a link to twenty (USB) audio interfaces and that is just at one site. I myself record hi end audio for film using a M-Audio Fast Track Ultra (8 in and 8 outs) along with Logic and Final Cut Pro. Firewire is great, can have less latency, and a lot of users still have gear. I won't get into that debate, it's been beat to death. Just wanted to be accurate to any budding musicians, etc. who might be scared off by all this talk re: Firewire a necessity for pro audio. Latency (a problem 'sometimes' associated with USB devises transferring slower data) is old news. Technology has come a long way since the days of a USB 1.0 MBox. Get a new Macbook, a good audio interface, write a great song and you're in business -- all in style with your new sexy MB. Here's the link: http://www.sweetwater.com/c695--USBAudioInterfaces

I'd still beg to differ, and I would hazard a guess that most people who work in Audio would agree that firewire interfaces are as a general rule of thumb, far superior. Now a reason that I'm not too inclined to recommend M-Audio is because I had an M-Audio USB interface, and it was nothing but trouble, pops clicks, dropouts, high on the CPU, it would reset the USB bus and cause crashes, often forcing me to reboot mid session. Plus the MIDI interface never did work!
I hope they've cleaned up their act since then, and I guess if you can get work done on your interface that they must have done.
I do find it odd though that the company who Apple partnered with to release some audio interfaces that work seamlessly with Garageband and Logic chose firewire, so if you buy a new macbook and want to use the interface that Apple recommends to use with garageband you can't.
Now one of the reasons I have a macbook, is that last year my iBook died, and I needed a new notebook to go with my MOTU interface, I could just about have stretched my budget to a MBP, but seeing as they used the Lucent (Agere) firewire chipset, there was a strong chance that any decent firewire interface wouldn't work with it, and I've heard that the new MBP uses the Lucent chipset, rather than the more dependable TI one, so there's a chance that professional audio may have to skip this whole generation of notebook refreshes, that is until Apple start using a decent chipset again.
And I'm sorry, the argument that Pros would only use the Pro machine seems a little naive (see above reason), sometimes portability is a pre-requisite for a persons needs, the portability that say the old 12" Powerbook had, which many still miss. Plus as far as portability goes many firewire multi channel interfaces are bus powered, something that AFAIK you can't get with USB.
But all audio interface disagreements aside, one thing that USB does not have, and I don't think could have, is DSP, like the SSL Duende, the TC Powercore, the Focusrite Liquidmix. All three which come in a variety of flavours, including the less powerful, but more price friendly variety, perfect for end users who want a bit of class but without paying the earth.
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Import Video via USB from Sony Handycam HDD

Just purchased Final Cut Express, eager to get to my first project. Plugged in my camera the only way possible (mini usb), my mac mini recognized the camera and I navigated using the import menu.
Finding the *.mpg files that are on my camera's hard drive I selected the ones I wanted and "chose". An error message appeared telling me that these *files were unrecognizable*.
Investigating, I found I could not open them in quicktime player - but could view them just fine using my favorite 3rd party player VLC.
I did a bit of google'ing to find I'm screwed. My research tells me that my camera writes them in a "multiplexed" encoding, which Quicktime can't read even though it's mpeg. One solution that was offered is to loop it through a composite dongle and rerecord all of my footage in real time - but that's not an option for me.
*How can I get my Sony Handicam HDD camera to import into FCE? Is their some free conversion software or drivers?*
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More frustration. I finished batching my footage for my project, and just as I lay the first scenes on the timeline and tell it to playback, I get this nasty "Unrendered" message in the player. I didn't add any effects or mess with settings, they're the same clips they just previewed for me - but now they're on the timeline where I need to work on them.
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Importing DV via USB with Sony DCR-HC36

I used two cameras recently to get different angles on the same shoot. One was the Sony DCR-HC36. I have also connected an external drive to have more space. But since I am using a MacBook Pro I only have one fire wire port so i am trying to use the USB port to import the film. Can I do this?
Would appreciate any suggestions as to how I can solve this problem.
B

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Can't import RAW Files via usb

I bought a canon eos 5D a couple of days ago. I don't know why but I can't import the raw files from the usb connection. When I press the eos 5D button from the import dialogue, the lightroom says "no files were found to import". Everything works perfect with an external reader but I do want to import them via usb. I don't want to be removing the card too often.
Can anybody help me or guide me to a possible solution?. Zoombrowser works fine and imports without problem. I love lightroom and don't understand why I can't import via usb. It's strange but it doesn't happen with jpg files. With those, I got no problem.
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It is a "by design" issue of the Canon driver software. There is nothing wrong with your hardware. To get the RAW files you need a card reader. <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected].. > Maybe you are right, but I want to know that everything works perfect with > my camera. Nevermind if I'm going to use it or not. It is two days old and > I see that not everything is working properly. > > thanks so much for your help, Lee.

Solved! NTFS-3G Issue on Mac Maverick when plugging a hard drive via USB

This issue can be solved in less than 5 minutes, but it is not free. if you are willing to sort it out once and for good, read on, it’s well worth it!
“I love my Mac!”, that is a common expression you might hear everyday, but not many people are willing to admit that Macs really suck and become a nightmare the moment you plug a hard drive, new or filled with those important files, via USB. Apparently most commercial backup hard drives are formatted with Windows file systems by default and Macs will only be able to read the contents of these discs after properly formatting them on Mac.
I have 3 external hard drives filled with mp4 movies and uni files, and formatting is absolutely a no-no here. So I was forced to open those files using the Windows virtual machine (via Parallel) in my Mac, which really ***** too. According to the many websites I visited for solution, you either had to buy some apps or die with that NTFS-#G error message when plugging a USB hard drive. There is also an encouragement to either format the drives on Mac before you can use, and again, in my case, this is impossible.
“NTFS-3G could not mount /dev/disk1s1 at /Volumes/Vuakalevu because the following problem occurred: dyld:
Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libfuse.2.dylib Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g
Reason: image not found”
I think I just solved that issue once and for all, but nothing comes for free, as in anything with Mac computers. The “Paragon NTFS for Mac OSX”, which cost me $19.99 from their official website seems to have sorted me out, now I can plug any hard drive, no matter the format, and Maverick will read it as it should (read and write). Well worth it, and i do recommend it.
This was originally posted in my website, so feel free to come around if you like.
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Hi Linc Davis, yep! i did everything according to read me, tried all free ones, only made it worse. uninstalled the whole lot, didnt work either. I read around in forums the same thing "simply remove the app causing this issue and it will be sorted" didnt work for me. this Paragon sorted me out after 2 years of external hard drive issues. Im not sure if your reply was an assertion or a question though. cheers

Can you import video footage from a tape camera via usb into final cut?

I have new macbook, late 2008, and I am missing the firewire port.
I have a tape camera so I cannot import video into imovie via usb.
If I bought final cut express, could I be able to do such an import?
Thank you.

Nope. USB only.
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When iPhone 5s is connected via USB no audio is heard

Hi There -
I've seen older threads on this issue but I don't think I've really come across any solutions. My issue started yesterday; now before reading further I have to ask that you please keep in mind that I did perform the latest upgrade on my iPhone a bit earlier in the day.
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I know the USB cable is working fine because when I do plug it into either phone the phone makes the little connection sound and pops up a brief battery percentage box. I also know the cable is working because when we announce USB as our audio of choice the system recognize USB via the iPhone.
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Amazon has got special price for buying both packages together. I believe it is a difference of about $20, i.e. you pay 20 bucks more if you buy both products.

Audio out via USB plays briefly , then shuts off

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