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Hi all,
Hoping you can help. I have an M-audio Fasttrack USB connected to an iMac G5. When I plug an electric guitar into the line input I get a very limited signal comming into the mac. I have checked the audio preferences and the input selections but cant seem to get a strong enough signal. Can anyone offer suggestions.
Thanks

I'm having what I believe to be the same problem with a different, but I assume very similar, keyboard: an M-Audio 49e. I tried raising the volume in the settings suggested by the website, which do raise the volume, but the volume slider in the main work area on the track always defaults to around 1/3 full volume –– incredibly frustrating. I feel like this has something to do with the volume slider on the keyboard itself, which I remember was functional with earlier version of GarageBand, but not with this one. I do not think that that solution has actually solved this problem, and I know that many others are having it as well.

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