Mobilepre USB and GarageBand

I have been using m-audio's mobilepre usb interface with my intel I-mac for sometime without any problems, but since my update to Leopard I'm having problems. I have an M-audio Nove mic using phantom power with the mobilepre hooked to the system, but when I try to record I get pops and static and dropping out. I have updated the drivers, but to no avail. It seems as if something is interfering with the system. It will start to record coreectly, but then it goes haywire. If anyone is or has had this problem please help.

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I am an elementary school music teacher. I connect a "thrifty" 61 key keyboard via MIDI to my laptop, pick up a very good piano sound I have loaded in Garageband and send it back out to high quality speakers: thus junk keyboard becomes controller to some great sound.
The keyboard is shot needs replacement. Many of the inexpensive models now have usb instead of MIDI connections. Will Garageband pick up the send from the keyboard via USB like it did with MIDI?
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Hi phjo,
Thanks for the info. I guess I'll have to wait and see when my new iMac arrives.
By the way, besides a newer and faster processor, is there any other major difference between the old 20" iMac and the new Core 2 Duo one?
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Well, I ordered my 20" iMac on the 25th of August, and it wasn't suppose to ship till tomorrow. And today, I found out I got a nice free upgrade to the new Core 2 Duo 20" iMac, which really made me happy Looks like I'll be getting one of the first BTO Core 2 Duo iMacs, which is really awesome
Anyway, my question to you all is about the M-Audio MobilePre USB and if any of you got it working on the Intel iMacs running 10.4.7. Last I checked, they only had Intel and PPC drivers for upto 10.4.6. My Powerbook is running 10.3.9 so I can't test to see if it would work with the latest OS (plus, the power adapter had a melt down, so I can't even use it at the moment).
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Thanks for the info. I guess I'll have to wait and see when my new iMac arrives.
By the way, besides a newer and faster processor, is there any other major difference between the old 20" iMac and the new Core 2 Duo one?
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Can't hear sound with M-Audio MobilePre USB driver in Logic 7.2

Hi. I've installed an M-Audio MobilePre USB interface to hook up a nova mic and i've also hooked up an oxygen eight midi keyboard. Can't get any sound from Logic when i select M-Audio MobilePre USB as my driver, and can't get Logic to recognize my midi keyboard. I have downloaded the latest M-Audio MobilePre USB update off the web, and still nothing. I'm new at all of this. Can someone help me? Thanks in advance.

I'm wondering did you install the drivers and after that plugin the usb devices or did you leave them plugged in during install?
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Hi all - I try to record out of my iMultiMix8USB into Garageband. The first minutes all seems very well. Good sound, all as expected. After a while a very noisy distortion suddenly comes up and the good sound disapperas ... So I have the same problem as reported in the tread below with Garageband 3. Is there no solution? I would be happy and I don't want to throw away my multimix.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7460429

It's unbelievable! It is working now!
No more distortions and noisy sounds when I'm recording with my iMultimix8USB to my Mac and Garageband. Oh I love it ... it's so nice ... the sound quality is amazing. Nothing compared to the direct analog connection with its regular noise and beeps ... and much better than the direct recording to the plugged-in iPod with its little but still disturbing distortions.
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OK ... download the USB-Audio-Driver from Yahama and select it within Garageband as your Audio Source. I have played now on my piano for at least 30 minutes and only best sound! At least what was produced by the technical epuipment . So the USB AUDIO CODEC driver was causing my problems.
I've taken this driver:
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No audio selection after loading Driver for M-Audio MobilePre USB

I recently downloaded the latest Driver for my M-Audio MobilePre USB on my Mac Pro and the audio input out put selection in the system preferences are not showing up. However it does show it listed in "Other" in system preverences, but only the volume control.
How do I get it the input and output selection to work?

I tried calling them but they said you need to have a service number, when you registered, which I got mine about 9 or so years ago and dont remember any numbers!
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What do you think about M-Audio MobilePre USB?

I need to buy an audio interface with my mac, but I don't really know what to buy. The MobilePre USB seemed to be okay for my budget, but is there any latency problems since the hardware is USB connected?
What are your other suggestions for an audio interface that works well (Edirol, M-audio, others???)? I don't need more than two simutaneous audio inputs.
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Etienne Lehoux-Jobin

I have the MobilePre and I'm pleased with it. The latency is not really an issue for me. It's low enough that when I record direct with my bass, I don't notice it at all. If you use the hardware monitoring headphone jack, be sure to turn off software monitoring, or you will notice a very brief echo/reverb sound due to the latency. I don't use the hardware or software monitor when recording guitar, and I either plug the amp's line out into the preamp or mic it. For vocals I just turn off my monitors (or you could turn off software monitoring in Logic) and plug in headphones to the zero-latency jack. Sometimes I will turn off hardware monitoring and add some reverb to the vocal track while recording, and the software monitoring works just fine too... I don't notice the latency.
One nice feature is you can plug in two mics, and two instruments and record them all at once, but you still only have two channels and can't separate them into four signals. That means you need to adjust your instrument volume and the preamp gain before recording since you can't adjust the mix later.
But I do have my complaints with the MobilePre! The biggest annoyance is that after a while the device will make bizarre noises that get worse and you must reconnect the device. This happens after a few weeks maybe. But what's more annoying is sometimes after I reconnect the device my iBook will hang for several minutes before recognizing the device. On one occasion it caused a kernel panic and I had to reboot! I really hate this, since I take my iBook to work every day and have to reconnect when I get home. Plugging the device in while the iBook is still sleeping, then opening the case seems to work better.
Another thing to beware of is the preamps aren't the best quality (obviously, for $150!). When I turn them up past 3/4 they introduce noticable noise and at night they pick up some weirdo radio station. I rarely need to set them past 1/2 though (which is low enough that I can't hear the radio station interference) and can boost the signal in Logic if it's necesarry.
Overall, the MobilePre was so cheap the small problems weren't enough for me to say I regret buying one. I haven't heard anyone else have the same problem with reconnecting the device so I can't say you'll have the same problem. I've had mine a year and I'm looking to get a Firebox soon, since I have started to outgrow my MobilePre. But it has served me well.

Home Recording w/ AT3035 & M-Audio Mobilepre USB

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I am looking for a good way to get sound from my mic (Audio Technica AT3035) into my iBook (G3, OS X.3.9, 900MHz, 256 MB RAM).
A friend recommended the M-Audio Mobilepre USB, but I've read about people having problems w/ condenser mics.
I realize ideally I would get a new computer and an Mbox, but that's not an option. I'm a grad student, and funds are very limited. Even the Mobilepre is stretching it.
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Wes: I purchased a Behringer mic200, which is a low priced tube preamp with +48v phantom power for a condenser mic. I have been very happy with the results and features. I know that A.R.T. also makes a good one. Only problem for you is that these preamps are powered via a wall wart. Set up is via the audio input jack as opposed to usb.

Podcasting interviews with iChat and Garageband -tips and then questions-

Okay, I did a search before I asked this and there have been a few scattered topics on it. Some answered my question(s) some didn't so hopefully I can consolidate some of the qestions here and tell about my own experience. This is long so be prepared:
Here are the Apple Articles on doing this:
ichat- (number of voice chats total, and specs to do it)
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garageband- (number of real tracks it can take, up to 8)
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garageband- (how it records the chat(s) http://www.apple.com/ilife/garageband/features/ichatrecording.html
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Fast forward to last night, while on iChat using my AIM account (NOT.mac) I contacted a friend about trying this. He was on a PC with AIM and a mic. I invited him 4 times and the invite never worked, it timed out or was not accepted. We both chacked out anti-virus and firewall setting (him anti-virus, me firewall) and still got nothing, but we did find a support article on it- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93208 .
Then HE sent the invite and it worked. Great, we were chatting no problem. So I open Garageband and tried to record. Only one chat track. It has both of our voices, but only one track. Tried, new track, new basic track, new podcast track, and they were all the same. They were also all chosen with the "real instrument" choice because of the input from the mic.
Now this is my set-up. For audio "in" I have a logitech USB mic going into a USB Griffin PowerWave. The PowerWave also controls my "Out" to which I have 2 crappy external speakers that I picked up free from a friend.
The reason I am using a PowerWave for "in and out" is because A- I record a lot of vinyl and analog sources into my computer and the PowerWave has the best input/output solution short of getting any M-Audio products which I'm too broke to get. And B- my Apple Pro Speakers had the prong on the jack snap off in the speaker audio out jack, leaving me with only headphones for audio out. (with the prong stuck in the speaker jack the computer will think the speakers are still plugged in and won't play via "built in audio", but anything plugged into the headphone jack will over-ride that.) The Griffin PowerWave is connected via USB and works right around all of that.
Now I do have 2 choices for "Audio in" in my sys prefs. one is the PowerWave (which I choose when recording a source like a stereo or record player) and one is the Logitech mic. I choose the logitech mic (even though it's connected to and playing THROUGH the PowerWave (the PowerWave also has USB "in") it still reads as a seperate input source. For "Out" I have built-in, and the PowerWave, I choose the PowerWave cause thats where my external speakers are connected.
So I was able to do the chat, but NOT get multiple tracks for multiple chats to work.
Here is my system configuration as well as audio configuration.
Dual 800 MGHZ G4 quicksilver.
896 Ram
Cable Modem Connection (comcast)
OS X- 10.4.8
GB- 3.0.4 (104.7)
iChat- 3.1.5 (v436)
IN-
Logitech USB Mic- connected via "USB in" to Griffin PowerWave
Griffin PowerWave- connected via USB to G4
OUT-
Griffin PowerWave- connected via USB
External Speakers- connected to "audio OUT" on Griffin PowerWave
For anyone who doesn't know what a Griffin PowerWave is here is a link:
http://www.welovemacs.com/3254pwrw.html
It's a BIG Step up from a iMic in terms of availible connectivity both in and out. It's about 3 years old and Griffin does not make them anymore. Most people now are using USB 2.0 or Firewire audio boxes to get multiple input and oputput connections for the Mac and various instruments.
So after all that, my question is, what could I be doing wrong? The Apple article(s) mention nothing about internal or external Mics. Is it my settings? Is it because it was done in AIM and iChat, not just 2 macs and iChat like the experiment in the store? I think I've done everything right, but still only ONE chat track somes up. Also I have done chats in Skype, as well as Ventrillo (while gaming) with this set up, so I know it works, I'm just trying to figure out how to get the multiple chat tracks. Please give me some advice. Thanks in advance.
Keith M

Alrighty-
I just got off the phone with Apple support. With their tech I was able to find that this DOES work with my set-up.
While I was using iChat and my AIM account, the tech and I were able to have an audio chat and have garageband record it using HIS (the tech) .mac account as well as his AIM account.
What we seemed to find out that if I want to record it, I have to be the one that initiates the chat. (which is why my friend sending the invite didn't let it work and it was recording it as one track.)
If I send the invite and the other party accepts it, I then opened Garageband, started a standard "new project" (deleated the defualt grand piano track) then chose "new track" with "real instrument" and the following message came up- "garageband is detecting and active ichat, do you want to record that chat"(paraphrased): I chose "yes" and away we went recording the chat with one track for each participant.
Not sure how many folks I can add into the chat, nor don't know if it will add new tracks on the fly. Probably not. But at least I got it working, I know it does work with AOL and .mac accounts, I guess it might have been some network issues in terms of my PC friend's anti-virus or firewall settings, or the network itself.
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