Sound input |
July, 23, 2003 12:37 PM |
jseibyl |
Anyone out there got a work-around for sound input??? My os 9 side works great with my mic, but OSX does not see the microphone, so no sound input. Using amped speakers, so my volume knob is on the speaker, gotta love old world :-) System is 9500 g4 800 OS 10.2.6 Thanks to any help!! |
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RE: Sound input |
August, 22, 2003 12:29 PM |
marcush |
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I've seen a report on xlr8yourmac.com that the Audigy works for basic I/O but that test was done on a MDD Dual 867 I believe. I also read in a report at thinksecret.com about six months ago that Apple was quietly working on drivers to support the Audigy and Soundblaster in Panther but have not read anything about that since. So there seems to be a good possibility there. Still, I would not expect very good performance from our OldWorld machines with a USB solution. Bus bandwidth is a big problem as I'm sure others here can attest to. That's why the M-Audio people told me at Macworld that I should go with a PCI card rather than their USB box. In the earlier versions of the drivers I noticed that enabling the cirle surround feature did result in a noticeable performance hit. The latest version (v 1.2.5) is much better and does not result in the sluggish performance of the previous versions. I used the card earlier this summer to convert a large cassette tape collection to mp3's and it worked great. |
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RE: Sound input |
August, 21, 2003 10:59 PM |
w18593323 |
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The M audio is a great card with incredible quality but has a large cpu utilization and bus utilization due to the host processing nature of the card (i.e like a win modem, it's just an ADC/DAC). I don't know if they are drivers available, but a soudblaster audigy will be much more efficient than the M-audio |
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RE: Sound input |
August, 04, 2003 2:01 PM |
ivanxqz |
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Ha ha, yeah, the 2400 works, but mine has been upgraded to a G3/320 (bet you didn't know you could do that to it, either). It is slow, but very nearly usable. I wouldn't want to use it as my everyday machine, however (it's a server now). It doesn't sleep, there's no brightness control, but it's...really cool. XPF with Jaguar apparently requires a G3, but 10.1 only required a 603. I did run 10.1 on a non-upgraded 2400, and THAT was slower than paint drying -- it really was unusable, except maybe for the terminal. Ivan. |
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RE: Sound input |
July, 30, 2003 6:48 PM |
luiggi.xavier |
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the canopus advc card gives you analog video+sound input via OHCI DV converter www.av2p.com/canopus/produits/montage/advc1394.htm great deal while waiting for the onboard audio-in k-extension |
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RE: Sound input |
July, 30, 2003 3:47 PM |
mjoecups358 |
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Your 2400C works with imic? Wow, you are so cool... Really, I mean it. I didn't even know the 2400 worked? Is it slower then paint drying? Looks like 10.3 might help. Marty |
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RE: Sound input |
July, 30, 2003 8:00 AM |
ivanxqz |
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My 2c...I use my Griffin iMic for both sound input and output on my 2400c running 10.2.4. Works fine. (Output is nice because in addition to being cleaner, it allows me to shut off my internal speaker, which using the built-in output will not do under OS X.) |
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RE: Sound input |
July, 29, 2003 9:04 AM |
jseibyl |
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Thanks for all the input! I can live with what I have, though the revolution card will be my next toy for this machine, since I want decent recordings for video soundtracks, etc. In the meantime, I still can use OS 9 for doing on the fly recordings. I hope this issue will be fixed with XPF 3! Sounds like some machines actually do work with sound, anybody try an 8500?? I agree with the posting about the Sonnet enablers. I installed XPF, then the Sonnet tune-up to enable my L3 cache. That is as far as I am willing to go, since I don't even want to think about playing with two similar (but possibly different) boot extensions. The machine is running great as it is, and since it took me a few days to get all 4 of my drives settled in and stable, this is the only issue I have right now. |
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RE: Sound input |
July, 28, 2003 10:27 PM |
powderhaus |
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Sonnets enabler is basicly the same as XPF. they add a few sonnet extentions for sonnet cards and call it theirs and charge 30$ for it. And then you can add their extentions for free by using XPF and then using their Sonnet Tune Up software, then re-installing XPF extentions. I would dout that they changed it that much. if i could find my old Mic i could test it again, it did not work for me in XPF 2.2b12 and under 10.1.5, now i have 2.2.5 or whatever it is upto and OS 10.2.6 so alot has changed. |
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RE: Sound input |
July, 28, 2003 8:06 PM |
tomquinlan |
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Awhile back I emailed Sonnet about their install X utility and they said that if sound in wasn't working with XPostFacto, their solution would work either. Griffins iMic is probably the cheapest solution on the market (about $35). Tom |
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RE: Sound input |
July, 28, 2003 1:35 PM |
macman |
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I personally use a PCI soundcard (MAudio Audiopile 2496). It's funny, but the instabilities that I see with sound apps and this card are going away with the latest rev of the OS. I use Sound Studio 2.07 as my main recording app, although I know of some folks that use Amadeus to record short sounds. It all depends what you are planning to do with the sound. For my use, I am ripping my LP/Cassettes. Sound Studio has a great "auto start/stop" script that works like a charm for most pop recordings (doesn't do so well for classical or jazz where long quiet passages tend to trigger the stop recording script values). The PCI card is $$ but it's well worth the money, because it can drop into either a PC or later series mac with no troubles. I know that I'll get all the mileage out of the card when it does become obsolete . Stephen |
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RE: Sound input |
July, 28, 2003 12:46 PM |
steven |
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Hi all, I'm new here... I installed Mac OS X with XPF this week on a 8600 with a MaxPowr 400 G3 and the mic is working. So it is not impossible... Don't know what to do with it though, I don't use voice recognition and I don't see a simple app to record sounds like simplesound.. Greetings, Steven |
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RE: Sound input |
July, 28, 2003 10:54 AM |
jseibyl |
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I am trying to do this without spending any more money on my 9500, though that IS a good idea since I would get better recording on a PCI sound card, I suspect. I just spoke to a friend who is running the Sonnet install solution on a 9500. He tells me he has sound input from the onboard chipset, so it seems possible to do it without additional hardware. I am curious as to the difference between that solution and XPostFacto. I do know that he does not get the cute grey apple at boot screen.....:-) |
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RE: Sound input |
July, 26, 2003 10:09 PM |
trgreen |
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The Griffin POWERWAVE works great on my 8600/G4700. Runs ISUB and Apple PRO SPEAKERS with just USB hookup. FM as far as I can tell. |
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RE: Sound input |
July, 26, 2003 8:00 AM |
jseibyl |
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I know someone who used the Sonnet install x utility. Apparently, he has sound input, but I need to confirm. |
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RE: Sound input |
July, 25, 2003 6:07 PM |
marcush |
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I got around the whole issue by going out and buying an M-Audio Revolution 7.1 sound card. It works perfectly for recording and sound output. At the last Macworld SF I went to the M-Audio booth and explained to them that I was going to use this card in my Power Tower Pro under OSX. They told me that though they would not officially support my machine that I should have no problems with it. They were correct. They did recommend that I go for the PCI card rather than their equivalent external USB solution. They said that I probably would see performance issues if I tried to use it. My Power Tower Pro has a Sonnet G4/800, 1GB RAM, OSX 10.2.6. |
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RE: Sound input |
July, 25, 2003 1:52 PM |
mjoecups358 |
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This is a long standing known issue. It seems like it should be pretty easy to fix.... But apparently NOT! Marty PS I did get audio in via a USB2 card and an Onkyo USB device... Also I think the revolution 7.1 PCI card works... I think. |
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RE: Sound input |
July, 25, 2003 10:09 AM |
jseibyl |
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I will keep looking...I can use 9.2 in the mean time. |
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RE: Sound input |
July, 25, 2003 7:26 AM |
bobegee |
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Same problem with PowerTower Pro. I am running 10.2.6 with a Sonnet 800mHz card. A sound input fix would be a great addition to Xpostfacto 3.x |
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