Subject:monitoring of input

Posted by: anticipon

Date:4/16/2003 1:27:34 AM

i just bought an m-audio usb audiophile soundcard, and i'm looking for some software that'll support it. i have to change from cool edit [which i'm sad about] to something else, because i need something that handles the monitoring of the line-in digitally.
you see, my soundcard doesn't actually monitor the input directly, as in i plug in my microphone, i plug in my headphones, i can't hear my voice in my headphones. it records and plays back fine, but m-audio told me that my recording software needs to be able to output the sound itself. which i swore about since this card is worth about $200 - you'd think you could just plug the headphones in and hear what's going on in there.
anyway, all i'm asking is can soundforge handle digital monitoring of the input? is this the software i'm looking for?
thankyouverymuch

Subject:RE: monitoring of input

Reply by: Jovi

Date:4/16/2003 2:00:06 AM

Hi!

I don't really understand what you mean by "handles the monitoring of the line in digitally" because that's what all soundcards do, handling the sound digitally. There's two ways of monitoring your input. hardware or software. Through software monitoring you get a souncard and driver dependent amount of latency but with the possiblility to let the signal pass thru effects like i.e reverb when recording vocals. And the other way, which is through your hardware where you get no latency and just a pure input signal. Your card is capable of both but i'm not sure what you're looking for. Choose "monitor mixer" in the m-audio drivers and un-mute and drag the analog input sliders all the way up then you at least should have hardware monitoring. For software monitoring you probably have to get an ASIO or EASI, WDM capable multitracker application like Cubase SX, Logic, Sonar or likely.

Good Luck!

/Johan

Subject:RE: monitoring of input

Reply by: anticipon

Date:4/16/2003 5:20:13 AM

yeah, i'm talking about software monitoring. my soundcard doesn't support hardware monitoring. so what i need is something like ASIO or WDM. does soundforge not have something like this?
also, maybe you know of a program that runs in the background that is purely for software monitoring? that way i could stick to cool edit pro, of whom i all know and love.
thankyouverymuch for your help

Subject:RE: monitoring of input

Reply by: drbam

Date:4/16/2003 8:56:21 AM

If you have a mixer, you can route it to monitor with any card.

drbam

Subject:RE: monitoring of input

Reply by: Rednroll

Date:4/16/2003 10:23:22 AM

Sound Forge won't do what you are asking. Vegas 4.0 will.

Subject:RE: monitoring of input

Reply by: anticipon

Date:4/17/2003 7:03:45 AM

is there a stand-alone program that only deals with monitoring?

Subject:RE: monitoring of input

Reply by: tomate

Date:5/1/2003 11:06:06 PM

Regarding your first post, I bought the duo and have the same problem in windows xp (dont want another OS). I wrote to m-audio tech support and the answer was...

First of all, please download and install Service Pack 1 for Windows XP from the Microsoft site.
The DUO does not have direct monitoring except when in Standalone mode, although if your software uses ASIO drivers you will be able to enable monitoring via software.
You'll have to check your software documentation for the proper way to enable monitoring within the application.
Tech Support
M-Audio

I checked the vegas site and vegas 4.0 supports asio drivers and record input monitoring. Now all I have to do is get vegas 4.0...

Subject:RE: monitoring of input

Reply by: Geoff_Wood

Date:5/2/2003 4:23:44 PM

I wish SF6.0g, 6.5, or 7.0 will optionally pass the signal (the one that get to the rec meters) from my digital input (AdB Multiwave) to my audio soundcard output so that I can hear what's happening !


geoff

Subject:RE: monitoring of input

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:5/3/2003 8:02:38 PM

With the right interface, you can.

My Audiophile 2496 lets me record via S/PDIF in and sends that info along to the RCA (analog) outs and/or S/PDIF out, letting me hear playback while also hearing the recording. Would be nice to not have to go through this finagling though. (Not too big a fan of ASIO as well.)

Iacobus

Subject:RE: monitoring of input

Reply by: JTelles

Date:5/4/2003 2:02:00 PM

Well, the simple Mia (by Echo) does the same, no problem monitoring. What it does not allow you is to control the actual recording level coming through either analog or SPDIF in. That can be a problem if the external signal source cannot control the level of signal being sent.
JTelles