Re: [Audacity-devel] Audacity-with Mackie Onyx 1620

[Leland <le...@au...>]

Actually, Audacity "can" do ASIO.  It requires a rebuild with the correct
SDKs installed.  We can't distribute it that way due to licensing, but
there's nothing stopping an individual from getting ASIO goodness out of
Audacity.  :-)

Leland

On 6/3/07 2:26 PM, "Phil Reed" <pr...@dn...> wrote:

> This question appeared on the Audacity help boards. I took a look at the
> Onyx documentation today, and I believe the problem is that the Onyx
> only does ASIO, which Audacity doesn't handle.
> 
> Gale Andrews wrote:
>>     | From "Doc Nelson" <gn...@qu...>
>>     | Sat, 2 Jun 2007 16:58:42 -0700
>>     | Subject: [Audacity-devel] Audacity-with Mackie Onyx 1620
>>     | I have asked a couple times about my inability to get Audacity to "see"
>> the
>>     | Onyx mixer and it seems never to come to the surface.
>>     | Am I doing something incorrectly?
>>     | Is this a dumb question that I should know how to figure out?
>> 
>> Where have you asked this? I see there is a Gary Nelson on our -users list
>> who writes from another address. He is obviously a highly accomplished user,
>> he's referred to a Mackie mixer in a couple of posts, but was not asking
>> about
>> how to set Audacity up to record with one or apparently experiencing
>> problems.   
>> 
>> We would need to know what operating system you are on (e.g. Windows XP,
>> OS X 10.4, and if you are on OS X, whether you have an Intel Mac or Power
>> PC). 
>> Also please tell us what version of Audacity you are using (see Help > About
>> Audacity or Audacity > About Audacity in the program). Especially if you are
>> on 
>> OS X you should use Audacity 1.3.3 as this uses a later version of PortAudio
>> which is more likely to interface properly with a Firewire device.  If you
>> are on 
>> Windows, you won't generally speaking to be able to record more than two
>> channels at a time with current versions of Audacity.
>> 
>> If you have a usage question like this, the appropriate list is the -help
>> list 
>> aud...@li...
>> 
>> not the -devel list which is a subscription list to discuss development
>> issues 
>> and which means you will get all the mail from this list unless you
>> unsubscribe
>> from it. The -help list does not require subscription. If you hit reply on
>> this 
>> message you will reply to the -help list then if you try 1.3.3 (if you are on
>> OS X this requires 10.3 or later) and tell us what operating system you are
>> on 
>> I will try and help further from there. I don't see any problem from other
>> correspondence with this mixer except for OS X, where you need to use 1.3.3
>> and match the sample rate/format/number of channels in Audacity, Apple
>> Audio-MIDI Setup and on the mixer.
>> 
>> 
>> Gale Andrews
>> 
>>