[RWP] setting a USB input?

Tue Feb 14 09:50:54 EST 2012

I had that happen also.
I once had a Creative Audigy on my old music computer, then later 
installed an EMu 0404 PCI card.
I had no problems for a long time, until I took that card out to try the 
EMu 1616 M, then when I reinstalled the 0404 PCI back into that same 
machine, somehow the old drivers and other crap from the Audigy got 
stirred up and caused all kinds of problems.
They are all Creative products, and their software has similar elements 
in it that can confuse their different products.
I did a search for anything with the words creative, audigy, etcetera, 
and deleted whatever came up.
I went to windows regedit, and deleted all creative entries in current 
user and local machine software
Then I reinstalled the 0404's specific software, and no problems since.
I'll bet that old audigy asio driver is still in there somewhere, 
screwing up things.
I know it's shown in regedit current user or local machine, in the 
creative folders.
Indigo L

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On 2/13/2012 7:55 PM, colin McDonald wrote:
> I have asio installed, but I can't seem to get it to function as I think
> it is supposed to.
> It seems to be tied to a creative audigy soundcard that was in the
> machine at one point, but that I have taken out long ago.
> I get a CST creative devices error or something similar when I try to
> select any of the asio related drivers in the audio device input/output
> lists in reaper.
>
> Shrug.
>
> And I'm not likely to jump on the apple band wagon quite yet.
>
> Regards
> Colin
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patrick Perdue" <patrick at pdaudio.net>
> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 5:32 PM
> Subject: Re: [RWP] setting a USB input?
>
>
>> This is why I am generally annoyed at all these USB devices floating
>> around. No good common way to bridge the gap between them on Windows.
>> OS X handles this so much more eligantly with Core Audio and Aggregate
>> Devices, which bridges as many audio interfaces as you like into one
>> multi-channel virtual device that can be seen by anything that can
>> take advantage of it.. So many things would automatically be fixed if
>> Windows had the same underlying audio support, but not so much on that.
>>
>> I'm assuming that either asio isn't an option for your interface,
>> which would make things nicer, or that anything sent through it as a
>> return wouldn't quite route the way you'd want it to. I can get quite
>> good latency on my MacBook Air running Windows 7 and MME audio with
>> 128 samples, which I increase to 256 if lots of stuff is going on,
>> assuming asio isn't available. It's the next best thing.
>>
>> Again, if Windows had core audio, stuff like asio wouldn't even be
>> necessary.
>>
>> On Feb 13, 2012, at 7:23 PM, colin McDonald wrote:
>>
>>> actually, it wasn't that complicated after all.
>>> I typically use WDM kirnal for my sound driver because it seems to
>>> have the lowest latency on my machine.
>>> With that device, only the regular onboard soundcard and the "USB
>>> audio device" were showing up.
>>> I switched the driver to direct sound, and suddenly, "mustang
>>> amplifier" showed up in the audio input list. I simply hit enter on
>>> mustang amplifier, and everything works now.
>>> Although, the latency from the amp via USB is just as bad, if not a
>>> bit worse than going through my soundcard line in jack.
>>> I was hoping that it would be reduced to minimal latency.
>>> However, the audio is excellent through the USB input. Although, the
>>> level is rather low compared to line level..about 6 or 7DB down from
>>> normal unity input...I checked in my windows volume control and
>>> although I can find the mustang amp device in recording properties,
>>> it doesn't have any controls to adjust.
>>> No big deal, with massive headroom in reaper, I simply need to
>>> increase volume by 7 DB to get a good unity level...and anything
>>> beyond that is easy with over plus30DB of clean headroom.
>>>
>>> Now if only fender was good enough to make the mustang into a midi
>>> device and offer all the patches as plugins or something...they kind
>>> of do that, but it's with their own fuse software, written in
>>> silverlite and completely inaccessible with JFW or wineyes.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Colin
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
>>> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
>>> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 3:12 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [RWP] setting a USB input?
>>>
>>>
>>>> That's your problem, Colin.
>>>> If you're in Options/preferences/audio devices, and your USB device
>>>> is not showing the word Enabled after it's name, it won't get
>>>> through to record anything.
>>>> I am running Winize, but it's pretty much the same procedure on Jaws.
>>>> Get focus on the name of your USB audio device at your arrow keys.
>>>> Route to your PC cursor and go to your number pad.
>>>> Make sure the name of your USB device is selected at your number pad.
>>>> Right click there at the number pad on its name.
>>>> Now, go back to your arrow keys and arrow down until you find the
>>>> word Configure.
>>>> Hit enter on Configure, go to your tab key and tab down to Enable;
>>>> with a checkbox, and make sure it's checked with your spacebar.
>>>> Then tab down and hit enter on Apply, then hit enter on okay.
>>>>
>>>> It would be a good idea to close and reopen Reaper to learn if it
>>>> now shows Enabled after the USB audio device's name, because I've
>>>> been told that sometimes Jaws makes enabling look as if it's been
>>>> done; but it hasn't taken, and needs to be redone.
>>>> Indigo L
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2/13/2012 3:44 PM, colin McDonald wrote:
>>>>> It's audio sent over USB and not midi.
>>>>> it shows in the availible audio devices list, but it doesn't show
>>>>> enabled or unavailible or disabled or anything like that.
>>>>> I remember when I was setting up midi ins and outs, I could mouse
>>>>> click
>>>>> on the device in the list, and go into another screen where I could
>>>>> enable or disable that device.
>>>>> I'm not getting that with the audio device list.
>>>>> I'll check on my other machine which can be a bit more user friendly
>>>>> with reaper sometimes.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>> Colin
>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "indigo" <33indigo at charter.net>
>>>>> To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
>>>>> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 5:07 AM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [RWP] setting a USB input?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Is that Mustang sending audio over USB?
>>>>>> If so, it should be shown as Enabled in Reaper's Available audio
>>>>>> devices list.
>>>>>> If it's midi sent over USB, it should be shown as Enabled in Reaper's
>>>>>> list of available midi devices.
>>>>>> Indigo L
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 2/12/2012 7:00 PM, colin McDonald wrote:
>>>>>>> Hey guys:
>>>>>>> I'm wondering if anyone can help with setting up reper to listen
>>>>>>> to a
>>>>>>> USB input?
>>>>>>> I just bought a fender mustang IV with USB direct out capability.
>>>>>>> I went into devices in preferences and set the record to USB...but I
>>>>>>> can't seem to get it to let me go in and enable that input even
>>>>>>> though
>>>>>>> it's selected.
>>>>>>> I know it is no longer using the microphone or line in input on the
>>>>>>> soundcard, but nothing seems to be coming from the USB port either.
>>>>>>> The amp automatically recognizes when the USB cable is connected,
>>>>>>> so I
>>>>>>> don't have to go in and set it to USB output or anything.
>>>>>>> Just wondering if I'm missing something?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>>> Colin
>>>>>>>
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