Nick, I have tried several times but have not yet had full success. Audio: I can monitor an audio signal from PD though the Mbox but cannot get an audio signal into PD via the Mbox. I have not nailed down the nature of this problem yet. I think it is a PortAudio problem, but I am unsure. With most versions of PAv18, I can only get audio signals out of PD not in. Even the Built-in audio has this problem when compiled with certain versions of PortAudio. Alex was trying to get his system working as well and maybe he can provide more info.
MIDI: I have used the Fastlane 2X2 but have had better results with a 1X1 MIDI interface (Roland UM-1).
Hope this helps, Mitch
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Message: 10 Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 14:22:50 +0100 From: Nick Fells nick@music.gla.ac.uk To: pd-list@iem.kug.ac.at Subject: [PD] Pd on OSX...
Hi all,
Sorry to bug the list with a question that came up a few months ago (April I think).
Has anyone had success with the following setup yet?
PD with 2 channels duplex audio + MIDI i/o using OSX, Digidesign MBox, and MOTU Fastlane... I'm using Adam Lindsay's 'unofficial' OSX installer...
I want to buy a number of machines with this setup but don't want to do it until I know it is ok (and I have to do it in a real hurry... groan)
Any advice/results appreciated.
Cheers,
Nick
Dr Nick Fells, Music Department, University of Glasgow, Tel: +44 (0) 141-330 4096 Glasgow G12 8QQ Fax: +44 (0) 141-330 3518 UK. http://www.gla.ac.uk/music/staff/nick http://www.gla.ac.uk/music/studio
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Mitchell Turner, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Music LaGrange College 601 Broad Street LaGrange, GA 30240 USA
Office: 706-880-8015 FAX: 706-880-8028 mturner@lagrange.edu
On Tuesday, June 24, 2003, at 07:11 pm, Mitchell Turner wrote:
Nick, I have tried several times but have not yet had full success.
I had none with all the sound cards I have tried so far. (5)
Audio: I think it is a PortAudio problem, but I am unsure. With most versions of PAv18, I can only get audio signals out of PD not in.
No, this is not a PA problem, although it used to be one. I got in touch with Phil Burk and he spent kindly some times to check PA with a MOTU and a Hammerfall on OSX without any problems.
Even the Built-in audio has this problem when compiled with certain versions of PortAudio.
That is true, the version of PA released in April solved most of the problem of audio in PD, apart from the inputs problem unfortunately.
Alex was trying to get his system working as well and maybe he can provide more info.
I was actually waiting for some people to bring more to that problem which is a real one. A strange fact however that I did not post: an official update of PA dated from April is meant to be part of pd0.37, but we find the same problem in pd0.37 than with the previous version of PA. I have tried however to compile pd again with the latest version of PA but without success. I don' t understand that and this is mainly why I am still on pd0.36. I think there is something wrong with the way pd communicate with PA because it made no difference with any version of PA I have tried when compiling.
MIDI:
I have used the Fastlane 2X2 but have had better results with a 1X1 MIDI interface (Roland UM-1).
I have had no problem with MIDI with the Fastlane, the microexpress and recently with an Edirol 1 1 except maybe the time I spent to find the right ports : midiindev 0 midiout dev 5
Hope this helps,
So do I.
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Mitchell Turner