Garageband And Digi 002, will they work together? Options

[electricblacksle...]

hi i know the answer to my problem is probably rightin front of my nose, but i can't seem to get garageband and my digi 002 to work together. i have the core audio driver but it will not recognize that the digi is connected to my iMac g5. i don't get it what is wrong?

thanks.

paul.

[deaconblue]

hey Paul,

When you say

i can't seem to get garageband and my digi 002 to work together

What do you mean specifically? Also, can the system recognize the 002 in the sound prefs pane? If so, make sure that GB is set to use the digi 002 in the GB prefernces under "Audio/MIDI" setup. Check your Audio Output and Audio Input pull downs and make sure the 002 shows up.

Also, is the 002 recognized by the Audio MIDI set up utility in your Utilies Folder?

post back with any and all results.

peace

[electricblacksle...]

yeah i have all that stuff. My problem is that it seems as if there is no sound from the mic through the digi in GB. GB recognizes the multiple tracks and everything but there is no signal.

thanks.

paul.

This post has been edited by electricblacksleep: Tue 3 Apr 2007, 00:53

[electricblacksle...]

alright here is my newest problem. i have sound but it is extremely delayed and quiet. i need to figure out a way to turn up the volume in the digi's mixer section. any help would be great.

thanks.

paul.

[electricblacksle...]

another question: do i want the digi in "standby" mode, "pro tools" mode, or "stand alone" mode when using garage band?

[deaconblue]

Paul,

May be beating a dead horse here, but make sure this has been done first:

To make Digi hardware available to GarageBand, do the following:
Start the Digidesign CoreAudio Setup application
Click the Supported Applications button in the resulting Digidesign CoreAudio Setup window
Click the [Add New Application] button in the window that appears
Navigate to the [GarageBand] application, and click Choose.
Your Digi hardware will now be available from the [Audio/MIDI] tab within GarageBand's Preferences window

From what I can tell, stand alone is the mode to use when the 002 is being treated as an external mixer. Protools mode should be setting the 002 as a DAW interface and standby should be 'in sleep' mode.

Given that, I would assume Pro Tools mode to be correct for this application.

To hear audio recorded into a Pro Tools session, you will need to connect headphones or an external sound system (such as powered monitors or a home stereo) to Digi 002 or Digi 002 Rack. Sound from Digi 002 and Digi 002 Rack cannot be played through your computer’s speakers or your computer’s sound output.

For the latency issues, the 002 manual has the following Pro-Tools specific information:

Controlling Delay (Latency) During Monitoring

Pro Tools LE with Digi 002 or Digi 002 Rack uses your computer for all audio processing, play-
back, and recording. This causes a small amount of audio delay, or latency.

Latency is most obvious when monitoring during recording. You may hear this as a slight de-
lay between when you produce the sound and when you hear the sound through the speakers
or headphones.

Pro Tools LE for Digi 002 and Digi 002 Rack systems includes Low Latency Monitoring. This
feature allows you to use a built-in mixer in the Digi 002 unit or Digi 002 Rack unit when re-
cording or monitoring to lessen the effect of latency.

To use Low Latency Monitoring, tracks must be record-enabled, assigned to an actual audio in-
put (not a bus), and assigned to outputs 1 or 2. To use Low Latency Monitoring while recording:

1 Launch Pro Tools and set up a session. See “Recording a Pro Tools Session” on page 8 of the 002 Basics Guide pdf.

2 Select Options > Low Latency Monitoring. When Low Latency Monitoring is enabled, any
plug-ins and sends assigned to record-enabled tracks (routed to Outputs 1–2) are automatically
bypassed, and must remain bypassed. Also, these tracks will not register on meters for Mas-
ter Faders.

Since GarageBand does not have this type of setting you may need to adjust the number of real instruments being assigned. You can use the GarageBand help feature to determine some of the immeidate settings changes to make in GB to optimize your system.

To understand the issue on your set up a bit better you'd need to offer up some additional information:

What iMac G5 do you have (speed, RAM, HDD config. etc)?
What OS are you running?
Which version of GarageBand are you using?
What are you recording? (A mic input? An instrument? Line level? etc.; If it is a Mic, make sure that phantom power is turned on)


For more info on setting up the 002, check the 002 Basics Guide.pdf.

Beyond that, give a bit more info so we can understand what is happening in your set up.

peace.

[electricblacksle...]

Paul,

May be beating a dead horse here, but make sure this has been done first:

To make Digi hardware available to GarageBand, do the following:
Start the Digidesign CoreAudio Setup application
Click the Supported Applications button in the resulting Digidesign CoreAudio Setup window
Click the [Add New Application] button in the window that appears
Navigate to the [GarageBand] application, and click Choose.
Your Digi hardware will now be available from the [Audio/MIDI] tab within GarageBand's Preferences window

i can't seem to find this. i opened the digi coreaudio drive manager, and the only buttons are HW setup prefs connect and quit. in the Hw setup window there is not supported applications dropdown or anything that talks about supported applications.
i have an imac G5 running OSx 10.3.9 i am running garageband 2 (i believe it came with the ilife 06 bundle) and i am attempting to record live drums (so mic inputs phantom is on) and eventually keyboards at line level.

thanks.

[electricblacksle...]

ok here is a new problem, i have sound and all and the latency is good but i was just recording and in the middle of the measure i got a feedback loop and the digi lost connection and made some clicking noises. i think that the hardware might be damaged in some way. any advice?

[mortalengines]

I don't know if this would apply to the core audio portion of PT hardware but I know that PT is not exactly compatible with 10.3.9. It is also starting to sound like you may want to get on PTs forum as well to see if anyone has had a similar problem.