Hi,
I am new to garageband, and don't have much expertise. I am using the m-audio firewire solo interface with Garageband2 on an ibook with mac osx10.3.7 (or whatever the latest one is). I am monitoring sound with headphones in the jack on the interface. My problem is, I can only get sound on the left headphone. In the GB preferences I have selected the firewire solo as the audio in and the audio out. On the track details I have selected channels 1 and 2 (stereo)--I am recoding with a condensor mic. I have tried fidling around with the settings on the mixer in the m-audio firewire control panel window but can't get sound out of anything other than the left side. What am I doing wrong? I am sure I am making some simple rookie mistake. I would greatly appreciate any feedback.
Thank you,
--Lowfly

Please help!

I've recently bought M-audio's Firewire SOLO and when recording through the balanced guitarr input with a mono cable (using Garageband on a 15" PB) the software only register and record "sound" on one channel, I can only hear what I've recorded through one speaker.

Basically, I would like the mono signal to "sound" and be recorded as a stereo signal. I'm guessing this is a soundcard issue and I think I need to route the input signal in some way in order to make this happen. Does anyone know how this is done. Would be very happy for some input on this issue. The manual provided by m-audio doesn't help at all.....crap.

Cheers

/wogel

I'm not shure where your problem is, but here are some pointers.
When creating a new track (audio) be shure to choose stereo at that time. If you have already done so and have the problem, you will need to choose mono. This will put the audio signal (originally mono) across left to right equally. Also check your prefs for the software that came with the Solo.

What you need to do is go into you Firewire Solo Prefrences and make sure that 'Output 1-2' is selected on both channels. This should give you both L + R....I had the same problem on my 'solo'

cool....I'll see if I can find that selection criteria, can't remember that I've seen it before. Hopefully it'll work.

Thanx a bunch


//wogel

Ok, so far I haven't found "Output 1-2". Bluemover, do you think you can give me more details on where to find this stuff. I guess you're talking about theFirewire Solo control panel and not the software like GB or Logic? I would be really super greatful, frustrated now.....why can't they make soundcards that works from start?

//wogel

OK,

Go into your M-Audio Firewire Control panel and make sure the hardware tab is selected. You will see 4 faders, make sure Out 1-2 is selected on all of them.

Go into Audio Midi set up (applications/utilities) and make sure Firewire Solo is selected for all output and input.

If this doen't change anything try reinstalling the driver for 'Solo'

Unfortunately I'm a Logic user so I'mm really sure abot Garageband preferences, but see if any of the above works and let me know

I am experiencing this same problem Did you ever get a reply? For me, I can get guitar on one headphone (or speaker) and vocals on the other headphone (or speaker).

Also, my software is missing the "output" tab, is yours?

Did this problem get resolved? I am having the same problems. I can only get audio from one earphone or the other... The vocals on one and the guitar on the other. Would be nice to just have both guitar and vocals balanced on both ears.

Also, the software i downloaded does not have the "output" tab that others mentioned. I only have "mixer", "Hardware" and "about".

I don't have 4 Pan knobs in my hardware Tab either.

Last Panther to date is 10.3.9 if you did all updates, there are also 2 security updates on top of this at least (from memory).

I have some recollection wich tells me that it's normal such mono left monitoring on mono source direct thru the interface. Some other M-audio hardware did it too before.

As it's a recollection, it's not in marble, any other input someone?

BTW i've merged both threads

Many thanks for all the answers.
I haven't had the time to try the suggested soultions yet, to busy at work. I'll try as soon as possible. Just bought Logic Express so I wont put much effort on solving the problem in Garage Band.

However, I don't believe I have the output tab in the M-Audio control panel either. What does this mean? I'm almost 100% sure I have the latest driver.

//wogel