Maudio Firewire Solo?

lightman · Post by **lightman** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 12:51 pm

Hi all,
I recently bought an maudio firewire solo interface, which supposedly comes with a copy of ableton live lite. I did not seem to receive any software other than drivers and manual. the only place i can find mention of bundled software is maudios site.

Wheres my software dude!!!

anyone have similar experiences>

Sales Dude McBoob · Post by **Sales Dude McBoob** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 4:41 pm

Contact the store/salesdude that sold it to you, and also contact M-Audio. I'm sure someone can get you set-up. There are so many copies of Live Lite floating around it's only a matter of time before one drops out of my cereal box in the morning.

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 5:02 pm

Mine didn't either, and I don't think it was advertised as such... the bigger M-Audio cards do though.

lightman · Post by **lightman** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 6:32 pm

as you said, someone is sending me one.

it is advertised on the maudio site, but not anywhere else that i can find. Possibly a typo?

PS: incidently, do you know if its possible to assign the headphone out?

Sales Dude McBoob · Post by **Sales Dude McBoob** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 7:03 pm

There are so many copies of Live Lite floating around it's only a matter of time before one drops out of my cereal box in the morning.

I'd figured with all the sharp wits around here someone would have made the obvious quip...

"Yeah, and then you're eating serial cereal for breakfast!"

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 7:04 pm

It presents itself as four busses (two stereo) to the software, but there's only one DAC in the Solo so whichever signal you send to the analogue outs will appear at the headphone outs as well, sadly.

-Paws

lightman · Post by **lightman** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 8:08 pm

darn and blast

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 9:02 pm

My brother built a DAC for me though which I plug into the S/PDIF out on the card. Works good, sounds good. Probably not a cheap solution if you have to get an off-the-shelf one but if you're related to any engineers you might wanna give htem a shout

hansje · Post by **hansje** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 9:26 pm

Would your brother please post the schematic he used?
Yes?

lightman · Post by **lightman** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 9:28 pm

beat me to it lol

inis · Post by **inis** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 12:03 am

If you are using an apple running tiger, you can use device aggregation to make live this that the solo and your built in audio are the same card. Then you have many more options.

lightman · Post by **lightman** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 7:27 am

er please explain in more detail to me who dosent understand that kind of stuff?

jazzy · Post by **jazzy** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 8:35 am

Just to supplement. (This tip only valid if you have a minidisk or stereo amp with S/PDIF input in addition to Fireware Solo)
Objective: You want to achieve two different stereo output buses.
The analogue and S/PDIF output is two independent busses in Fireware Solo. My work around was to use an older Minidisk (or if you have a stereo amp with S/PDIF input). From the Minidisk you can use headphones or send further to a stereo amplifier. The analogue output from the Fireware Solo you can send to a guitar amp or headphones. If you play along with a tune, the guitar sound can come out of the guitar amp. (Enabling you to use all kind of guitar VST's in Live, or Live Audio-effects). You can send the tune (or earlier recording to the stereo amp.) It's easier to play along if you hear the guitar from a separate loudspeaker then mixing it all together though one output. This tip will also be useful if two persons are recording (playing together) using headphones. Then each can get a separate mix using return tracks in Live.

Jazzy

lightman · Post by **lightman** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 9:41 am

yeah, thats why i wanted to have a seperate output

i have a consumer md/cd with optical in/out (presumably i can get a converter), but i dont know if you can monitor the inputs

lightman · Post by **lightman** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 9:47 am

oops, it double posted