Edit function useless?

fladd · Post by **fladd** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 3:12 am

Hi there!

Is it possible, that the Edit function ist quite useless? I mean, when I am in Live no other Programm kann play any audio due to the ASIO driver (which I think is everyone using).
So I have to quit Live before I can edit something in an external editor!
Is there maybe a shortcut for disabling audio in Live?
Is there any ther solution?

thanks
fladd

krushing · Post by **krushing** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 12:51 pm

This would be nice. I'm not sure how easy it would be to switch driver allocation to another program, but it's true that it is pretty useless right as of now...

rikhyray · Post by **rikhyray** » Mon Nov 01, 2004 4:50 pm

I dont need to hear always - if I have to normalise or boost gain a bit, if so I can use the computers internal sound, set in preferences of Wavelab. So usefullness depend on user

djod · Post by **djod** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 12:01 am

use drectx or mme for your audio editor

fladd · Post by **fladd** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 12:06 am

I can't do this in Audacity, I just can choose the soundcard there, and then it says, that it's already in use...

fladd

kovacs · Post by **kovacs** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 12:35 am

I have no problems using Audacity with Ableton Live. Live says "This will stop Audio. Proceed?" I have sound in Audacity. Remember to set up the routing in the preferences in Audacity.

fladd · Post by **fladd** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 3:44 am

when clicking on the edit button audacity opens, without live asking me anything. What do you mean with routing? I have Microsoft Soundmapper - Output selected, alternativly I could choose Sigmatel Audio, but this doesn't change anything.
Any Ideas?

thanks
fladd

bensuthers · Post by **bensuthers** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 4:00 am

no isses bias peak 4 <> ableton 4.

kovacs · Post by **kovacs** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 6:49 am

fladd wrote:when clicking on the edit button audacity opens, without live asking me anything.

Hm. You don't say which version of Live you're using but I have no problems with this in 4.0.x.

fladd wrote:What do you mean with routing? I have Microsoft Soundmapper - Output selected, alternativly I could choose Sigmatel Audio, but this doesn't change anything.

Yes, that is routing. Choose your soundcard here. Also make sure you are using the ASIO drivers for your soundcard in both apps Live.

You say you assume everyone is using ASIO - but are you 100% you are using it yourself? You could have it installed yet have enabled a different driver.

"Sigmatel audio" - that's an integrated sound chip, right? So you might need the ASIO4ALL drivers.

BTW - I do not get sound with Audacity if I don't tell it which sound card to use.

fladd · Post by **fladd** » Tue Nov 02, 2004 2:48 pm

Yeah, it's Live 4. I can't chosse ASIO in Audacity, only that Soundmapper and the Sigmatel Audio.
In Live Asio4All is active.
Which version of Audacity do you have? Maybe there's a new one.

fladd

fladd · Post by **fladd** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 1:30 am

The strange thing is, when using SoundEngineFree as editor, the sample in Live is "offline", which is not the case in Audacity!
But in SEFree it says then, that it doesn't support the format, which is strange, because it is a wav file.

Any ideas?

thanks
fladd

fladd · Post by **fladd** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 1:35 am

Sorry, it's offline in Audacity, too, but still doesn't work!

kovacs · Post by **kovacs** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 7:04 pm

Just out of curiosity - have you tried another app? Download a demo of, say, Zero-X BeatSlicer and see if it works there. Maybe there is a problem with the Audacity installation on your PC.

geoffroy · Post by **geoffroy** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 10:21 pm

I guess it's more a pb of your audio drivers not being "multiclient", which means two applications can't use the audio interface at the same time.

What's your audio interface ?

fladd · Post by **fladd** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 11:43 pm

I am using the onboard chip of my laptop at the moment. It is a sigmatel audio.

fladd