Dear Anyone.

I've joined this forum because there's posts here by people who've actually HEARD 0f the M-Audio Audiophile 2496!

I'm just using a notation package and plugins - Proteus (the legal free version!) Edirol Orchestral (also legally purchased) and other freebie VSTs I found on the Net.  I can hear the music I'm making perfectly. Thing is, I can't make ANY recording software hear it! No matter what I use, the 'sound file' is just a flat line.  I've tried every combination of mon. mixer/any other settings and there's several that let me hear things fine, but none that let the recording software hear anything!

Please, keep things simple because I'm dead thick as far as the science of all this goes,  how the heck do I set things up so I can record what I'm hearing? Basically, pretend you're playing an MP3 and trying to record it with Audacity. Or pretend you're playing a scale on a softsynth and trying to record it with Audacity (or anything else that's free or cheap!)

I've got half an album finished and I still can't record any of it as soundfiles :-(  Please can one of you M-Audio Audiophile experts help me out? Surely there's SOME way of doing it.

Only consumer cards have a What U Hear/Stereo Mix option, which routes the total output of the card to recording. In semi pro or pro crds you need loopback cables to achieve that, either real or virtual.

Quote from: pawelq on 2009-05-30 15:17:01

Only consumer cards have a What U Hear/Stereo Mix option, which routes the total output of the card to recording. In semi pro or pro crds you need loopback cables to achieve that, either real or virtual.

Actually, the 2496 will happily let you record its output. You just make sure it's playing through the monitor mixer, and record the output of the monitor mixer. Dead easy.


I have Windows XP. The controls will be in different places on different OSs, but they exist. So you need:


Control panel > Sounds and Audio Devices > Audio tab: I have default playback and record devices set to "M-Audio Delta AP Multi". This is the default when you first install - you can route the audio to/from either the analogue or digital IO here if you want.

Control panel> M-Audio Delta Audio> Monitor Mixer: I have Master Volume and WavOut 1/2 set to full, not muted. Everything else muted.

Then in Cool Edit Pro, I'm recording the device "M-Audio Delta AP Mon Mixer". Your software may have device selection in it somewhere, or it may pick up the device from the windows preferences, in which case set Mon Mixer as the recording device in the first step above.


...and that lets you record "what you hear" from pretty much anything.



However if your software is actually outputting MIDI, this won't work, and you really do need a physical loop-back cable, or one of the pieces of software designed to capture MIDI, rather than audio samples.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
David.