Audio Interface with Adobe Audition 1.5

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May 10, 2020
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I'm using Adobe Audition 1.5 with Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 interface. I can set the input to Scarlett OR output to scarlett and it works perfectly but if I set both input and output to the Scarlett Adobe freezes and gives an error saying another program may be using the same device, but there is no other program running. This means that I can't use it for recording. I have to use my stand alone multitracker and then play each track in turn into adobe audition which is very time consuming.

Is there a way around this problem or is this just a limitation of this old version of Adobe Audition?

Any help will be much appreciated.

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Richard M Knight

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Is it possible to monitor the vocal direct without latency using the interface but have 100% wet effects from the audition track. this will have some delay but often you add predelay to the reverb anyway.

SteveG_AudioMasters_

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That's true - delayed reverb is the only effect that this works with though, and you still have to be careful about how you set it up.

SteveG_AudioMasters_

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Which driver are you attempting to use? You should have a choice of two I think and it's worth trying both. I can't see any reason why it wouldn't work, although if it doesn't, it's likely to be a combination of the OS and driver preventing it, I think - Audition 1.5 has always been perfectly happy to use a single device for input and output.

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PaukelAuthor

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Thanks for your reply Steve. I hadn't thought about drivers because Windows recognised it automatically but I have now downloaded the driver from the Focusrite website and it has cured the problem to a degree. I can now use the Scarlett for both in and out but I can only hear what I'm recording if I set it to direct monitoring which means I hear what I'm singing before it goes into the computer.

You see what I'm trying to achieve is to be able to hear effects when I'm singing but have it recorded dry. I thought I could do this by arming two tracks and having effects on one but I don't seem to be able to monitor what's being recorded. I've watched a lot of Youtube videos on recording with a usb interface and a computer but none of them have explained how to have effects while recording but to have the track recorded dry. This seems to me to be an essential part of a recording set up.

SteveG_AudioMasters_

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But then you'd be hearing reverb on the backing track as well which wouldn't be good. I'm guessing you'd have to send a separate feed from each track and only put the vocal through the reverb unit and then put them through another mixer before the head phones. I'm sure those big studio mixers would have that facility but my wee mixer wouldn't.

I think I'll just stick with my wee setup.

Thanks again for your help. Very interesting.

No, you don't get reverb on the backing track. All feeds can be isolated, so that the backing track is fed clean, and only the foldback channel has the reverb. It works fine, honestly - I still have a small reverb unit that will do this if necessary. The reverb doesn't get recorded at all.

Even small mixers often have foldback channels, and that's all you need to set this up. Your problem is that the 2i2 isn't a mixer!

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