monitoring problem adobe audition cs6.0 adat inputs

[Guest]

Hello,

I am using adobe audition cs6.0 as a DAW. When in coming tracks are armed via

1-8 adat inputs, only choice for master output is 1-8 adat out. My lenovo g50

laptop has integrated soundcard which is using MME drive. Can not make

usbstreamer b specific ASIO drive communicate with laptop integrated audiocard.

I can see visually incoming adat channel 1-8 and master L+R meter is dancing

nice, but no way to choose audible masterout for laptop headphones output.

Any ideas?

do I need breakout box/ external audiocard?

antti

[ryclark]

Unfortunately the ASIO drivers offered by your ADAT device and needed by Audition will only allow the use of one audio interface at a time. This is because the ASIO standard drivers completely bypass the Windows operating system Sound channels. This allows them to give you better quality, low latency audio for recording with your DAW.

So, basically, you need to monitor Audition's output with the same device that you are recording from. What ADAT interface are you using to get audio into your laptop?

[Guest]

Hello!

my setup is following:

yamaha aw2816 standalone mixer / work station + adat card in slot. -> miniDSP

usbstreamerB unit(optical cable between those units) and from usbstreamer usb

outout to my lenovo g50 laptop usb port.

I may use adat for making backups on the fly from aw2816 and another use would

be when recording via aw2816 to laptop or record from ada8000 output to laptop.

is there point of leaving usbstreamer away from signalchain and get external

soundcard to laptop with adat input option?

i have used fostex 1624 recorder and rme hammerfall 9652 soundcard via adat and

I was able to monitor incoming adat channel. it was desktop computer.

antti

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[ryclark]

Normally in this type of use you would do your headphone monitoring via the mixer. In your case this would mean routing back via the USB ADAT converter into the AW2816 and listen on it's headphone output. This would be the same for any external mixer feeding Audition via an audio interface (if it isn't built in to the mixer).

So yes you should be able to route Audition's output to a pair of the ADAT return channels to monitor from the mixer. But part of the problem is the USB ADAT streamer which doesn't have any built in monitoring of it's own.

[Guest]

Hello,

okay, how about on adobe audition, do I set channel slides to unity ( to zero

point)

when visually watch signal flow to tracks.

my concern is if tracks hits too hard when recorded to laptop with adobe.

or should I just trust yamaha monitoring and audio inputlevels from preamps?

antti

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[ryclark]

Any level controls within Audition only affect the output levels. Audition records what ever is sent it by the audio interface. There is no input level control on the computer. So all the levels are set on the Yamaha mixer. And those levels should be exactly the same arriving in Audition, since they are always in the digital domain once the individual input gain controls have been set appropriately on the Yamaha.

[Guest]

hello,

Thanks for answers!

Have to try and learn new way of thinking signalflow and monitoring!

antti

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[SteveG_AudioMasters_]

If you are using ASIO at all, you can only use one physical device with it. That's part of the ASIO spec. And there are no ASIO drivers for any internal laptop sound devices that I'm aware of. Which means that your only sensible option is to use an external ASIO device that has appropriate inputs and outputs, and not just ASIO ones. The alternative would be to find a box that will convert ADAT feeds into analog ones, and I'm not sure how easy that's going to be these days. Behringer used to make one, but I can't see it in their current range, unfortunately.

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