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  Audio without video

  Posted by David Perry on January 27, 2008 at 5:15 pm

  Hi,

  Is it possible to use the IO HD as a stand alone audio device without video? Sometimes I record concerts without video and it would allow me to use hte IO HD firewire interface into my Mac Book Pro.

  Thanks,

  David Perry

  David Perry replied 18 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Jeremy Garchow

  January 28, 2008 at 6:07 pm

  Are you going to record in FCP? i haven’t tried audio only with the ioHD yet but sometimes FCP likes to see a video signal even if you aren’t recording it. ANy video signal will do such as a DVD player or camera. As long as you a re feeding video to it, it won’t matter what it is. Now, that might not be true anymore but it’s the way it used to be.

  Jeremy
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  Carsten Orlt

  January 28, 2008 at 10:40 pm

  Best to use the ioHD with Soundtrack for audio only.
  Then again the latency is quite big while monitoring.
  It works but I haven’t really put it through its paces yet.
  I needed to record a quick VO but the delay drove me mad so I switch to the internal audio in/out of my powerbook for the time being.
  So yes it works audio only, but you may have to figure out a good workflow first.

  Carsten
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  David Perry

  February 19, 2008 at 12:16 pm

  Thank you all,

  I finally did get it to work as a stand alone firewire interface with Logic 8. It took some manipulation but I got 8 channels of AES working. Now I will try the 4 channels of line inputs to hear the quality of the converters.

  David Perry
  Carmen Productions

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