kona 3 no sound output

[Craig Thomas quinlan]

thanks
but i want to know
why i can`t plug rca from breakout box to BX5AS directly
why i want to mixer between them ?

No one’s saying you can’t. This is just how most people are set up. I suggested bypassing the mixer (which I see now that you aren’t using) and going straight from the rca analog outs to the ins of the BX5A’s (which yes, to answer your question, are analog).

[Craig Thomas quinlan]

(And to anyone reading these posts, they’re all out of order, at least on my end.)

[Mark Pettijohn]

Ahmed,
I experienced the same thing with either my digibeta deck or my betasp deck when capturing with my Kona 3. I found that if you disengage the Log and Capture command (command F8) after capturing video and audio, the audio was restored immediately. Without putting the window away, I couldn’t hear anything coming from the viewer or canvas. Don’t know if that’s the way its supposed to work but it keeps the workflow going.
Mark

[Bob Zelin]

Ahmed –

Hello, how are you.
step 1. close FCP
step 2. plug AJA K3 box RCA plugs (NOT THE XLR’s) into your M-Audio BX5A speakers. Make sure you have the correct, working cables to do this. (you will be sorry that you don’t have a mixer, once you get this working).
step 3. Go to System Preferences/Sound/Output, and select Kona as the output. Make sure the volume is up on the menu slider. Click on a sound. Do you hear it (like a chirp). If not, you are wasting your time going any further.
step 4. close System PReferences
step 5. Open the AJA Control Panel
step 6. select input tab, select Video SDI 1, select audio “embedded channels 1-8”.
step 7. select the CONTROL tab in the AJA Control panel
step 8 – change it to INPUT PASSTHROUGH. (change it back when we are done to test pattern)
step 9 – plug in your Digi beta VTR SDI Out 1 into the AJA K3 box HD IN 1.
step 10 – play a tape in your Digi beta VTR that has audio on it.
step 11 – do you hear any audio ?

If you do, your K3 box and Kona are working properly. If you do not, then either your K3 box is bad, your cables between the K3 and Kona 3 are bad, or the Kona 3 itself is bad.

I will give you more suggestions once you try all of this.

You should really test those RCA-XLR cables with something else (like a CD player, or home stereo system, or VHS or DVD player) to make sure you can get sound from those cables into the BX5A speakers.
Once this is done, and the cables work, plug the cables into your K3 box RCA audio outputs, and do the tests I have outlined above.

BobZelin