I've had this for a while and I finally started using it a few weeks ago. Works awesome for recording/Guitar Rig, etc but when it comes to jamming along to some tunes via Guitar Rig and windows media player, winamp or whatever, I can only get sound from one program and not the other. For example, if I have Guitar Rig going and then I open winamp, I only get audio from Guitar Rig and no sound from winamp(whichever is started first only works).
The interface is a Lexicon Alpha. Nothing fancy.
I guess the Lexicon basically has taken over for my sound card. I have my speakers running out of the Lexicon and tried moving them to the sound card and no dice. Any suggestions?
I also had all that ASIO drivers and stuff previously installed... could that be part of the problem?
What's happening is that the lexicon isn't able to run both asio and wdm simultaneously. You could try to run guitar rig in wdm mode, but you'll get hideous latencies that way.
What I used to do was use the headphone out on my old Toneport, and send that to one of these, which ran my headphones and my monitors. Not ideal, but it worked.
Luckily I have an onboard soundcard with separate speakers that I run all computer sounds through. So my impact twin handles asio only through my rokit monitors.
This way I can run winamp or whatever to jam along with music.
Luckily I have an onboard soundcard with separate speakers that I run all computer sounds through. So my impact twin handles asio only through my rokit monitors.
This way I can run winamp or whatever to jam along with music.
I've actually no idea if a Mac operates differently. I have the 828, and it handles in/out (hehe, handles the in/out..) as well as my monitors on it's own, so I can track and monitor at the same time.
I always had the same issue Donnie's having with Windows unless I did some oddball cabling voodoo. My device (pod, etc) would eat the line-in, and ASIO wouldn't let me monitor using my onboard sound card. WDM would be unusably laggy.
I know, kitten. Don't get your panties in a wad. :wub:
I'm sure if I spent a few extra $$$ on a better interface I'd be good to go but the one I have was a gift and I just want to use it to it's full potential and not be all "you got me a piece of crap, bitch!" :lol:
:lol: Well I don't think it's the interface, I think that's just how Windows is. I always, always, always had that problem, with a bunch of different interfaces.
You tried? Did you specify which soundcard to use? You have to set the lexi to be the primary soundcard in the control panel, or else winamp or whatever program you're using won't make a sound.
Won't work with one soundcard. Most interfaces can't run asio and wdm at the same time. And asio is can only run one program at a time. So unless you import the track you want to play along with into Cubase, (<- never thought about that one before) you're out of luck.
Hmm, you guys have considerably better google-Fu. I think I remember reading about a vst plugin that can play mp3 files directly in Cubase. That would be the easiest solution.
Ooooor, just play the mp3 files in the tape deck in GR
Hmm, you guys have considerably better google-Fu. I think I remember reading about a vst plugin that can play mp3 files directly in Cubase. That would be the easiest solution.
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