What is the sample rate? What is the bit rate? Creative USB sound cards have issues with OS X and volume sliders. Does the volume slider work?
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In OSX Mavericks the volume knob works as well as clicking to mute without installing the software package.
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Subject: Re: Y. Callewaert commented on your answer to the question "Being a Mac user, will this camera work with my Mac and iMovie program?"if you want a sample from the camera, you can go to facebook's Hot SpringsJazz Society and look at the u-tube videos of our Vocal-Rama event .... all6 or so of the u=tubes were taken by the camera and attached mic. Theacoustics in the Garvan Gardens Chapel aren't the best, but I thought thesounds came through reasonably well....Dave
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This should work being as it is just a USB port. HOWEVER it is not: NOTE: this sound card is not compatible with Mac systems. from the details
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Because Apple connector has audio as part of its spec, USB does not. You could try an external DAC if it means that much to you, and some Samsung units support a special cable with audio out from the USB plug.
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I had problems with the one I purchased, then found out that there is no product support at Numark for this unit. I sent mine back. If you can determine the bit rate of your onboard sound device, and it's 24bit, you won't find anything better under $300. I have a Soundblaster Xfi HD model SB1240 external USB sound card for my laptop (which has a 16bit sound device) and am very happy with it.
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I hooked it up to my iMac and went to the hardware controls where I'd expect to see the device show up under sound devices and it wasn't there. My guess is it bluetooth only, and the mini USB plug is for charging only, not audio input. Also noted a small tag on the included USB wire that says "For Charging Only".
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I don't know. I found this program more difficult to use that the one I had before - "Creative Media Source". I went back to it. It is on my Wiin XP computer and came with the sound card, and I cannot find any place to buy it. Now that XP is no longer supported, I am using the old computer off-line, just for for copying my old recordings, and off-line activities, etc. That way I can use the Creative Media Source for my sound work.
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The music is saved internally, I'm guessing on some sort of chip. No USB, or HDMI on the model I have. It has MIDI and 1/4 audio outputs. You can plug a microphone into it but I didn't see anything in the manual about vocal effects.
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Yes it is definitely Mac compatible, all the way to the latest version of OS X, 10.10, Yosemite. You can use the free program Audacity, which works fine. There are also probably a dozen other audio recording apps in the App Store that you could use. Many of them recognize USB sources like this cassette device, and some of them are free. I prefer to use Audio Hijack Pro (it's not in the App Store). It's not free, but has some advantages. See my review for details.
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If you're on Windows 8/8.1 good luck! They don't have signed drivers and their promise of releasing them months ago has gone no where. I returned this great unit in favor of the fiio x5. If on Windows 8, you can try the workaround by starting windows 'ignoring driver signatures', but it's flaky doesn't stick, may crash your PC...and if it 'does' work...you only get 16 bit / 44k sample rate (same as CD quality). Too bad for such a great device :(
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Hey Adam! I have done a bit of "digital audio recording" myself on Logic Express 9. I have managed to do this on an early 2008 white macbook (2.1GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1GB RAM, and a 120 GB 5400 rpm). I ran into a few problems with the hard drive being to slow and the application crashing because I didn't have enough RAM. Though I never ran into problems with the processor, and there is a reason for this. Recording software doesn't rely on the processor as much as it does the RAM and hard disk speed. A 2.4 GHz i5 is plenty for your needs. The things you should pay attention to are RAM, which this computer has 4 GB of (unless you are recording/mixing more than 7 or 8 tracks this will be plenty). It is expandable to 16 gb, which is probably enough RAM to handle time travel. And the hard drive speed...which if you manage your computers files well, and don't let it get all bogged down like a ...*gulp* WinDoWs ComPuTRe...then you will be ok ;). Basically what im getting at is that the i5 model will work just fine n' dandy, and as for the i7? You would just be buying a higher capacity, graphically faster (video games, videos, making shapes with the mouse pointer, the list goes on) laptop that has a better resale value. Hope this helped. -Andy
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No problems what so ever with audio. It just may be a glitch. It happens. Good luck!
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to the person that mentioned their sound card.... i don't know what kind of mac you have but i 've been having this problem with headsets and my g5 late 2005 for some reason macs don't always support the mic on pc compatible headsets etc so i was told by mac support to either buy an imic that would convert the mic and sound plugs into a usb headset or better yet to go to the website for mac dictate or the software that mac made previously to recognize voice and buy one of their certified mics at least then you know that it will work with other mac applications that really do need a sensitive mic. I hope it helped i just had the problem and am again trying to solve it now that i have rosetta. I tried the imic and it still didn't work but i could have bought a better headset to go with the imic and maybe that would have worked.
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I'm on a Mac so no. However, Peachtree support was great when I had a question. The DAC offers such amazing sound for the price so any short-lived driver hurdles would be worth it.
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ah, mine never worked with my sounddock either, and I don't have anything else to test it on. I've had it almost a year and it's just been sitting around. it's too bad.
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I run out of the Main Outs into my Lexicon Alpha USB Interface. I have had multiple boards with USB cards built in but they all really suck as USB Sound Interfaces. Love the way the Lexicon Alpha works and the recorded sound it sooooo much better. That is my solution. Even you can get the Alpha pretty cheap and it will far out perform build in USB interfaces.
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Make sure to check the sound input/output on your Mac. I had the same issue and it turned out the input/output was wrong.