Members mdanman Posted April 21, 2007 Members Share Posted April 21, 2007 I know this is the wrong forum, but I need an answer as soon as possible. I already tried to post there and haven't gotten a response. I bought a Behringer FCA202 Firewire sound card and a Phonic Firefly 302 Firewire card. Neither of them seem to work with Cool Edit Pro 2.1 in terms of direct monitoring. I have using multiple USB, PCI, and PCMCIA cards with Cool Edit Pro and all have worked flawlessly. This is the first time I am using firewire cards and I cant seem to get any play back from my monitors or headphones by directly connecting to the headphone outs on the firewire cards. I am trying to record a guitar or synth through my line in and it picks up the sound when i record it in Cool Edit Pro but i cant actually hear what im playing throuigh the monitors or headphones. i have a really strong signal as well, so I know that is not the issue. But i need to know what im playing..any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Yoozer Posted April 21, 2007 Members Share Posted April 21, 2007 This will sound really stupid, but for some dark reason Windows may throw a firewall over the 1394 (Firewire) connections. What happens if you remove that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mdanman Posted April 21, 2007 Author Members Share Posted April 21, 2007 my firewall is off, hmmm, any other suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paolo Di Nicolantonio Posted April 21, 2007 Members Share Posted April 21, 2007 It's probably a setting on the control panel of your firewire cards... I am not familiar with the ones you have, but I have an M-Audio Firewire 1814, and for some reason the default install doesn't route the output bus to the mixer, you have to turn it on yourself... Do you have a control panel on your cards? If yes, try to see if there is a switch to route audio to LR, or headphones... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mdanman Posted April 21, 2007 Author Members Share Posted April 21, 2007 I think that neither of these external firewire soundcards can do direct monitoring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gus Lozada Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 What is the driver you are using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gus Lozada Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 I think that neither of these external firewire soundcards can do direct monitoring. I have actually read the manual of the behringer unit... and they do not mention anything about monitoring or about that capability of the device. Weird. There is a nice "simple diagram" of the connections (pages 18 and 19) and it looks like everything goes straight from the input to the output but I saw no option to select/deselect it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paolo Di Nicolantonio Posted April 21, 2007 Members Share Posted April 21, 2007 I think that neither of these external firewire soundcards can do direct monitoring. Ugh. Sell both in favor of a full-featured one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gus Lozada Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 I think that neither of these external firewire soundcards can do direct monitoring. If you can confirm that, then you'll have the answer to the problem. However you still can listen to the audio after it is processed by the computer, just enable monitoring of the audio in the track in Cool Edit. You will listen the audio signal once it was digitalized and recorded with the latency your system is delivering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mdanman Posted April 21, 2007 Author Members Share Posted April 21, 2007 very strange, I have never had a sound card that don't have direct monitoring, back to the store! thanks for the input! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gus Lozada Posted April 21, 2007 Share Posted April 21, 2007 very strange, I have never had a sound card that don't have direct monitoring, back to the store! thanks for the input! I had a couple of them.... like that old M-Audio Audiophile USB. But I did what I mentioned abouve, listening to the tracks after they were processed. To me, that is the way to do it always, anyway, since I can know the actual response of the system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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