Garageband optical audio

April 22, 2009 1:39 PM

Using optical audio input on Macbookpro 15" and Edirol m10dx, but when I open garage band and arm the tracks it arms for .5 seconds ... then disarms.

Other programs -Reaper, AudioHijackpro, Audacity all recognize the optical audio fine. Any suggestions much appreciated. Thanks MetaFilter.

posted by acro to Media & Arts (4 answers total)

Is it possible that you have some other app, say like Airfoil, camping on the soundcard? Shutting off the arming sounds to me like a classic "device in use" problem.
posted by rhizome at 3:35 PM on April 22, 2009

hippybear: arming a track is what you do to prepare and mark it for recording (ie. when you have multiple tracks, and will want to record to some set of them, while playing back others).
posted by idiopath at 5:34 PM on April 22, 2009

Response by poster: Only Garageband is showing up in the Force quit menu.
posted by acro at 7:59 PM on April 22, 2009

Response by poster: Thanks for the suggestions so far everyone.. I'm running Garageband '08 if that helps. Solid body aluminum mac book pro.
posted by acro at 10:01 AM on April 23, 2009