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[letti001]

Okay Thomas, I have a new one. I just re-formatted my hard dirve and re-installed my WinXP OS. I left my cheap Creative LIVE sound card, but I added an external sound card..the Creative XMOD. The sound is much better with the new card, but AOMRecord does not pick up the sound. The song info and such come across without a problem. The AOMReord software is having an effect also, since when I close the program the volume changes.  The recording level statistic is all gray.

The AOMRecord program recognizes the sound card since it shows up as one of the options for the input device.

Thank you for your help.

Sal

[Thomas]

Sal,

Did you you try all the manual settings as described in the help?

BTW, I use an external card from Creative, too. I record from the WAVE/MIDI/CD input (Select box checked, Volume pulled up).

Thomas

[letti001]

I will play around with it.  I have not investigated the manual settings to great detail, but I will do  and let you know....thank you.

[letti001]

I am not sure I can figure out the problem.

When I open up the mixer for the sound in order to do this manually, there is no window for recording. Then I disconnected the XMod and did the same mixer opening for the native sound card and the recording window opened up. Also, when the XMod is installed and I opened the properties and looked at the MIDI music playback, the XMod was not there...it was not even a choice, only the existing SBLive! sound card.  

I must be missing something. There is sound for sure, but I am unable to get the right settings that AOMRecord can see.

It was my thought that this device would give me better music. Not that the XMod does not have sound recording monitoring ability according to the manual. I wonder if the recording monitoring ability is waht the AOMRecord software uses in order to record.

Thank you.

Sal

[Thomas]

This sounds very strange to me. It should be a possible to open a Recording or Capture window for this soundcard, too. If not, there is no chance to record from that card. If you are familiar with Windows' Remote Assistance I could eventually have a look at your computer.

You could try some other drivers, too. BTW, what Windows are you using? Is it Vista and could it have something to do with the new security features (DRM) built into Vista?

Let me know.

Thomas

[Thomas]

I just had a look at this device on Creative's website. OK, it's getting a bit clearer now:

This device is not a sound card as we are used to. In fact it modifies the sound data. Because it doesn't loop back what it creates there is probably no chance to record the modified sound. But t should be possible to record what goes into the device. Anyway, this would be exactly the same what you recorded with your original sound card.

If this device doesn't have a capture controller as I mentioned earlier there is probably no way to record while you are listening with it. In this case you only could record the old way and play this later using the new device.

HTH

Thomas

[letti001]

Thank you for confirming my suspicions. It is touted as a sound card, but it is just a firmware device to manipulate sound. Not a true sound card.

I will send it back to Creative.

By the way, which Creative external sound card do you have?

What do you think of the M-Audio external firewire deivce?

Sal

[Thomas]

Hi Sal,

I don't know if the XMOD does what it promises. I have diffuculties to imagine that you get something better out than you put in ;-).

I use a Dell D400 Notebook as my main machine for almost everything (including software development). In my office I connect it to an external monitor and keyboard. The sound card I use is a Creative Sound Blaster MP3+. I am very satisfied with this configuration.

Using AOMrecord there is definitely no quality loss using any external card. I only found out that with some built in cards (like the on board stuff on some motherboards) there very often is some noise where silence should be.

I don't know anything about the M-Audio device.

HTH

Have a nice sunday (whatever is left over from it ;-) )

Thomas

[Thomas]

One more note:

To keep my recordings free from any external influence I always adjust the player's equalizer to it's zero position. To influence the sound I hear I use Creative's Grafik Equalizer which comes with the cards). This does not have any influence on the recorded data. Additionally this is a way to be able to influence sound that is heard with a player that has no equalizer (like the AOL player).

Again: Good night

Thomas

[letti001]

Gute Nacht und danken Ihnen

Sal

(I hope I said that right!?)