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Digital input from external device via USB?
fitbrit:
Can one input digital audio from a source for MC to apply DSP to in real-time? This would have to be via USB, I think. Someone I know is looking to play records, have them digitized on the fly and then processed by MC to go into DAC. Seems like a longwinded path, I know, but he has sound (pardon the pun) reasons.
I think he'd also need an AES to USB convertor. Assuming this hardware is in place, is this something that is possible to do in MC?
eg https://www.mutec-net.com/product_mc-12.php
mwillems:
You can do this on MC for Windows (only) in one of two ways. If the input device is ASIO compliant, you could potentially do ASIO line-in which (with some fiddling) will work with just JRiver. Otherwise you need another program to take the USB input and "play" it to the JRiver WDM driver or JRiver's WASAPI Loopback function.
So the way I used to do it is: USB turntable --> Audacity (a free recording program that will also allow you to just play an input channel in realtime --> JRiver's WDM driver set as system default --> JRiver DSP Stack --> Output to DAC. That worked perfectly, but I obviously had to set it up each time. You might be able to work out something more "automatic" if you look around.
fitbrit:
Thank you! That's some very useful info.
Manfred:
If you need AES digital input it should also be possible to use such a pci-e card (if the price is not an issue):
http://www.rme-audio.de/en/products/hdspe_aio.php?from=singlemessage%27%20and%203%3D%274%27a%3D0%27A%3D0%27%27
it has ASIO drivers, you need no conversion to usb and you must configure zone's for digital input in MC, but I have no practical experience with the card and configuring digital AES input using ASIO or MC WDM driver.
fitbrit:
Thanks, Manfred. We do not use the PCIe slots in our systems as they do generate a lot of electrical noise in the system. However, if he were to use such a card, a half-height version would be required.
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