[Chris C]

Hi all,

Could anybody please shed any light on my problem?

I'm trying to connect a small MRS-8 mixer to my computer, through a Creative Audigy sound card.

The sound card is connected to a 5.1 speaker system, but there are two inputs still free - a blue 'Line In' socket and a red one for Microphone.

The mixer sends out a signal that normally requires powered 'studio monitor' type speakers, or to be connected to something like the amp of a home stereo system. It usually runs through a pair of Rokit 5 powered speakers.

If I disconnect the Rokits and connect it to the sound card using a stereo jack plug it seems to work fine. No nasty burning smells, expensive 'snap, crackle and pop' noises or telltale drifts of white smoke.... The sound comes out of all 6 speakers that are connected to the soundcard at what seems like an appropriate volume. Either of the two inputs seems to work.

The snag is that when I try to record the sound, using the Windows sound recorder or Audacity, nothing arrives. Not so much as a flicker on the meters, and nothing recorded.

Is this some kind of evil Creative plot? Do I need to use their sound software? Is it perhaps a Windows detection routine not yet run, or a setting not made? Senility at work...again....??

I did manage to get a result by running a routine that detected microphones for voice work, but this seemed like the wrong approach?? I feel as if it should be using 'line in'.

Any tips or suggestions please?

BTW. Normally you save all the results to a memory card in the mixer and then dump them to computer via a card reader in a USB port, and adjust the format, etc. But I'm hoping to skip some of that, as it's a bit cumbersome for quick-n-dirty record-and-post situations. The condenser mike in the mixer works pretty well too.

This is the Mixer (if it throw up a Language install box, just close it - the page is all in English) Zoom MRS-8

Cheers,

Chris

[Chris C]

Whoops.....

Call off the World-wide search..... fixed it....

Reinstalled the drivers and bits from the soundcard Cd, and bingo - working now.

Guess that would have been a good thing to try first, but everything else was working sound-wise and, well, hindsight always has 20-20 vision...

Cheers,

Chris

[cshude]

Glad you got it figured out! Sounds like you're putting together a nice setup there.

[Chris C]

Originally Posted by cshude

Glad you got it figured out! Sounds like you're putting together a nice setup there.

Thanks Chris,

I've slowly assembled a reasonable range of gear. It's the talent that I'm still having trouble locating....

Today's goal is to try and figure out how to wrestle the drum machine on the mixer into some sort of compliance. I thought it would be fairly simple. Wrong.... I'm never going to make jokes about drummers again...

The MRS-8 seems like a very versatile bit of kit, but there's a bewildering array of knobs and buttons and an even more boggling stack of layers of software options accessed through the display panel. And 147 pages of manual to explain it all....

Sample explanation:

(Above a table with 510 options, with names like HRKs1VA 1)

Rhythm Pattern:

In "Song" columns (No. 35 - 234) verses and fill-ins are gathered up on a style basis to make a rhythm song efficiently with FAST.

For example, when you enter (71+72+73)x2 + (74+75+76)x2, 16 measure fusion rhythm part is completed ("V" of a pattern name mean verse, and "F" does fill-in.)

Yes..... well..... so which drum do I hit next then???

Of course, that table is on page 140.

Looks like I really am going to have to read the 139 pages before it....

Cheers,

Chris

[cshude]

Ouch. I'm not very good at drums myself. You have fun with that manual

[Tekker]

Originally Posted by Chris C

I'm never going to make jokes about drummers again...

Well that's good to hear.

-tkr