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Sound Blaster Live! 24 bit USB + Mac OS X

  • Published February 17th, 2007 in Apple

Contrary to the usual myth that Mac OS X does not support unusual hardware (and an USB sound card is absolutely uncommon since no Mac has ever shipped with one Cube has it seems!) let me tell you that it works flawlessly out of the box.

Instructions

  1. Plug it in
  2. Profit!

Well, not quite. But it isn’t much harder. Just go to System Preferences and on the sound Pane just change the Input/Output to your recently detected Sound Blaster Live! 24bit. Ploff, it works!

P.S. - Let’s see how this procedure goes in Debian..


8 Responses to “Sound Blaster Live! 24 bit USB + Mac OS X”

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  1. Leonel
    Published at February 17th, 2007 at 4:22 pm

    and an USB sound card is absolutely uncommon since no Mac has ever shipped with one

    Not quite true… my Cube has a USB sound card! ;)

  2. AKI+
    Published at February 27th, 2007 at 6:55 pm

    is it really WORK? I wanna buy this,, it’s cheap. ;-)

  3. AKI+
    Published at February 28th, 2007 at 9:56 am

    I think MAC needs USB audio driver installed, otherwise, it’s working just on 16bit/48khz.,, but costs $60 :(

    http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macos/8924

  4. mlopes
    Published at February 28th, 2007 at 6:14 pm

    AKI,

    I’ve heard that the USB audio driver just provides you with a better control of the hardware, namely the mute button, etc. Regarding the basic features like input/output frequency Mac OS X Tiger’s driver should have no change over it.

    But I’m not sure. We’ll have to confirm this issue.

  5. Rui Luna
    Published at September 18th, 2007 at 8:15 pm

    Ola, falo em PT pois sei que és portuga pois tenho lido os teus posts atraves do agregador de blogs ;) pois recentemente adquiri um macbook e agora tinha aqui uma placa USB exactamente igual a esse , liguei ao mac, acendeu logo a luz e aparece nas preferencias como la esta, so que não dá som, nem se a escolher como default nem no software virtual DJ que da para ter as 2 em funcionamento (uma pra pre escuta e a outra pra sair o som normal). sabes de algum procedimento que possa fazer? ah…sou muito leigo ainda nesta materia de macs. obrigado pela atenção. se quiseres, adiciona.me no msn (se usares ;)) redmoskito@hotmail.com

  6. mlopes
    Published at September 19th, 2007 at 10:09 pm

    Hi Rui,

    Firstly, please write your comments in English so that foreigners can understand the conversation. Thanks.

    Your problem is weird. Have you tested the basic stuff like if you’re connecting the headphones to the right jack (do not use the digital output) or if it is enabled on System Preferences? Also, the hardware has an external mute button. Make sure that is not turned on by mistake.

    Hope it helps.

  7. Rui Luna
    Published at September 20th, 2007 at 11:35 am

    Hi, sorry about not writing in English.
    I’ve solved the problem just by restarting :O now it works just fine, by the headphones jack and front speakers ;) thanks, i was kind of desperate cause Saturday i’m gonna have my first experience has a DJ in a bar/disco, but now it’s ok, thank god…lol

  8. mlopes
    Published at September 24th, 2007 at 3:41 pm

    Good luck with that! :-)

    I’m also a DJ by the way.