A computer is not an audio recorder, not without software.So how can we fix the problem that you dont hear sound on Mac. From anywhere as if you were sitting in front of it Download Now.We'll start our answer with an explanation of what a computer is not. Seeking a Back to My Mac alternative Screens does the job insanely well and offers even more features Screens is a powerful VNC client app that lets you control any computer. From anywhere in the world. Control any computer from your Mac.It requires, same as any DAW software, that you download and install the "Yamaha Steinberg USB Audio Driver" appropriate for you particular computer type and operating system. You could, for example, use the "Yamaha MOXF6/MOXF8 Editor Standalone". The MOXF can standalone, sans computer!You don't need a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) program to connect the MOXF to your computer. Simply connect the main Left/Right outputs to your monitor speakers, or you can monitor it through its own headphone jack with a decent pair of headphones. Under this light.Next important point: The MOXF does not need a computer to output audio.
Hear Software Mac Alternative ScreensBecause today's computer manufacturer's consider "music playback" more important than "music making", (rightfully so from their perspective) the computer driver you are provided is optimized for music playback. (Not without help).Next thing you need to understand is, the MOXF does not need a computer to output audio (as we've mentioned) it, in fact, becomes the "sound-card" for your computer when you want to operate in a "low latency" situation. Without the DRIVER the MOXF is speaking a couple of languages the computer cannot understand. Audio does not travel to the computer (no need) the MOXF connects to its own audio outputs (designed to deliver the sound without delay) - this "without delay" is a musician's mandate: because everything we require from the computer is extremely time sensitive!A "Driver" is what helps the computer understand what the messages (MIDI and Audio messages, in this case) are that are being generated by the MOXF via USB. The average person pays this no mind. It's because of the time sensitivity of the data.When you "playback" a typical audio file with a basic computer, there might me a 200-400ms delay between you pressing the spacebar and the start of music or audio playback. And not because it is so much data, computers can handle the amounts of data, to be sure. Trust me when I tell you music recording makes some serious demands on the computer. Like running in heavy boots.A whole sub-culture of software and drivers exists to help turn the basic computer into a device that *can* record and playback music in a timely fashion. 30ms is laughable, literally laughable. Imagine playing a chord and waiting 200ms before you hear it! You can't play with a 30ms delay. Trust me neither the Mac (nor the Windows) computer is built to handle your synthesizer without special drivers and special software (and external audio interface units). Yamaha HS8's or MSP7 Studio are examples of excellent monitor speakers in the modest price range for home studio use.We mentioned a whole sub-culture of products exists to help the computer function as a musician's tool. We suggest you play you MOXF through a pair of high quality monitor speakers instead. You say you want to play your MOXF through your Mac. You don't really say what you want to do with the audio if you could get it into the computer. Word for mac fit table to marginsI, personally, cannot recommend this. So yes, you could without a DAW but you'd need some program of some kind.If your goal is to use the soundcard built-in the computer, you certainly could (the results would not be very good) - and you would be limited in what you could do. Because WAVELAB is not a DAW (and recording/overdubbing is not its function) you could route signal to your computer's soundcard. You can then route the audio to the output designed for use with that driver. Then you must have an application, be it a DAW, or some other software to route the signal somewhere.A Mastering program (like Steinberg's WAVELAB) can receive the USB audio using the Driver. And the digital audio signal (via USB) must be interpreted by the driver. The digital signal coming in through USB is crystal clear and no noise. In all honesty, although I'm sure it's probably within tolerances, the analog out on the MOXF is a bit noisy. The reason I want to do it is because I'd love to have a low-level mixer function running where I can play and the sound goes digitally thru USB rather than hooking up the MOXF via analog audio outputs and back through the outboard digital mixer. I know very well all the principles of use you describe above. And yes, it does sound very much overly complicated. To get rid of the crackling of the digital audio signal from the keyboard I had to increase the buffer size to around 256K within the Simple Lines audio app.There should not be any crackling in digital audio when properly setup and routed. Anyway, long story short, I was just hoping someone did it with some other app, or had any ideas of how to just hear the MOXF through the digital audio USB without having to go into Cubase and route everything, save all of it, and use all those extra system resources in running the full blown DAW software.I will keep playing around with the Simple Lines app, and there are a couple of others I may try as well.Thanks for the rest of the details! It may sound complicated, but it is exactly what I wanted to do. That would be almost six seconds of latency 44.1kHzPoint of order: The analog output of your MOXF should not be noisy so I can't understand what or even why you are going through all of this, especially just to play along with iTunes (?) but if you're happy, as I said, go for it. Perhaps you mean 256 samples and not 256,000. I'm not familiar with your App nor your console but your buffer size sounds gargantuan. My solutions are much less expensive (don't require a digital mixer or any extra application) and actually will seem a bit more fitting, and much, much simpler solution for such a simple thing like playing along with iTunes, etc. Let me suggest a couple of other solutions (if not for you, for others reading this that may want to just play along with their iTune devices.
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