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The first program to start recording or playing back through Mia will set the
sample rate. As long as an application continues playing or recording
(software synths are typically always playing, even if it is just silence), then
subsequent applications won’t be able to change Mia to a new sample rate.
If you're planning to use multi-client audio, the best thing you can do is to
sit down and plan it out. Make a chart of each input and output on the Echo
card and write down what application is going to use what input or output.
Go through all the applications you plan to use this way and set them all up
for the same sample rate and set up their inputs and outputs correctly.
You should also turn off your system sounds. Most system sounds tend to
be at 11 kHz or 22 kHz. If you have a digital device slaved to Mia’s clock,
playing a system sound will cause it to lose sync (S/PDIF runs at 32kHz and
above) and possibly produce an annoying output. If Mia is locked to a
higher sample rate, then the system sounds won’t sound right anyway.
If you really want system sounds, go buy a $30 cheapo sound card and play
them through that. Set the preferred device in the Multimedia control panel
to the cheapo sound card and check “Use preferred devices only.”
Q: What are the rules that I should follow if I want to use
multiple audio applications at the same time?
- Set all your applications to the same sample rate. (You can also use the
“sample rate lock” feature in the Echo Console to help with this.)
-Turn off your system sounds.
- Figure out ahead of time which inputs and outputs each application is
going to use. Inputs and outputs cannot be shared between applications.