John Reekie has produced a great blog post about how to work around the problems Java has on OS X with audio input from Firewire cards, multi-input USB cards and 48kHz sources. You can find the cure for these JavaSound ills at Room EQ Wizard on the Mac - An Input Workaround. Great work John, and thank you!
That is unfortunate. A 2 channel USB interface will hopefully work. Be careful to buy an interface which is sure to work. Ideally borrow one to try.
I don't know where you are, but this German company sells calibrated mics of a high standard, for a decent price. http://www.acoustics.isemcon.com
DD
Thanks for the clarification though, as you noted, Line In is still missing. Hopefully connecting via HDMI will become possible. I think the simplicity of connecting via HDMI was one of reasons I was drawn to try REW. Anyway, hopefully things work out - I can't wait to get REW running so I can start optimizing my room setup.
Yes, I'm working on it at the moment using JRE8u5 on 10.9.3. Looking good so far, there is now a full JavaSound implementation in the JRE and it is performing well, should have a new build in the next couple of weeks.
I have 10.9.3 and, after some initial difficulties (nothing to do with REW, but with the card settings), I got my Edirol UA-3FX USB sound card to calibrate properly with REW.
Hi John and company
I am just getting ready to purchase a Minidsp Umik and was wondering if there has been any success in getting this hardware to play nice with REW in OSX land ... running 10.9.4 on a Mac-mini.
Just built some Open Baffles and would like to take some measurements and get this room right.
I tried it the first time today. Unfortunately I couldn't gt it started.
I am using a MacBook pro 15" 2010 with a a RME Fireface UFX. I can get the pink noise out of the soundcard but can't loop it back to the programm (no input metering). Microphone isn't working as well (no input metering).
I read the getting along from John Reekie but didn't help. The Version 5 crashes maybe wrong buffer size?
Am I doing anything wrong??:help:
Line in is installed and passes the audio through which I can see in the graphs. But Soundflower isn'T doing anything. I guess
I have read a lot of posts but still unclear on whether a macbook pro retina with ox 10.9.4 (which is mavericks latest version) will work with REW using a USB mic - MiniDSP UMIK-1. Maybe there isn't a clear answer but please let me know.
I also have Fusion running MS Windows 8.1 if it is easier to run virtually.
Do i need to run HDMI out to processor if processor has built in tones?
As someone who has never used REW before, I was waiting for the latest version to come out of beta but I suppose I can give the beta a go...
Some questions:
1. Is REW now working with the UMIK-1 and HDMI (ie, can I just use a HDMI connection rather than an analog connection between my Mac and receiver)?
2. If so, with the latest version of REW, do I still need to use SoundFlower and LineIn?
The latest Beta REW works happily at 48K and thus the UMIK-1 works perfectly.
I don't know HDMI, but if your computer can output on HDMI while using the USB of the UMIK for audio input, it will work fine.
DD
Thank you DanDan - I think I'll soon be ordering a UMIK-1. Its going to be great to finally be able to see what my room response is like and to start optimizing
Fantastic that it worked out for you. So I take it you still need to use Soundflower and LineIn? I have my mic arriving in the next week or so. Originally I was going to go the HDMI route right away but I've now decided to initially just use an analog connection to my AVR as my first task will be restricted to finding a good location for my sub. It will be my first time using REW - can't wait
This is great folks ... the UMik was purchased last week. Will be using analogue as well and a 2X4 Minidisp/REW for a two driver open baffle (tubes for the full ranger and a solid state beast for the woofer). Can't wait for you folks to share your experiences.
I'm using REW with an Apple mouse, the kind with a touch sensitive surface for scrolling. I'm finding I'm accidentally zooming my graphs when my finger accidentally brushes the mouse surface. Is it possible to disable this graph zoom via the mouse?
Oh. No, that's not where You should set SoundFlower to 48000 Hz there. Then you need to run the SoundFlowerBed app, and you can get this (by EmagSamurai, linked in first post)
I'm noticing what looks like a minor bug: if I save a measurement and then try to save it a second time, the "Save as" input box now lists the entire path rather than just the suggested filename by default. If I hit return, ie use the full path suggestion, then I get an error telling me that I am using illegal characters. I can get it work by manually removing the full path and just using the filename.
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