Playback over Laptop speakers

DeafMute · Post by **DeafMute** » Tue May 08, 2007 3:57 pm

This may sound quite odd, but does anybody know if i can playback my Traveler's main outs through my macbook speakers?

To me it seems quite logical. lf I'm doing field recording, I wouldn't want to carry a pair of speakers with me, I'd also avoid using headphones if i wanted to share the recordings with a group.

The only thing i can think of, is to route the main outs and plug them straight into the macbooks input (the microphone input) I haven't tried this yet, since it seems rather scary.

I'm running a Traveler witha Macbook Pro and DP 5.1.

Any suggestions?
Thanks

cuttime · Post by **cuttime** » Tue May 08, 2007 4:31 pm

Just set your "Default Output" to "Built-in Audio" on the Audio MIDI Setup utility. I use Audio MIDI setup so often that I keep it on my dock.

DeafMute · Post by **DeafMute** » Fri May 11, 2007 12:43 am

Thanks cuttime, even though that was my first guess, i did it again as per your suggestion and i still can't hear a thing. Would i have to change any setting within my Traveler?

I changed both (separately) my Default and my System outputs.

Cheers

cuttime · Post by **cuttime** » Fri May 11, 2007 7:09 pm

Leave the system audio on "Traveler", and make sure that the DP playback bundle is set to "Built-In Audio".

DeafMute · Post by **DeafMute** » Tue May 15, 2007 5:31 pm

This worked indirectly. By not plugging in my Traveler, I got the pop-up, when starting up DP, to set up the I/O‘s, I chose built-in, and there it was...

Thanks cuttime

cuttime · Post by **cuttime** » Tue May 15, 2007 8:09 pm

You can leave the Traveler plugged in, just select Built In Audio from the Hardware Driver window.

DeafMute · Post by **DeafMute** » Wed May 16, 2007 2:40 pm

I guess i wasn't clear enough. I figured it out when I did not plug the Traveler , and i was ale to take it from there on to plugging it and getting playback over my Traveler outs and my Mac speakers.

Thanks!