Minim microphone get line in

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gudakl

in Core Library Questions • 2 years ago

Hi there,

I am doing a minim sketch that i want to be able to hook up 6 microphones to. However i feel that Minim especially on a mac doesn't have this feature? is this correct?
At the moment i just want to hook up one (my sketch is just using the mac line in at the moment), is this possible if you own a mac to get an external line Input from a mic and how?

any suggestions would helpful

G

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nawka3030

Re: Minim microphone get line in

1 year ago

having the same problem, did you find solution by any chance ?

ddifede

Re: Minim microphone get line in

1 year ago

For starters, if you want to hook up 6 microphones, you will need external audio hardware with at least 6 inputs that you can plug microphones into. For instance, I have a Motu similar to this one http://www.motu.com/products/motuaudio/ultralite-mk3, which would work, provided 4 of the mics could be plugged in with quarter-inch instead of XLR.

Once you have the audio interface all setup, you should be able to use setAudioMixer to get an AudioInput for each unique input of the audio interface. Take a look at the setInputMixer example and see what shows up in the drop-down box. You will hopefully see a Mixer corresponding to each input for your interface, however, when I just tried this on my Mac it shows me only one input for my Motu, which appears to correspond to the main mix. On my PC, I see a mixer for each stereo pair of inputs. It might be the case that if you ask for two mono inputs from the same mixer, you'll get first the left and then the right channel, but I haven't tested this. I also had problems switching mixers and immediately getting another input. It gave an error about a capture device already being active.

So, that's what I would try, but can't guarantee you'll get it working properly. What can I say, JavaSound has shitty support for this. :-/

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