Logic and Firepower 610 and Kyma

Question

Hi,

 

I really like my new Kyma system. It's really fabulous software. I'm less enthusiastic about the Firepower FCA 610. I realize that you're not Behringer tech support, but I have a couple of questions that I'm hoping you might be able to answer.

 

1) my iMac sees and can play through the 610. However, the iMac doesn't pass system volume and headphone controls to the 610. The 610 is replacing an Apogee Duet in my chain and it was recognized and could be used as an external controller on my mac. Is there some sort of system registration or applet I should be running to enable that?

 

2) similarly, I can hear Kyma, but I can't seem to figure out how to get Logic to record the Kyma from the 610. Logic sees the 610 but won't take the audio. I keep getting a midi error. Any suggestions?

 

3) lastly, if just want audio in and no midi, can I revert to the Duet? It's a USB device. Suggestions? I thought about daisy chaining the duet and the usb out on the 610, but that seems wasteful. If I put the duet back in the chain as the audio master for the mac, can I just get audio out of the Kyma<> 610 chain and go audio into the duet?

 

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Answer 1

In the FireWire audio standard, there can only be one “master” controlling a specific audio interface at any given time, either the host computer or the Paca(rana).

Some audio interfaces (like MOTU, Apogee, and the newer Behringer interfaces) let you switch “masters” relatively easily, using Audio MIDI Setup on the Mac, or the Device Manager on Windows, so you can be using the audio interface with either Kyma or the host computer audio software (but not both simultaneously).

Instructions for switching between the source of control for the MOTU Ultrallite can be found here: http://www.symbolicsound.com/Learn/MotuMacPacaAlternating

If you would like to hear audio from both the computer and Kyma at the same time, you could dedicate one audio interface to the Paca(rana) and another audio interface to the computer. With the FCA610, we would suggest that you use the Duet as the Mac’s interface and the FCA610 as the Paca(rana)’s, then connect the Duet’s output to the front panel analog inputs of the FCA610 (you may need to select the Instrument and PAD buttons and adjust the INPUT levels to make sure that the Duet’s audio does not clip at the FCA610’s input). Then you can use the MIX BAL control on the 610 front panel to control the audio mix between the audio from the computer and the audio from Kyma and the MAIN VOL control to control the overall level.