How do I record with MBOX audio 2?

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#1

I can’t for the darn of me figure out how to record a track. I am using a mbox audio 2 midi interface, I can hear myself through the microphone on the track, and I guess through master which seems to always have to be on. What is master for anyways? I have clicked the record button at the top, I have clicked the record button on the track, and I hit play but even though I can hear myself through the microphone nothing is recording. Hopefully someone can help. Thanks

#2

Hi Anders,
I also have the Mbox2 audio interface, but I haven’t been able to get it working.
The driver doesn’t load properly in my case. I’m on US18.04 with kxstudio repos.
What does dmesg tell you when you insert the usb?

#3

Um do you mean dmesg in terminal, it returns me a bunch of stuff that I can’t make heads or tails of, sorry I am not much help for this it just worked for me automatically in Ardour.

#4

In short: Ardour does not directly interact with Audio Hardware. It always uses a OS provided driver.

In case of Linux, thanks to @zamaudio, recent kernels do have built-in support for the MBox 2 – see http://www.zamaudio.com/?p=97 for details. For Windows there are ASIO drivers. What OS do you use?

Do the signal-meters in Ardour’s mixer move? If not: Maybe you’re hearing yourself via direct hardware monitoring. If so you should hear yourself when Ardour isn’t running. – What settings Do you use in Ardour’s Audio/MIDI Setup dialog?

It may be easier to troubleshoot this interactively… join us on #ardour IRC chat, or via Ardour-Menu > Help > Chat

It is the default sum bus. Usually you have 10-20 tracks. say Drums, Guitars, Vocals… and they all are summed to “master” which in turn connects to the speaker and is also what you export.