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Listten to the line-in input
Authored by: robleach on Oct 13, '06 09:09:17AM

This is a good one. In 10.2.x you used to be able to do this without a third party app (such as LineIn) using one of the midi app's preferences that came with the OS, but since 10.3, that feature/app has been gone. I've used LineIn since then to be able to record radio which I plug into the mic slot. It's annoying though that you have to have an app in the doc to do this where as in the past, when you changed the preference in the midi app, it applied globally and you could quit the app and it would still work. This is really something I I think should be in the system audio preferences!



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Authored by: beepotato on Oct 13, '06 10:38:12AM

You don't need a third party app. The preference you're talking about is still there, in the Audio MIDI Setup application (in the Utilities folder).
In the Audio Input section (lower left corner of the window), there is a table showing the settings for each channel of the selected input. In this table, there is a Thru column, with a check box (enabled only for the Master channel) to do what you want.

MacOS X v10.4.8, Audio MIDI Setup v2.1



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Authored by: osxpounder on Oct 13, '06 10:45:45AM

On some systems, including my all-stock MBP, the check boxes to which you refer remain greyed out, unchangeable, and therefore LineIn is a useful solution for my machine.



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Listten to the line-in input
Authored by: robleach on Oct 19, '06 11:41:31AM

My "thru" checkbox is greyed out - always has been since 10.3.x. Do you know how to ungrey it? It's not greyed out on my 10.4 machine at work.

Rob



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