Can I record my vinyl sets with my internal soundcard (Korg Zero 4)

[Xonetacular]

I meant he should just connect his speakers to the main out since he has his regular speakers hooked up to record out now.

[Eliot Han]

I meant he should just connect his speakers to the main out since he has his regular speakers hooked up to record out now.

I agree fully with this, that way he can utilize the volume controls without messing with the speakers.

[Vandalus]

I have this same mixer. Have you installed the Mac drivers (firewire) for it? Once plugged in via firewire, the yellow connector on the mixer should light up. Run the zero edit to make sure its communicating properly. Then, open audacity, or really any audio program and your korg should show up and from there you can record whatever is coming out of the mixer. The issue is you need to run the zero edit to find (or amend depending on how its set up) which channel the master sound is being sent to digitally. I have tried recording in ableton which worked much better than audacity - for some reason with audacity I wasn't getting the right channels. Ableton picked it up right away and everything recorded perfectly. I should add - I only messed around with audacity for maybe 2 minutes, realized it wasn't working right and said screw it - went back into ableton and it worked perfectly so I'm not saying its not possible, just I didn't bother to spend the time figuring out audacity to make it work.

I do however have a slight hiss/crackle on the recordings, both vinyl and those recorded/played through traktor. I do not get any hiss/crackle through the mains or the headphone monitors, so its not perfect unfortunately (at least, in my experience).

[djproben]

I do however have a slight hiss/crackle on the recordings, both vinyl and those recorded/played through traktor. I do not get any hiss/crackle through the mains or the headphone monitors, so its not perfect unfortunately (at least, in my experience).

This may be an issue with your firewire port, I have seen this on other soundcards that use firewire. If you get a chance to experiment with another Mac or another port give that a shot.

[MyUsername]

Have you installed the Mac drivers (firewire) for it? Run the zero edit to make sure its communicating properly.

1. There are no Mac drivers, only PC drivers. It works fine without drivers for me, did you download any ?
2. Thanks. A quick change with the edit software and it worked like a charm. In audacity too.

[Vandalus]

1. There are no Mac drivers, only PC drivers. It works fine without drivers for me, did you download any ?
2. Thanks. A quick change with the edit software and it worked like a charm. In audacity too.

I recall downloading something - I thought there were drivers included - but maybe it was just the traktor adapter for the zero 4 that was included. I'm glad you got it to work. Are you picking up any static or is it clean when recording with vinyl?

[MyUsername]

I recall downloading something - I thought there were drivers included - but maybe it was just the traktor adapter for the zero 4 that was included. I'm glad you got it to work. Are you picking up any static or is it clean when recording with vinyl?

Yeah must have been the traktor adaptor. My recordings are pretty crisp but my monitors do have some hissing/static. But it's only noticeable when I'm not playing anything.

[MyUsername]

I'm sorry Vandalus, how exactly do you have it set up in the software?

I only did a quick test yesterday, just one record, didn't want to wake the neighbors.

When I did a mix today I was getting all channels not just the master. So as soon as I dropped the needle on the second record with the channel faders still down for that deck I was already hearing it on my recording.