I’ve been learning the ins and outs of my new QU-16 for the past week but for some reason I still cannot get my iMac to sync it’s stereo output (for non-DAW programs like iTunes, google chrome, etc) to the ST1 (17 & 18) channel rather than the default 1 & 2.
I’ve done everything suggested on a post I found on this thread about going to Utilities/Audio MIDI Setup/configure speakers and setting the LR outputs to 17 & 18 respectively. It doesn’t change a thing! I’ve restarted my computer and the programs and the mixer but nothing works. The strange part is that wen I click the test buttons “left front” and “right front” it sends signal exactly where it should, which is the ST1 channel. But the rest of the programs within the computer are still outputting to tracks 1 & 2.
I’ve gotten it setup properly in my DAW (Logic Pro 9) because I can manually choose the output setting within the program.
And this is just a personal opinion, but I really think the default output setting for the basic stereo signal should be one of the ST tracks (1,2, or 3) rather than tracks 1 & 2. I can’t see too many people wanting to eat up their first two mono tracks for basic stereo playback functioning. Kind of weird that it’s setup that way out of the box. Maybe I’m crazy.
If someone could help me out I’d really appreciate it!! I looked everywhere before posting this to make sure I wasn’t overlooking something.
Hi Trevor,
I agree with you that the default would have been nice if it was ST-1, not channel 1 & 2.
I have a Qu24 and just did the same test with my Mac laptop. Here’s what I did…
Go to System Preferences and click on Sound (icon of a woofer) and choose QU24 Audio in the “Output” tab.
I then went to utilities/Audio MIDI Setup.app
Open the app and make sure that the “Stereo” tab is selected at the top.
I then clicked on “Configure Speakers” in the lower right-hand corner.
For the left channel I chose Q25 and for the right channel Q26. When I clicked on the “left front” test button, I got no reading on the input LED’s of the St-1 channel. My guess is that you will need to use Q17 for the left and Q18 for the right channel.
DOH!
I needed to change the ST-1 input source from “Local” to USB.
When I changed the input source to USB I had stereo audio from iTunes.
Man, this is really frustrating. I’d already double checked that I was selecting “USB” and not “local” for my ST1 source. I’m getting no real signal through ST1. The test signal works though! Isn’t that weird? I’ve got 17 & 18/stereo selected under the audio Midi setup window. I’m just getting no signal from the non-DAW programs. It’s very strange and really annoying because I don’t know what else to do. I really hope my board isn’t defective. I just bought it brand new.
Now I just tried routing to ST2 (19 & 20) and ST3 (21 $ 22) but still no luck. Always double checking that the source is USB. Also just so you know, I’ve made sure my global source is USB streaming and not the QuDrive.
Hi Trevor,
it is working perfectly on the Mac Pro with OSX 10.9.2 but 10.9.3 on the laptop is now broke
Earlier when I first responded to your post I used the laptop with 10.9.2 and it worked great,
then just after the 10.9.3 update completed it was broke.
Dang!
Well, I’m updating now but when I was having the problem it was with 10.9.2, which is even weirder since that’s what was working for you. Oh technology. There’s always something.
I can’t believe it, I just clicked on OSX update on the Mac Pro and it now has 10.9.4 available,
it is updating now, the laptop is already 10.9.4, I guess I was mistaken earlier and thought it was 10.9.3
I am listening to Michael Buble, “You and I”
the moron engineer has a de-esser on his vocal and some of his esses make him sound like he has a terrible lithp.
so much of his music recordings are excellent but not this one. Oh well,
the laptop 10.9.4 is still broke and spits out iTunes music to channels 1 & 2 but test sounds in audio midi setup to ST-1 like it should… unreal,
Dan
