More generally, USB mics, in my opinion, are best avoided for serious work as they’re often quite low-quality and they can run into the sort of problems you’ve encountered. MOTU interfaces are also worth looking at.
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Personally I‘ve used an RME interface for several years with no complaints (RME drivers are among the best there is, their hardware is high quality and they have a good record of continuing to make driver updates available for discontinued products, but they are more expensive). The Focusrite range is well regarded among the less expensive interfaces, though I’d suggest not using one that draws its power from the USB connection as they can sometimes have problems with producing adequate phantom power if it’s needed. You probably would do well to get a “real” audio interface that has manufacturer supplied ASIO drivers. I can use my RME and an iPad as “incoming” audio interfaces plus the on board sound as the “outgoing” interface should I want to. One work-round for this kind of problem is to use a Mac as they can combine interfaces into a “composite” interface that can still operate at low latency so long as the drivers for each physical interface support that - e.g.
have incoming audio from one ASIO driver and sent the outgoing audio to another ASIO driver. This is especially likely if using ASIO drivers as, with a very few exceptions such as RME interfaces, they only allow one interface to be used, so you can’t e.g. So when you play back the exported audio your system “expects” the mic to work as an “outgoing” interface despite it not being able to do that. Which means for some reason outgoing audio is being sent to the mic, not to wherever you expect it to go. What may have happened is that the USB mic is seen by both Windows and Live as an audio interface. This is an educated guess rather than a definitive solution. If I'm pretty new to all this and need a solid entry level audio interface (assuming this idea would allow me to sort of just have things plugged in all the time and skip things like the afore mentioned issues) - what might you recommend? Don't need a lot of features atm, just something that works and is not exorbitantly expensive. Any thoughts on why this happened? Always looking to learn more about what I'm dealing with here. Two follow up questions if anyone is interested: Guess the sound input/output was getting routed in some conflicting way on the machine when trying to render the file with this plugged in. Really not sure of exactly why this occurred, seems like all the more reason to invest in an audio interface of some kind. Unplugged it, and bingo, my export plays with sound. It's the only thing I could think of that was any different from the last song I exported as I just started using the mic. 4 Soundtrap is offered in English, Spanish, French, German, and Swedish, with the latter four being added in 2017. 2 3 The DAW is operated by Soundtrap AB, which was bought by Spotify in November 2017.
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I'm on a small box PC and have been using a Yeti mic to record vocals, which was plugged into my computer via USB. Soundtrap is a freemium online cross-platform digital audio workstation (DAW) for browsers that allows users to create music or podcasts.
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Update - I figured this out, and it was not an Ableton setting.