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    Audio Input/Output Help

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by Typhex, May 10, 2009.

  1. Typhex

    Typhex Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello I have a Gateway P-7811 FX, and let me tell you my audio problem. I have Vista 64 bit and a Conexant High Definition Smart Audio 221 card.

    What I want to do is be able to plug my Xbox 360 sound into my computer's microphone input and play it back through the speakers I have plugged into the computer's output live.

    I can sort of do this by using Audacity to playback the input as I record it, but I don't really want to record my Xbox 360's audio. I would also rather do it natively rather than through software such as Audacity. I tried monitoring the input in Ableton Live without recording it but it was delayed by about half a second and that's just not cool.

    Any suggestions? If you have any questions about hardware/settings just ask away, whatever it takes to get this working.

    (For those that are really curious, the reason I want to do this is so I can have my computer's audio and my xbox 360's audio go through the same pair of speakers without swapping the cords in the back of my speakers. I have a 23'' Acer monitor that I use for my computer and for playing Xbox 360 on.)
     
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    sentence Notebook Consultant

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    why not just get an audio splitter and have them both connected to your "speakers" ?
     
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    Typhex Notebook Enthusiast

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    I tried doing that. my speakers have a Left and a Right RCA input, and I bought two RCA splitters to hook both "lefts" and "rights" into the same RCA left and right inputs. However, when I did that the sound from each source was very faint and distorted when both sources were plugged in.

    It may just be time for some new speakers...

    Thanks for your response.
     
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    Typhex Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yeah, that would work, but I'd rather do it through my computer so I don't have to buy a switch and then switch it back and forth all the time.

    From what I understand XP used to have this functionality by simply unmuting the line-in in the volume controls, but Vista seems to have taken this functionality out by default and it is muted by default... You would think this would be an easy task, I mean I basically just want sound to go from the input through the output on my computer's soundcard. Simple, right?

    Thanks again for all of your help.
     
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