New to JamKazam and no audio even on setup

[charlie.i]

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Hi Charlie,

Annoying not to be able to get it going.
Now, from your two times remark "no sound/audio on/from the mac", I'm under the impression you are expecting your mac speakers/headphone output to give you your JKZ return audio signal?
If so, that is not how the signal is supposed to flow. Your headphones should be attached to the headphones output of your Focusrite.
In JKZ you choose your Focusrite as both input and output device.

And do bear in mind that you will only hear your 6i6's output when either in 'audio gear setup [play] test' or when 'in a session' - when everything is setup correctly, so 'local monitoring' switched off. (USB playback only)

NB - the 'record' button is rather nondescript in its functioning. It will record - when pushed in a session - and save its results when 'stopped'. It is not however, any means of testing your success in setting up your gear.

Thanks Dimitri, that makes sense.  I assumed JamKazam had a way of playing back from the laptop.  I don't have the right kind of headphones but will get some so I can monitor.  I'm still puzzled about playback though - once I've recorded some music, does that also play back through the Focusrite?

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Yessir! it will.
Basically you create a loop/circle for your audio to travel. So, when not in a session the circle is not complete.

But! Additionally, recordings can also be played back locally (in several ways) but let's get you playing first, without complicating matters any more.


NB - you keep mentioning 'recording' though. If that is in general what you are looking for I would suggest to keep it local/on your mac altogether. With something like e.g. Reaper/Audacity/Logic/etc.

The plan is to rehearse with the rest of my band, but I wanted to try and make it work for me first before putting them to the trouble of downloading jamKazam.  It's not that simple!  I just though it would be fun to multitrack.  But once I can hear myself back I can get the other guys involved.