Pro Tools 9 and Zoom H4N?

[dreamslide720]

I read on the AirUsersBlog that someone was able to make this work, and i am having absolutely no luck with it. i have Asio4All V2, and PT9 runs fine by itself, or doing any kind of midi, work but When i connect my H4N after the load windows it says "audio device is being used by another program pro tools must close out", anyone having any luck with this? I love my h4n and i have a couple bigger PT8 rigs at home, i didn't want to have to buy another small interface for the laptop. so hopefully this is fixable.

[Dism]

Originally Posted by dreamslide720

I read on the AirUsersBlog that someone was able to make this work, and i am having absolutely no luck with it. i have Asio4All V2, and PT9 runs fine by itself, or doing any kind of midi, work but When i connect my H4N after the load windows it says "audio device is being used by another program pro tools must close out", anyone having any luck with this? I love my h4n and i have a couple bigger PT8 rigs at home, i didn't want to have to buy another small interface for the laptop. so hopefully this is fixable.

Have you tried plugging it in first before loading PT?

[dreamslide720]

Originally Posted by Dism

Have you tried plugging it in first before loading PT?

yup sure have, it works ok with record from propellerheads, but not with pro tools.

[pechnatunk]

Hi,
Did you manage to get your H4N to interface with protools 9?
I just bought protools 9 but haven't received it just yet and am about to head overseas. I'm definitely taking my H4N but would like to avoid taking my M-AudioMobilePre as well.
Also - does anyone have any knowledge of performance comparisons between these two interfaces.
Thanks.

[dreamslide720]

nope, tried all new drivers from zoom, tried to update asio, all no go.

[ChuckS]

I have a H2 and it also suffers the same issue with the ASIO driver. However it does work with the ASIO4ALL driver. If you make active/select the Zoom H Series Audio in the ASIO4ALL control panel (the icons to the left of the device), you'll get I/O to/from the device. I believe both units use the same drivers, so this may apply to the H4N. One issue is -9128 errors, but that may be just a function of horsepower or buffer settings. I still don't get the ASIO buffer setting versus the the PT Playback Engine hardware buffer - they can be different. In the ASIO4ALL control panel, I have the computer output active, the computer input idle, the Zoom H Series Audio input active and the Zoom output idle. I get the audio input from the Zoom and monitor through the computer onboard audio out. Watch out for feed back loops if everything is active.

[dreamslide720]

sweet it works, that explains why it told me the h4n asio engine was being used by soemthing else. however while recording i do get clicks every so often, but maybe that's cause it is on 48k maybe if i record at 44.1k when using it that will stop. thanks for your help

[Scander429]

ChuckS
Re: Pro Tools 9 and Zoom H4N?
I have a H2 and it also suffers the same issue with the ASIO driver. However it does work with the ASIO4ALL driver. If you make active/select the Zoom H Series Audio in the ASIO4ALL control panel (the icons to the left of the device), you'll get I/O to/from the device. I believe both units use the same drivers, so this may apply to the H4N. One issue is -9128 errors, but that may be just a function of horsepower or buffer settings. I still don't get the ASIO buffer setting versus the the PT Playback Engine hardware buffer - they can be different. In the ASIO4ALL control panel, I have the computer output active, the computer input idle, the Zoom H Series Audio input active and the Zoom output idle. I get the audio input from the Zoom and monitor through the computer onboard audio out. Watch out for feed back loops if everything is active.

So I have tried this and it is not working is there maybe something I was missing? Possibly a better way of describing what you did?

[ChuckS]

Originally Posted by ChuckS

In the ASIO4ALL control panel, I have the computer output active, the computer input idle, the Zoom H Series Audio input active and the Zoom output idle. I get the audio input from the Zoom and monitor through the computer onboard audio out. Watch out for feed back loops if everything is active.

I don't know how to better describe it. OTT, have you installed the Zoom drivers and started the the unit in audio interface mode?

[Scander429]

Yes, I have the most up to date zoom drivers and I do start it in interface mode before I turn on PT9.