Possible to listen through MBOX 2 mini with headphones? (e.g. winamp & youtube)

[kbbajer]

Hello

I am very new to all this, I just sat up my MBOX 2 mini and ProTools today. But I'm wondering if it is possible to use the "headphones out" on the front of the mbox, to listen to sounds other than the ones comming from protools? If so that would be great, because then I don't have to plug the headphones in and out of the mbox and my main soundcard all the time :)

I hope you get what I'm talking about, and are able to help me :)

Cheers
Kristian

[sw rec]

Depends on which Operating System you're on. There's the MME Helper for XP which works for pretty much everything but I-tunes. There is no VISTA wave driver, and there's a BETA version of a general-purpose Windows 7 wave driver, but nobody seems to be having much luck with it.

[kbbajer]

Thank you for your answer :)

I am running Windows 7 Ultimate, 64 bit. Do you know where I can get more information about it?

Thanks again
Kristian

[kbbajer]

Hi again

I figured it out myself. If anyone else wants to know how, just uninstall the old drivers, and install what's on the bottom on this page http://www.digidesign.com/index.cfm?...40492&langid=1

It is for Windows 7 only

You might have to make it your standard sound output (controlpanel>hardware>sound)

Cheers

[Danos1]

I have also found that:

everything (all sounds on my computer) actually plays via the Pro Tools headphone jack - WHEN I have PT plugged into the firewire port (when I start my computer that way). If I turn on my computer & THEN plug PT in, it does not.

[kbbajer]

Okay, cool.

I've just found out that the sounds gets all crappy after every reboot of the pc, so I have to reinstall the driver every time

I hope they fix it soon..

[kbbajer]

Originally Posted by kbbajer

I've just found out that the sounds gets all crappy after every reboot of the pc, so I have to reinstall the driver every time

Jesus Christ, at least that's what I thought.. A reinstall doesn't do it, now I can't get it to work at all! Every sound from the computer, including the ones from Pro Tools, sounds all crappy or chuppy I can't really find a word for it. It just sucks, and is unusable.

What the duck man, why can't they make an official Windows 7 driver release at least, and then one for the 64 bit systems also. They now that everybody will be using Win7 soon, and they also should know that a lot of powerfull systems has a 64 bit OS these days, to get the full potential out of their hardware. So fix it, god damned.

Sorry
Cheers.

[TOM@METRO]

Pro Tools is at this point best run on XP 32bit and with V8.0.1cs1. Then beta driver for W7/64 is just that a beta. It can be made to work with certain hardware changes and tweaks but is of questionable value at this point because XP works so well. If you feel you need W7/64 on your DAW computer then a dual boot will be the ideal the way to go.

[JMS40]

That's a big issue with the Win7 Beta. Most call it "robotic".
There are threads regarding the bug(s) in this special forum:
Pro Tools 8.0.3 Windows 7 Public Beta

[kbbajer]

Originally Posted by TOM@METRO

Pro Tools is at this point best run on XP 32bit and with V8.0.1cs1. If you feel you need W7/64 on your DAW computer then a dual boot will be the ideal the way to go.

Okay, thank you for the information. But that's just not good enough for me, WinXP is 9 years old soon and has two descendants already, it's just to old. And it gets a little to unhandy if I have to alter between two OS' just to be able to use PT. So I hope they will make a fix soon, Win7 is not new anymore, they should have done it a while ago I think.

Originally Posted by JMS40

That's a big issue with the Win7 Beta. Most call it "robotic".
There are threads regarding the bug(s) in this special forum:
Pro Tools 8.0.3 Windows 7 Public Beta

Thank you, useful information