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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | I have installed an iDea OPi-1 into my C2C4 project (1122 neck/deepbowl/cedar-top), and it works fine, but........when I connect it to my PC, operating with Windows XP, it does nothing to recognize the preamp as a "removable disc drive", as stated in the Quick Start Guide.
Any of you computer gurus out there have some insights, or suggestions? |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | BTW, I have sent an email to Mother about this last night, also. No word, yet. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Just some quick thoughts...
Bad USB cable? Try another cable?
Bad USB hub? Tried other USB ports?
Rebooted? (both)
My Vista machines have been able to see my iDea. |
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| Have you connected a lot of different removable devices (flash drives, memory cards, etc.) to that particular computer? I've seen WinXP assign a new drive letter to each new mass storage device you connect via USB. Once you've used up all the drive letters available, the OS can't assign a new one to a device it hasn't seen before. You can clear the USB device cache, but the how-to for that is best left to another forum. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | All I've got is the USB cable that came with the iDea. It has some type of device inline on the cable, also. I have only plugged in my cardreader for my DSLR camera to the 2 USB ports, and I know they both work. I have rebooted the computer, by turning it on-&-off at least twice. No help.
I just don't know enough about this stuff to make an accurate description. All I have determined, it is not Plug-&-Play, yet. |
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| Any chance you could try connecting it to another computer?
BTW, that "device inline" in a ferrite choke, designed to eliminate electromagnetic/radio frequency interference from the cable when it's connected. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Thanks for that info. I will lug this critter down to my office, and see if that PC recognizes it. Knowing all the security crap installed in that multi-user system, I'm not holding my breath....... |
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Location: Newington, CT | Careful what you do! If I were to plug an iDea into my office computer, it would be an immediate firing offense!
(not joking here) |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Our CEO's middle name is "Musician's Friend". I will ask first, though! |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | OK, OK, OK........
AlanM: "told you so, told you so"
I mean, whaddar the chances? Brand new electronic gizmo, everything else works fine and, S**T!!!- the USB cord is bad.
So, I will trundle myself off to the nearest Radio Shack, and get a replacement.
Mother was good enough to send me an output jack cable already, so I'm not "dippin' from the well" again, this soon.
Thanks for the help, Alan & G8r!
About that ferrite choke device- should I put it on the replacement patch cord? Technically, what does it "choke" off in the signal, that would be present in the recording environment? |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Oh, and another thing:
Alan, did you install the aux jack in your guitar bowl, and what do you suggest, as to its useful purposes?
I would think, recording an entire song, for accompaniment, would use up quite a bit of memory space, from like your I-pod, or an I-tunes file. |
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Location: Newington, CT | Didn't do the aux jack install...I use the iDea as a way to "jot down" musical ideas if I'm not at home. Also, to accompany myself from time to time.
Any slightly new iPod should have plenty of space for a LOT o'songs. Mine is a couple years old, and advertises that it will hold "over 5,000 songs." That means your usual 3-5 mb mp3's. I have a few symphonies and a few entire baseball games, as well as several "IT Crowd" (britwit) episodes and several hundred songs (some even of my own devising!), and I still have GIGAbytes of storage left.
Far as iTunes is concerned, I think that's limited only by the capacity of your hard drive. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Thanks for the informed observations. Actually, I was referring to storing entire songs on the iDea. So, not recording onto iTunes, but recording from iTunes, so I have something portable & present, when I'm practicing a piece. Original material, much less original ideas, are not likely, at this juncture.
I did get the aux jack installed, just in case.
It doesn't appear to turn the preamp on, like when plugging in the 1/4" jack, or the earbuds. |
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Location: Utah | I believe they said at the RoadShow that the iDea holds 100 minutes of recorded audio. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest Inland Empire | Wow, that's quite a bit. Thanks! |
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iDea recognition on my PC conundrum
