EDIT: This turned out to be an issue with MacOS Mojave / Catalina. The Privacy setting for the Microphone was not available. See the workaround on post #8 further down this thread.
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I get no input signal in Ableton from any of the tracks that are routed from my Zoom Livetrak L-20. Is there anyone who has successfully achieved this? If so, would you mind posting your setup tips as I have been struggling on this for several hours!
Other audio interfaces work fine for me in Ableton, but I do want to switch to the LiveTrak L-20 as it should provide me with more input tracks and other useful options for my audio production workflow.
Here's my setup and what I have tried so far:
- Using Ableton Live 10 Suite on MacOS Catalina 10.15.4.
- Hardware: Zoom Livetrak L-20 with the most recent firmware from Zoom (v1.14).
- Only one other USB device (a mouse) is attached to the iMac.
- Re-booted and reinstalled the Zoom L-20 drivers as per the manual.
- Tried both with and without the latest Zoom drivers, in and out of USB Class Compliant Mode. I always have the Audio Interface option switched on the back of the Zoom Livetrak.
- Tried all tracks and also just two tracks, with clear level signals lighting up on the Livetrak.
- The USB output works on the USB audio return tracks, and always has.
- In Ableton, all the correct inputs show up in the Audio configuration preferences when the Zoom Livetrak is turned on.
- I have never managed to see any signal coming in from the Zoom Livetrak through the correctly selected audio Ext. In inputs in Ableton.
- I can both see and hear the output of the tracks I want to record, but only out of the Livetrak hardware, not in Ableton.
Please help if you know what the solution is. I am currently suspecting it to be a MacOS / Zoom Driver issue. Perhaps it is an issue in Ableton.
Thanks in advance!
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I get no input signal in Ableton from any of the tracks that are routed from my Zoom Livetrak L-20. Is there anyone who has successfully achieved this? If so, would you mind posting your setup tips as I have been struggling on this for several hours!
Other audio interfaces work fine for me in Ableton, but I do want to switch to the LiveTrak L-20 as it should provide me with more input tracks and other useful options for my audio production workflow.
Here's my setup and what I have tried so far:
- Using Ableton Live 10 Suite on MacOS Catalina 10.15.4.
- Hardware: Zoom Livetrak L-20 with the most recent firmware from Zoom (v1.14).
- Only one other USB device (a mouse) is attached to the iMac.
- Re-booted and reinstalled the Zoom L-20 drivers as per the manual.
- Tried both with and without the latest Zoom drivers, in and out of USB Class Compliant Mode. I always have the Audio Interface option switched on the back of the Zoom Livetrak.
- Tried all tracks and also just two tracks, with clear level signals lighting up on the Livetrak.
- The USB output works on the USB audio return tracks, and always has.
- In Ableton, all the correct inputs show up in the Audio configuration preferences when the Zoom Livetrak is turned on.
- I have never managed to see any signal coming in from the Zoom Livetrak through the correctly selected audio Ext. In inputs in Ableton.
- I can both see and hear the output of the tracks I want to record, but only out of the Livetrak hardware, not in Ableton.
Please help if you know what the solution is. I am currently suspecting it to be a MacOS / Zoom Driver issue. Perhaps it is an issue in Ableton.
Thanks in advance!
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