USB Sound Card for Win7
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I'm sure that this has come up before so please bear with me.
In setting up my new Win7 computer I find that my iMic USB soundcard device is not compatible. I would appreciate input from those here who have had this problem and have found a workaround. At least my iOgear GUC232 USB-to-serial converter works well. 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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Phil, I have had no problem with the Griffin imic USB sound interface with windows 7. It was just plug and play. In particular used it to get KX3 IQ audio into a couple of computers. 73 - Mike WA8BXN -------Original Message------- From: Phil Kane Date: 06/12/13 23:58:06 To: [hidden email] Subject: [Elecraft] USB Sound Card for Win7 I'm sure that this has come up before so please bear with me. In setting up my new Win7 computer I find that my iMic USB soundcard device is not compatible. I would appreciate input from those here who have had this problem and have found a workaround. At least my iOgear GUC232 USB-to-serial converter works well. 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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I'd suggest you figure out the chipset used in the iMic, then go to
the chipset manufacturer's web site and download the drivers for Win7. Usually, this is the Best Way(tm). I recently updated this machine to Win7-64, and had to dig drivers out from under a lot of rocks. For integrated devices, the Samsung web support page was helpful. But for outboard, you'd want to address the issue with the manufacturer of the external devices. Generally, this comes down to the chipset used. The iMic manufacturer should have a handle on this too, but I suspect that's the first place you looked. Win7-32 and -64 have been around long enough now that locating drivers and support software / utilities should be do-able, albeit a pain in the neck sometimes. 73, matt W6NIA On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 20:57:56 -0700, you wrote: >I'm sure that this has come up before so please bear with me. > >In setting up my new Win7 computer I find that my iMic USB soundcard >device is not compatible. I would appreciate input from those here who >have had this problem and have found a workaround. At least my iOgear >GUC232 USB-to-serial converter works well. > >73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane >Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 > >From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest >Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon >______________________________________________________________ >Elecraft mailing list >Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >Post: mailto:[hidden email] > >This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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> In setting up my new Win7 computer I find that my iMic USB soundcard > device is not compatible. Huh? iMic should be supported as USB Audio CODEC (the standard USB Audio Class Device). 73, ... Joe, W4TV On 6/12/2013 11:57 PM, Phil Kane wrote: > I'm sure that this has come up before so please bear with me. > > In setting up my new Win7 computer I find that my iMic USB soundcard > device is not compatible. I would appreciate input from those here who > have had this problem and have found a workaround. At least my iOgear > GUC232 USB-to-serial converter works well. > > 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane > Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 > >>From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest > Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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I was curious, so I took the iMic from my XP machine and installed in on my Win7. It did so just fine. Good luck.
Dick, n0ce ----- Original Message ----- From: Phil Kane To: [hidden email] Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 10:57 PM Subject: [Elecraft] USB Sound Card for Win7 I'm sure that this has come up before so please bear with me. In setting up my new Win7 computer I find that my iMic USB soundcard device is not compatible. I would appreciate input from those here who have had this problem and have found a workaround. At least my iOgear GUC232 USB-to-serial converter works well. 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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On 6/12/2013 9:13 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
>> In setting up my new Win7 computer I find that my iMic USB soundcard >> device is not compatible. > > Huh? iMic should be supported as USB Audio CODEC (the standard USB > Audio Class Device). That's what baffles me. The system appears to load the above driver, but no audio gets through. Taking the device and plugging it into a WinXP machine - audio gets through. The manufacturer's site says that the device is not compatible with Vista so I suspect that it is not compatible with Win7 'as is". 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 >From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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Phil,
No special drivers required. I use Win7 64 bit and it works great. Try this: Right click on the little speaker icon in the lower right corner of the screen and click on "recording devices". In the window that opens, right click on "iMic Microphone USB audio system", and click on Properties. In the window that opens, click on the levels tab and be sure the volume is turned up and the button on the right says it is enabled. You may need to experiment with the volume slider vs. the MIC/Line switch in the iMic. I usually keep it on Line, and the volume slider at about 50%. When I turn the volume up to about 20 on the KX3, I get a good waterfall display. I have been using an iMic for years, and once I make sure it is enabled and the volume is turned up, it works great for either I/Q or as an input to digital mode software (I use FLDIGI) input. Keep in mind that sometimes, other software will change your settings, so you have to check them again if it suddenly seems to stop working. If you want to use its output as an input to the MIC jack on the KX3, you will have to go thru a similar setup for the "iMic Speakers". I think this little USB Soundcard is one of the best buys I have made. When I first got it, I too had problems setting it up, but I was simply making it more complicated than it needed to be. I really think it is easier under Win7 than XP because everything can be selected starting with a right click on the little speaker icon. It all starts there. No reason to open volume controls and figure out which menu you need to use next. Hope this helps. Mark KE6BB ________________________________ From: Phil Kane <[hidden email]> To: [hidden email] Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 9:39 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] USB Sound Card for Win7 On 6/12/2013 9:13 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote: >> In setting up my new Win7 computer I find that my iMic USB soundcard >> device is not compatible. > > Huh? iMic should be supported as USB Audio CODEC (the standard USB > Audio Class Device). That's what baffles me. The system appears to load the above driver, but no audio gets through. Taking the device and plugging it into a WinXP machine - audio gets through. The manufacturer's site says that the device is not compatible with Vista so I suspect that it is not compatible with Win7 'as is". 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 >From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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On 6/12/2013 10:33 PM, Mark Petiford wrote:
> Phil, > > No special drivers required. I use Win7 64 bit and it works great. > > Try this: Right click on the little speaker icon in the lower right > corner of the screen and click on "recording devices". In the window > that opens, right click on "iMic Microphone USB audio system", and click > on Properties. In the window that opens, click on the levels tab and be > sure the volume is turned up and the button on the right says it is > enabled. That did it! The step that I missed - and it's not in any of the "help" dialogs - was the right-click on the "iMic Microphone USB audio system" area, and when I got to the Properties, the slider was all the way off. Problem solved - now to make sure that the app (MixW) works like it did in XP. With thanks to all who responded. I'll save my next problem for another time... <G> -- 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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Phil,
It looks like I can't play audio through my iMic using Win7 either. I got a good indicator that my boom Mic was being heard when I selected 'recording devices' and made the iMic mic the default device. (I need to try to record a file and play it back.) But first, I can't hear any sound in my headset. It is the same headset I use for digital voice and the iMic with my XP computer. I see the volume indicators moving up to max in the 'volume mixer' as I play a music file, but no sound using the iMic. I tried various things to no avail. Dick, n0ce ----- Original Message ----- From: Phil Kane To: Richard Fjeld Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 12:14 AM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] USB Sound Card for Win7 On 6/12/2013 9:55 PM, Richard Fjeld wrote: > I did not try putting audio through it. I just installed it. It installs OK - at least the PlugnPlay sees it. > > I assume you have tried the Hi-Low switch. Also, have you looked at > your slider controls for the iMic. (right click on speaker icon, and > then volume control options) Tried them all. No audio. == K2ASP ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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Mark,
I have followed your instructions, and I agree with you on all. But I am at this point; I right click on the speaker icon, then click on 'playback devices'. I have iMic selected as default device under speakers. When I play a music file, I see the level indicator at the far right following the music volume, but no sound. (My headset and iMic work fine on my XP computer) I wonder what I have overlooked. Dick, n0ce ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Petiford To: Phil Kane ; [hidden email] Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 12:33 AM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] USB Sound Card for Win7 Phil, No special drivers required. I use Win7 64 bit and it works great. Try this: Right click on the little speaker icon in the lower right corner of the screen and click on "recording devices". In the window that opens, right click on "iMic Microphone USB audio system", and click on Properties. In the window that opens, click on the levels tab and be sure the volume is turned up and the button on the right says it is enabled. You may need to experiment with the volume slider vs. the MIC/Line switch in the iMic. I usually keep it on Line, and the volume slider at about 50%. When I turn the volume up to about 20 on the KX3, I get a good waterfall display. I have been using an iMic for years, and once I make sure it is enabled and the volume is turned up, it works great for either I/Q or as an input to digital mode software (I use FLDIGI) input. Keep in mind that sometimes, other software will change your settings, so you have to check them again if it suddenly seems to stop working. If you want to use its output as an input to the MIC jack on the KX3, you will have to go thru a similar setup for the "iMic Speakers". I think this little USB Soundcard is one of the best buys I have made. When I first got it, I too had problems setting it up, but I was simply making it more complicated than it needed to be. I really think it is easier under Win7 than XP because everything can be selected starting with a right click on the little speaker icon. It all starts there. No reason to open volume controls and figure out which menu you need to use next. Hope this helps. Mark KE6BB ________________________________ From: Phil Kane <[hidden email]> To: [hidden email] Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 9:39 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] USB Sound Card for Win7 On 6/12/2013 9:13 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote: >> In setting up my new Win7 computer I find that my iMic USB soundcard >> device is not compatible. > > Huh? iMic should be supported as USB Audio CODEC (the standard USB > Audio Class Device). That's what baffles me. The system appears to load the above driver, but no audio gets through. Taking the device and plugging it into a WinXP machine - audio gets through. The manufacturer's site says that the device is not compatible with Vista so I suspect that it is not compatible with Win7 'as is". 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 >From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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> That's what baffles me. The system appears to load the above driver, > but no audio gets through. Taking the device and plugging it into a > WinXP machine - audio gets through. Have you opened the Sound Control Panel, selected "Recording Devices" then selected the iMic, opened the Levels tab and made sure it was not muted? 73, ... Joe, W4TV On 6/13/2013 12:39 AM, Phil Kane wrote: > On 6/12/2013 9:13 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote: > >>> In setting up my new Win7 computer I find that my iMic USB soundcard >>> device is not compatible. >> >> Huh? iMic should be supported as USB Audio CODEC (the standard USB >> Audio Class Device). > > That's what baffles me. The system appears to load the above driver, > but no audio gets through. Taking the device and plugging it into a > WinXP machine - audio gets through. The manufacturer's site says that > the device is not compatible with Vista so I suspect that it is not > compatible with Win7 'as is". > > 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane > Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 > >>From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest > Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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Dick,
You are almost there. It appears you got through steps 1 and 2, but you also need to do steps 3, 4,and 5 below: 1. Right click on the speaker icon on the lower right of the screen and select Playback Devices. 2. The Sound window will open. Be sure the Playback tab is selected. This is where you can select the default device. More on that below. 3. Right click on Speakers iMac USB Audio System and select Properties in the dropdown menu. 4. The Speaker Properties window will open, select the Levels tab in that window. 5. Be sure the Speakers slider is set to something greater than zero, and be sure the little speaker icon is not muted. You can leave this window open while you try to play a file; however, be sure to click on OK once the volume is set correctly. Be sure you have the headphones plugged into the Out jack of the iMac. Of course, I never make mistakes like that. ;-) If you are simply playing a file back, you must have the iMac selected as the default device in the Sound window, item 2 above. That tells your PC to send the digital sound (music) to that device, unless you tell a specific program otherwise. You do not need for it to be the default device if you are setting it up to work with a program such as FLDIGI. You will tell that program to send data to that device. In fact, you probably don't want it to be the default device so you can prevent Windows from sending your music, and every other beep and blurp that Windows makes, out over the air! That is one big advantage of using a separate soundcard for digital modes. Hope this helps. Mark KE6BB ________________________________ From: Richard Fjeld <[hidden email]> To: Mark Petiford <[hidden email]>; Phil Kane <[hidden email]>; [hidden email] Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 11:35 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] USB Sound Card for Win7 Mark, I have followed your instructions, and I agree with you on all. But I am at this point; I right click on the speaker icon, then click on 'playback devices'. I have iMic selected as default device under speakers. When I play a music file, I see the level indicator at the far right following the music volume, but no sound. (My headset and iMic work fine on my XP computer) I wonder what I have overlooked. Dick, n0ce ----- Original Message ----- >From: Mark Petiford >To: Phil Kane ; [hidden email] >Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 12:33 AM >Subject: Re: [Elecraft] USB Sound Card for Win7 > >Phil, > >No special drivers required. I use Win7 64 bit and it works great. > >Try this: Right click on the little speaker icon in the lower right corner of the screen and click on "recording devices". In the window that opens, right click on "iMic Microphone USB audio system", and click on Properties. In the window that opens, click on the levels tab and be sure the volume is turned up and the button on the right says it is enabled. You may need to experiment with the volume slider vs. the MIC/Line switch in the iMic. I usually keep it on Line, and the volume slider at about 50%. When I turn the volume up to about 20 on the KX3, I get a good waterfall display. > >I have been using an iMic for years, and once I make sure it is enabled and the volume is turned up, it works great for either I/Q or as an input to digital mode software (I use FLDIGI) input. Keep in mind that sometimes, other software will change your settings, so you have to check them again if it suddenly seems to stop working. If you want to use its output as an input to the MIC jack on the KX3, you will have to go thru a similar setup for the "iMic Speakers". > >I think this little USB Soundcard is one of the best buys I have made. When I first got it, I too had problems setting it up, but I was simply making it more complicated than it needed to be. I really think it is easier under Win7 than XP because everything can be selected starting with a right click on the little speaker icon. It all starts there. No reason to open volume controls and figure out which menu you need to use next. > >Hope this helps. > >Mark >KE6BB > > > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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Thanks to those who answered my post about using iMic on Win7. First let me say I tried all the things suggested with no luck. I never found anything muted or disabled.
At first, nothing, then I could play sounds, but no music. It seemed that it began working after I used Quickmix to load iMic. (Actually, it showed USB audio device.) **I noticed I now had a volume slider for Windows Media Player which I did not have before. I now could play music. The slider can be seen by right clicking the speaker icon, and then selecting 'open volume mixer'. I had trouble using Quickmix on Win7 when I first tried it several months ago. I wish I could remember what the fix was. (Maybe later.) Quickmix has been working fine and is a handy utility. Thanks for your help. Dick, n0ce ----- Original Message ----- From: Mark Petiford To: Richard Fjeld ; [hidden email] Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 8:19 AM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] USB Sound Card for Win7 Dick, You are almost there. It appears you got through steps 1 and 2, but you also need to do steps 3, 4,and 5 below: 1. Right click on the speaker icon on the lower right of the screen and select Playback Devices. 2. The Sound window will open. Be sure the Playback tab is selected. This is where you can select the default device. More on that below. 3. Right click on Speakers iMac USB Audio System and select Properties in the dropdown menu. 4. The Speaker Properties window will open, select the Levels tab in that window. 5. Be sure the Speakers slider is set to something greater than zero, and be sure the little speaker icon is not muted. You can leave this window open while you try to play a file; however, be sure to click on OK once the volume is set correctly. Be sure you have the headphones plugged into the Out jack of the iMac. Of course, I never make mistakes like that. ;-) If you are simply playing a file back, you must have the iMac selected as the default device in the Sound window, item 2 above. That tells your PC to send the digital sound (music) to that device, unless you tell a specific program otherwise. You do not need for it to be the default device if you are setting it up to work with a program such as FLDIGI. You will tell that program to send data to that device. In fact, you probably don't want it to be the default device so you can prevent Windows from sending your music, and every other beep and blurp that Windows makes, out over the air! That is one big advantage of using a separate soundcard for digital modes. Hope this helps. Mark KE6BB ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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