Help with Minifuse i/o settings within Ableton live 11

Fuse MiniFuse
#1

I recently acquired a Microfreak and Minifuse 2. I am new to hardware synths and facing few issues within Ableton to get audio-recording to work.

Here is what I have done so far,

  • Connected Minifuse to macbook using the Arturia in-box cable. Upgraded firmware and rebooted machines.
  • Using a TRS mono cable, connected the Microfreak output to Minifuse 1. Turned it on so light is blue and can see gain response.
  • Within ableton – Driver Type selected is Core Audio. And minifuse (4 in, 4 out) for Input and Output
  • In Input config, selected 1 & 2 for Mono, 1/2 for Stereo. Similar options selected for Output.
  • Now when track is armed with Audio From Ext. in - 1, And Monitor In and Auto, I can see the gain but it only records almost a phased out noise.
  • Also, when mix dial on Minifuse is on 100% USB, i hear this same noise. Though when it is on 100% input, I can hear the clean synth output – though ofcourse, it does not record.
  • Lastly, in Minifuse Control Center when I enable the Loopback to Hardware Outputs, I can hear complete synth sound, though this doesn’t have any impact on Ableton input channels. Also I haven’t done changes to Loopback and only tried it as it made the mix dial output correct sound to play.

I think i am doing something very obviously wrong with routing, making the audio input and output cancel out, leading to a phased out audio-recording, but can’t really pin-point with little experience.

Any help?
I am also attaching the screenshots. Thank You!

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#2

Hi OP,

Did you manage to resolve your issue? I ask because I am facing exactly the same issue when trying to record guitar with my current Scarlett 2i2 2nd gen interface (yes, its old) and Ableton 11. So, I was considering upgrading to MiniFuse. I just did a random search on google to ensure that it will work and found your post.

So, it would be great to know if you managed to solve this.

Cheers,

#3

Hey yes, for me it turned out to be the new voice isolation mode in macOS that was reading input as microphone and turned on voice isolation mode by default, I had this hidden from menubar so took me a while to notice it.

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#4

Oh wow! Thank you so much Nitin for your follow-up response. This saved me some headache and cash (although I may still upgrade to MiniFuse). Who would have thought that the macos voice isolation mode would be the culprit here! This only seems to be a problem with Ableton and not with Logic Pro or Audacity so maybe they should also warn Mac users in their docs.

Thanks so much again, truly appreciate it :slight_smile:

Cheers,
Sachin