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isw wrote:
Don't know about PCs, but on a Mac, if you look in Audacity's
Preferences, you see "Devices", and from there you can select any
installed Recording source. Of course, this assumes the Behringer thing
is properly installed.
The Behringer doesn't even need drivers (unless you want to use ASIO4ALL),
and automatically installs itself in Windows.
My guess is that if the drivers are already there, they came as a part
of the OS install. That's pretty common; I know Apple does it that way.
Most USB-connected audio adapters these days implement a standard
USB-audio endpoint interface, and announce it in their USB
descriptors. Similarly, most modern operating systems support the
host side of this interface, and "glue" it to their own audio APIs
(Windows sound system, OSS, ALSA, etc.). So, the basic audio
goezintas and goezoutas are largely "plug and play" these days, as
long as the device and OS implementations are reasonably well done.
The audio boxes may also have pushbutton controls, indicators, and so
forth which are often implemented as USB HIDs (human-interface
devices). These may or may not be supported by the OS and any
particular application.
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