I can’t hear FarPlay output in my headphones.
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I have two microphones at my piano plugged into an audio interface, which is plugged into the MacBook where I run FarPlay. I have headphones plugged into the laptop. When I create a session, I can hear my teacher (the remote user), so his microphone is working. He can hear me speak and play, and I can hear my piano, so MY microphones are working. I can hear output from iTunes, so my laptop output is working. But I can’t hear myself speak! Since my teacher can hear me speak, my microphones are close enough. The suggestion in several replies in this forum is to plug the headphones into the audio interface, but then I wouldn’t be able to hear my teacher, who is downstream of the audio interface. This all used to work just fine. It stopped when I recently upgraded FarPlay. I also have new headphones, but since they work for everything else, I don’t see how they could be the problem. Is there some new setting in FarPlay that I’m missing?
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Hi Jim, (Version 1.2.3 doesn’t have new audio device settings). To make sure that the volume of your mics is loud enough in your headphones so you can hear yourself speak, drag the local monitor level to the right.
To hear FarPlay audio when your headphones are plugged into your audio interface, make sure that under Devices you’ve set the Headphones: to your audio interface. The example screenshot below shows the selection Scarlett 2i2 USB that’s used on Mac for a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2. (On Windows, the listing for the same device would be Focusrite USB ASIO).
One reason plugging headphones into the audio interface is recommended is that this is one of the steps usually needed to reduce local latency a lot on Windows. On Mac, switching from built-in audio to a typical audio interface might improve local latency by, say, a couple milliseconds. Even on Mac, however, plugging in your headphones into your audio interface gives you another option for hearing yourself: you can turn on the audio interface’s direct monitoring function if you prefer.
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