"What-You-Hear" with Realtek onboard sound?

My computer uses a Gigabyte GA-EP45 mainboard with Realtek's ALC889A onboard sound. Does anyone know if it has the capability to enable "what-you-hear" recording (like a standalone soundcard would)? According to this thread I should be able to find options for it in the Audio Mixer, but exhaustive searches haven't pulled up anything so I'm thinking the onboard sound just doesn't have the capability...

Barring that, I might be interested in picking up a real soundcard to replace the onboard, but want to make sure "what you hear" recording is a possibility. Is there any way to check that a card can do that, or is it pretty much standard these days?

Thanks,
m19

 

I have a SoundBlaster xTreme Fidelity card, and it has "what-u-hear" recording in XP, but not in Vista or windows 7 beta. This is also true for my laptop, my other desktop, and the onboard sound card for the desktop with the upgraded sound card.

So this issue may be more to do with Vista than your PC.

 

Forgot to mention I have XP.

m19

 

Hi Morgan,

Not really sure what you are getting at but, most any Audio player will record what is going to the speakers. Play what you want from any source and turn on recording at the same time and you will get "What is going to the Speakers". Works here. Onboard sound is usually same chip that is used on PCI boards etc.

Good Luck, Jim

 

With my previous computer's SB Live!, there was a specific option under Recording settings called "What You Hear" that had to be enabled to record anything that's currently playing.

One of the first things on the new computer I tried was that same thing and it didn't work, so I set about looking for the "What You Hear" setting and couldn't find it.

I'll try again tonight, but from what I can tell so far "just recording" isn't going to do the trick.

m19

 

Hi Again M19,

The function is probably really in the Audo Player. I use a real old Program called Willow Pond Media Rack. I doubt that you can get it anymore. It allows recording while playing. I'm pretty sure that there are plenty of other out there to download that have the same feature. Try searching for one. I' ll check other progs here and see if I can find another one that does it.

Luck, Jim

 

I think we're on two different pages. The program's not the issue; I've used CoolEdit for years and it's perfectly capable of recording "what you hear"... so long as the system is able to do so. That's the part I'm thinking this onboard sound just can't do, but I won't know until I get back in front of it again tonight.

m19

 

Hi M19,

I'm useing onboard Realtek 97 sound. I just recorded using two instances of the dumbest player/recorder known to man, Sound Recorder. It did the job well. You evidently have a problem with CoolEdit. Hope you can find a good replacement for it. Looks to me like your hardware is OK.

Jim

 

Oi.

Let's just stop this here, okay? While I appreciate the attempt at helps, I've already said I can't do anything until later today– I know for a fact "just hitting record" on CoolEdit or sndrec32 or whatever else you want to mention isn't working.

All I wanted to know is if the Realtek onboard sound is able to do that, due to conflicting info I've found online. It sounds like it should; I just need to go try some more things and figure out why it's not working.

m19

 

Back home on my computer now; I've tried several programs (including Sound Recorder and CoolEdit) and none are recording "what you hear". Given that I can now verify the problem on multiple software packages, I'd say there's a fair chance either a) it's a setting with the sound somewhere that I just can't seem to find or b) it's just not capable of it.

Can you do me a favor? Go into your Realtek Audio Manager, click Mixer, and tell me if you have a "what you hear" option in there. Supposedly that's where the option to enable or disable that functionality should be-- mine has no tab, button, or checkbox of that variety at all. Yours might be working fine because you have a setting for it that's enabled.

The only options I have under "Recording" are CD volume, Mic Volume, Line Volume, and Stereo Mix; all of those are checked and enabled.

m19

 

i have the gigabyte ep45 ud3r and when I can't find it anywhere here but I am running vista x64.

 

Hi Morgan,

I was trying to give you a method to test your hardware to see if it was capable. I've been doing the play and record bit for some 10 years with many different MB and/or PCI boards and never found one that needed to be enabled.

So Long, Jim