Garageband Latency, Guitar Monitioring Options

[roders]

I've been playing about with Garage band & my guitar, plugging my guitar directly into my Mac (with a 1/4 Cinch jack to mini jack lead to plug in) in Audio midi setup I've changed the input (and output) sampling rate to 24Bit, but when I change the input as well as output smalping rate to 96000 Khz (to reduce latency) I get problems.
I can only set either the input or the output to this resolution (not both at the same time, which ever I set first seems to stick, and then whichever I set second doesn't) or I get a click and the resolution immediately sets back. If for some reason the resolution change does stick in Audio Midi setup. As soon as I open Garageband I hear a click, and if I check Audio Midi setup, the resolution has gone back down again.

What I want to know is, is they're a workaround in the OS? Is it a bug in the OS? Is it a limitation of Garageband? Or do I need a separate Audio interface?

P.S Garageband is set to low latency in the prefs and only one audio channel is active/monitored.

Hardware/Software versions

Macmini Core Duo 1.66Ghz 2GB ram, upgraded 7200 rpm internal laptop drive.
Mac OSX 10.5.4 Leopard, Garageband v3

[mortalengines]

Ok...plugging your guitar into the 1/8" jack to get it into the computer is a TERRIBLE way to do it. For something like 49 dollars US you can buy the Line 6 Silver bundle that comes with a USB interface and it offers direct/latency free monitoring. It will sound a whole lot better too.


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[deaconblue]

It is not a bug, but Garage Band doesn't support that resolution. Try backing it down to either 44.1 or 48Khz to be able to use GarageBand. If you want to work at that resolution, you'll need at least Logic Express if not Logic Pro.

And, as mortalengines pointed out, the solution you are using is ok, but not great. If you use a breakout box (M-Box, Presonus FireBox, MOTU [traveller, 828, Line 6 Silver, etc.]) you'll be able to adjust latency in the interface settings.

peace.