OT(?) Problem with Analog 1 + 2 (Focusrite Usb Audio) device

theodorn

Hello fellow clackers,

I have a problem, nonpiano-related, but it might be piano-related when I start recording performances. When I connect to Discord, the website wants to use Analog 1 +2 (Focusrite Usb Audio) as a microphone.

However, there is no microphone connected to my Focusrite 2i4 audio interface. Why is this listed as a microphone then? Is it because I could theoretically connect a microphone to the Focusrite, and then this channel, definition, or whatever it's called, will be used?

I'm a bit reluctant to give Discord access to a device, I'm not even using for Discord. My main microphone is the webcam microphone (it's the only microphone that seems to work for Discord, for some reasons).

Is it OK to disable this device? Would disabling it cause problems when I'm using the Focusrite 2i4, as of now, only to listen to audio, and play with Reaper, testing MIDI files with VSTis, among other things?

CyberGene

What OS are you on?

theodorn Is it OK to disable this device?

If you don't use the audio-in for this device, you can disable it. But are you sure you can separately disable the input from output and not the entire device?

In any case, you should be able to select the microphone for use in Discord, see in the settings.

theodorn

Thank you CG. Yes, I do choose the Logitech C920 microphone, but before I even have the chance to do that, Discord has already chosen the Analog 1 + 2, and asks for permission to use it.

If I choose to block Discord's access to Analog 1 + 2, it locks up the webpage or sound settings for it at least, and I can't even choose any microphone after that, unless I close the browser and reopen it.

As I said, I'm reluctant to give the permission for Analog 1 + 2, but maybe it's OK to give Firefox / Discord permission to use a device, that won't be used anyway! Since I choose the webcam microphone afterwards, in any case.

Analog 1 + 2 is listed under microphones in the Windows 11 sound settings, so it should be OK to disable it? There is no microphone there, and if I ever connect a Shure microphone or something like that to the Focusrite 2i4, I can always re-enable Analog 1 +2, or what?

CyberGene

theodorn I think it's OK to disable that input but let's wait for a Windows guy to confirm.

theodorn

I have disabled it, will report if it gives me any problems, but I welcome opinions from Windows guys, and non-Windows people nonetheless, for that matter.

JayKominek

I've got a whole pile of audio interfaces of various sorts connected to my Windows desktop, and I disabled all the inputs that aren't the ones I use for calls, so as to avoid them being automatically selected. Hasn't caused me any harms so far.