Problem recording drums (output?)

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I am lucky to own a Roland TD9-KX drumset and I'm very pleased with it (even though you cannot compare it to a good acoustic set) and I was thinking it would be nice to record some stuff.

I had been looking around the net for quite some time and I figured that a Tascam US122mkII would be a good choice (after reading some reviews etc.) So I ordered one of those, along with a midi cable (and got Cubase LE5 for free)

After installing drivers and software I was ready to connect the drums to the module and the module to the laptop (Acer 8730g). No problem thusfar. But it was only then I realised that I had no clue how to make this midi-thingy work! So I figured I could try and just connect two audio jacks and drop the midi. This way I couldn't record in midi, but what the heck, that wasn't really what I wanted to do anyway.

So I followed the steps that are in the manual:
1. In the device menu, device set-up I changed the asio driver to the us122mkII driver
2. In the VST connections menu I checked whether the devices were all 'us 122' and they were

Also, in Windows, I changed my default audio devices (recording and playing) to us-122mkII and since I plug my headphones in the module, I can hear anything that the laptop produces (eg. music from windows media player etc.)

Now this is were the trouble comes in:
- I can record something in Cubase BUT when trying to playback what I just played I cannot hear a thing. And the strange thing is, when I record with the soundrecorder of Windows (and save what I recorded as a wma) it DOES play my rrhythms. :( I'm confused.
- When I import a song into Cubase and try to play it, it doesn't play it BUT when I play a song in WMP it does play..

I figured this has to do something with my output settings, but they are all fine: a stereo output through the module.

Any hlp would be greatly appreciated!
 
In the VST COnnections window take a look at the outputs. Then look at the cubase mixer. Does the output channel show a level?
 
TetraFish said:
In the VST COnnections window take a look at the outputs. Then look at the cubase mixer. Does the output channel show a level?
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In the VST connections window the outputs (stereo) are set to us122mkII, so this is correct I suppose?

The cubase mixer: while recording, I get movement on the bars, but while playbacking nothing happens:

I wanted to link to an image, but I am not allowed :( anyway, the bars of my mixer don't move neither the bar of 'audio #1' nor 'stereo out'.

Thanks for the reply though :)
 
Do you have the monitor button (the little round orange button with a pic of speaker) on? Can you see that you've recorded a track?
 
BramVroy said:
In the VST connections window the outputs (stereo) are set to us122mkII, so this is correct I suppose?

The cubase mixer: while recording, I get movement on the bars, but while playbacking nothing happens:

I wanted to link to an image, but I am not allowed :( anyway, the bars of my mixer don't move neither the bar of 'audio #1' nor 'stereo out'.

Thanks for the reply though :)
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You only need 5 post to be able to post a picture and links!!
 
TetraFish said:
Do you have the monitor button (the little round orange button with a pic of speaker) on? Can you see that you've recorded a track?
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Yes, it is on. I can see that it's recording because I can see the 'soundwave' that is formed.. I am all out of ideas. Damn it.
 
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