Audiophile 2496 soundcard

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I'm sorry to say that I am getting no help from M-Audio tech support. I am using an Audiophile 2496 soundcard with Cakewalk on new Dell PC. I can record using Cakewalk but cannot hear via headphones while recording. M-Audio tech support only offers this: "The direct monitor setting in cakewalk needs to be active. Set Wav out 1/2 to monitor mixer in the M-audio control panel and the monitoring active in cakewalk."

What is he saying?
 
yea those guys really suck, but the audiophile is a great card. what u need to do is find the options for the audiophile, if you are using windows and don't see it in the m-audio icon on the bottom corner go to your control panel and go to other control panels and you should see the options for the audiophile. go to the patchbay/router and under h/w out and choose monitor mixer. i never used cakewalk, i use pro tools and in pro tools if you just hit the record button on track it goes into monitor mode
 
In Cakewalk, on the track you're recording, there are 3 little buttons for solo, mute and record, and then another little button. This is the 'monitor' button, which turns the monitoring on and off for the track that you're recording. So in the case of vocals, if you're tracking with headphones on you want this switch off, because hearing your own voice in the room, in your head, AND in your ears is a bugger to try to sing in key with. But if you're recording guitar direct through a POD or something, you want this switch on, because you want to hear what you're playing.
 
Still Problems - Help Please!!

Ok this works. I can get sound in and out at the same time now thank to the input above. Here is the strange thing. Did what you said. Found M Audio Delta Control Panel and if I selected under H/W Out 1/2, Monitor Mixer, and I selected Input Monitor On in Cakewalk and I get this huge delay in recording??
 
The "monitor mixer" setting sends the Audiophiles input signal directly to the Audiophiles outputs. If you run the Audiophiles outputs into a small mixer and use the headphone out then you will get no delay [latency]. What are you connecting to your audiophiles outputs to monitor with headphones?
 
Don't use Cakewalks input monitoring unless...
A: You need to hear the sound of a track plugin while recording.
B: You have the Delta panels latency buffer value low enough so you can't hear any delay. For input monitoring, the delay heard is twice that of the buffer time.

Don't ever use the softwares input monitoring at the same time as the cards Monitor Mix option. Only use one or the other!
 
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