Frustrated New User-Home Studio 9

[Projmersch]

First of all, thank you to everyone who posts on this forum. Many of the past posts have helped me get familiar with Home Studio 9.

My problem is this: I am playing a guitar through an M-Audio Firewire 410. I can record my playing on a track but can not hear it when I am playing. When I playback the track, everything sounds great coming out of my computer's speakers. When I record on another track, the first recorded track plays through the speakers but once again I cannot hear what I am playing.

My computer is an HP Pavilion a630n, pentium 4, running windos XP. My input driver is set for the M-Audio device. My output drivers are all highlighted and include M-Audio 410 and Realtek HD Audio Rear Output. Playback Wave Device is the Realtek HD Audio Rear Output, and the Record Wave device is the M-Audio 410.

I have run the wave profiler and restarted Cakewalk.When set to record, my console shows the sound is coming in and I can adjust the levels if it is peaking. However I cannot hear what I am playing.

Any ideas? Thanks!

 

[dachay2tnr]

I am not familiar with HS9, but if it is roughly the equivalent of Pro Audio 9 then it does not feature Input Monitoring. As such, you would have to monitor through your hardware.

My suggestion is to change the playback setting in Sonar to use your 410. Then you should be able to toggle the 410 using the M-Audio Control Panel to direct the input signal directly to the output connections. There are a couple of ways to do this I believe, either using the monitor mix feature, or by routing the input to "hardware out" rather than "wave out."

This should allow you to monitor what you are recording. However, if you are using any plug-ins on the track, you won't hear those until after you have recorded.

Of course, using a mixer would be another way to accomplish this - but I am assuming you do not have a mixer.

 

[Projmersch]

re: Frustrated New User

dachay2tnr - Thanks for the reply. I will give that a try...