help im new

[skine923]

i have played guitar for 20 years and i havent worked on computer for 10.
i have ran live sound at the church i attend but we have never recorded anything. so we decided to start recording but i have no idea what im doing.
heres my gear i have a 24 channel board running to a 24 channel snake to the back of a motu 24 i/o then it is fire wired to my pc. it is a windows based pc with 4 gigs of ram 500 gig hard drive. it has the pci e 424 firewire adapter in it i get signal to the motu and i get signal to cakewalk on the pc. how do i get cakewalk to recognize all of my inputs. am i missing something or do i need to try diffrent software. i dont want to go chasing around diffrent versions of usless software. i would like to find something that is use friendly since i am new at this. i am not an idiot but motu will not give me any info without me having to pay for it. if you have an suggestion please post or email them to me
ronald.brock@gmail.com

 

[gcapel]

I use cubase but most all software has some fundamental similarities.

Verify the drivers have been correctly loaded for the motu device.

In Cakewalk you will have to choose the correct motu asio driver. Inputs may need to be enabled or turned on. I don't know where but most likely something called "device setup" or "Control Panel" within cakewalk.

 

[Sirnothingness]

After you've done that, tell your church to up the tithing and go get a Mac.

 

[Jim Lad]

If it's software your looking for, I'd probably suggest Samplitude in your case.
They are always upgrading so the previous model usually goes for cheap on E-bay.
It follows basically the same model as Cubase and is quite intuitive.
Given that you're doing this for the church, I'm guessing that you may want to take it with you. Church Hall, home, other PCs etc.. You can actually use Samplitude on more than one computer without verification or breaking any rules.
As for recognizing your inputs, I don't have Cakewalk but with most DAWs, look under "File" or "Options" for "Preferences" or "Audio Preferences".

 

[JIMBOdrummer]

is it not a digital mixer?
if your just outputting to the interface with an XLR than you can't see all the lines on you're software no mater how much money you spend.

you would need to output line by line to a 24 track (or how ever many tracks you use) digital line mixer.