Insolating Audio IN/OUT???

[Alejo]

Hello to all,

I am writting to you to comment you some strange effect I get when I record audio (not midi yet) on my PC. I would really appreciate any advice before I become nuts.

The ingredients for this nasty soup are:

Sound Card Audiophille 2492, by default, and SB Live!
Mixer Phonic 1002a, very simple.
Cubase VST 5.0.

When I record a second audio track in the program, it comes with the sound of the first one, and so on. Therefore, the fifth track will come mixed with all the previous four ones. It is imposible to do something with the instruments independently, except from the first one, which is still "virgin".

I am starting to hear that this could come from the Audio IN/OUT misconfiguration. It seems that I have to insolate the Output from the signal I am injecting into the PC to avoid this effect. I have to control what I hear independant of what I feed in. If not, I will always record the previousllu recorded. The Mixer does not allow me to do this, because it only has one "main" output. I also tried all the combinations with the Audiophile setup.

I am wondering if the Audio OUT could be insolated fron the Audio IN via software, either on the Sound Card software or on Cubase.

Another solution could be using the SB Live! as Audio OUT, and The Audiophile 2492 as INPUT, but I don't think tha't's the most elegant solution. And i don't know either if it would work.

Any ideas?

I hope everything is as simple as changing a stupid cable from one side to another. Thank you very much for your time.

Regards,

Alejo

 

[Toki987]

If you are using a version of the Windows operating system, have you opened the windows recorder>options>properties>recording> and unchecked "what you hear" and check line-in?
That is a most likely culprit.

 

[Alejo]

Thank you, I will check it out. I try all the combinations under Audio hardware, but I cannot remember that one.
I hope the problem is that.

 

[Alejo]

The "What U Hear" option was unchecked, when I selected the SB Sound card. For the AP 2492 there is no such option.

More ideas?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Toki987]

Not being familiar with cubase and the AP card I`m at less of an idea than you here. However it sounds to me as though in your signal chain you are perhaps "input monitoring". In sonar I defeat this by turning "input monitoring" off and use monitor functions on my mixer instead of coming from the sound card.
perhaps someone with experience with the other sound card and CUbase can help you further with this problem.