recording button greyed out?

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Although my sound recorder works, cakewalk 9 's recording button is grayed out? I have a toshiba 500 pentium with 198 ram and an ESS sound card. I hope this is compatible!
 
No offense, but it's necessary to ask these questions:
I assume you are aware that you have to "arm" one of the tracks before the record button will become active. Otherwise it remains grayed out.
 
Do you have the inputs selected in cakewalk? (e.g., you have done a wave profile etc. and cakewalk knows the inputs are there?) Do you have the track armed (i.e., have you selected it to record?)
 
thanks for the replies...

Yes it was the arm button. However I really have to gripe about cakewalk. The product is no cakewalk, I'm having trouble doing and understanding all of the options. On the other hand, that product "Give me talk" worked the first time without any trouble. I really think I wasted my money since I don't think I'll be using all of the options.

I want to THANK the users and this bullitin board. I'll try to spend more time on this product before I post my problems :o)
 
Cakewalk Pro 9

Hey Joe,
I can relate! I am totaly new to home recording and bought Cakewalk 9 based on recomendations on this board and others.
I just wanted to be able to plug in my mic. or DAT, press record, add a little reverb or what ever and down or upload my music onto my hard drive. I then wanted to create my own CD from there.
Is there anyone out there who can help me understand this basic task? Can someone refer me to an easyer to understand ( for a novice ) book, video or something?
Thanks Dragon, for making this board available. I never would have gotten this far without this forum.
Blue
 
Join the club. I have CW Home Studio 9. wooo! Forget the midi for now. Just go with guitars and vocals,etc. Read the tutorials a couple hundred times (read the instructions for the soundcard (especially if its a d44) a couple of hundred times, take off a couple of days of work per week (extra!!) and youre in business!! Make sure you have a semi-pro or pro soundcard and fast harddrive 7200.
and have fun like me. Im learning and its a hard road!!!
 
Cakewalk is hard, but so is Logic and Cubase etc. You just have to persevere and keep at it. These are very sophisticated programmes, much more advanced than a 4 track etc. You can do almost anything in these programs once you've learnt how they think ;) Cakewalks help system is as good as any of the others and way better than logic.

cheers
john
 
I've been using Cakewalk for 8-9 years and there is a lot to learn (have also tried Cubase). It may, initially, seem easier to grab a "simpler" program. The first time you say, hmmmm, how can I edit only the notes smaller than an either note (and find out it can't), or how can I add effects to audio to see how they will sound when they are mixed down, the "simple" program won't seem so great. One of the problems is that to understand Cakewalk (or Cubase or N-tracks...) is that it includes an understanding of midi, computer recording, mixing, audio recording etc. This is no small task. Hang in there... it gets easier.
 
Cakewalk Book

I called Cakewalk and they informed me that there is an easier to understand book. That is written in a way non-tech people can understand.
It is "Cakewalk Power". Available at Amazon.com
Thanks again for all the thoughtful replys.
Blue
 
Ditto the recomendation on "Cakewalk Power". BUY THIS BOOK, it will make your experiance much easier. I was able to find information I never saw in the manual in no time at all.
 
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