Trouble with monitoring in Cubase.

[amusickid202]

I'm pretty much a total newbie.
I've tried recording but have not really "dived in" yet.

I have a now three year old Presonus Firestudio audio interface. I recently bought KRK Rokit 5 monitors. i have a pair of Beyerdynamic DT 770 cans.
One problem to start out though is that although we have this nice new iMac we got in the fall.. It's up in my attic / third floor area where it can get very got during the day.
We have AC though.

Anyways, I've started recording but i ran into confusion with like, how to get the monitors hooked up while also still being able to listen on headphones.
That is.. I want to use headphones to monitor myself while playing guitar (mostly recorinding myself singer-songwriter stuff). But then I want to hear that stuff played back on the KrKs.

The KrKs work for monitoring when I plug them into any output pairs from 1-8. But they aren't working out of the main outs L and R...the outputs that the firestudio's manual says should have speakers plugged into. Also there's a good deal of hiss and popping from the speakers when I plug 'em into the numbered outputs. I hear almost nothing and can't playback any tracks though when they're plugged into the L and R Main Outs.

Is there'd something basic I'm missing about monitoring here?

Any help appreciated,
All the best,
Nate

 

[c7sus]

Have you installed the software "universal control" that comes with the Presonus and the latest Mac drivers?

 

[Bane01]

First thing I'd check is that you have everything correctly configured in the DSP software. This can be found under Devices>Device Setup in Cubase. Under the VST Audio System tab on the left make sure that the correct driver is chosen (the one bundled with the Presonus), and under VST Audio System click the driver name and navigate right to the Control Panel. This opens up your DSP software (assuming your model has this) where you should double check that your main outs are setup where they receive audio from either your computer's output channels, which are often labeled DAW 1/2, or a headphone mix that contains those channels. Again I haven't worked with your software so I have no clue how things are configured.

To hear yourself zero latency you will want to activate the inputs you are recording through in your DSP mixer and mute those tracks in Cubase so you don't get delays. Since latency wont be a big factor here, you may want to raise the buffer size as well so that any related clicking or popping will disappear.