Unable to monitor audio channels.

[venerable bede]

Hi Again. Wow you must be sick of me.

I just tried to make my first audio recording in Cubase Sx.
I plugged my guitar into my preamp then into the left channel of my sound card (audiophile 2496).

When I strike a chord I can see it is registering in cubase and if I open up the mixer my input and my audio channel are taking the sound in but not the output. I can't here a thing.

If I click on record I cant hear a thing but cubase does record the track.
When I play the track back it plays fine.

I have gone into preferences and set monitoring to "tapemachine" i think thats what it is called but no joy.

This is frustrating the hell out of me. I have gone through the manual and followed their step by step instructions but still can't seem to hear a thing.

Any Ideas ?

Thanks Again

[richiebee]

Originally Posted by venerable bede

Hi Again. Wow you must be sick of me.

I just tried to make my first audio recording in Cubase Sx.
I plugged my guitar into my preamp then into the left channel of my sound card (audiophile 2496).

When I strike a chord I can see it is registering in cubase and if I open up the mixer my input and my audio channel are taking the sound in but not the output. I can't here a thing.

If I click on record I cant hear a thing but cubase does record the track.
When I play the track back it plays fine.

I have gone into preferences and set monitoring to "tapemachine" i think thats what it is called but no joy.

This is frustrating the hell out of me. I have gone through the manual and followed their step by step instructions but still can't seem to hear a thing.

Any Ideas ?

Thanks Again

I think the 2496 comes with its own mixer that you can access through the control panel. It's most likely a setting in there that needs changing. I had big trouble understanding the routing on one of these things, but once I'd set up presets, everything was clear and I could change the settings and revert easily.

Latency might be an issue if you're not using "direct monitoring". I can't remember whether the 2496 has this ability.

R.

[TimRP]

There are two ways of monitoring, one is after the signal as gotten into the computer and thru cubase and the n back out or whats called software monitoring, and the other is thru the sound card just before it sends the signal on to the processor/memory, or hardware monitoring.

I found software monitoring just fine for my wifes vocals, there is some latency going in then coming back out, but truth be told its not much more then standing 15-20 feet from a speaker/stage monitor, and performers do that all the time. If you want to use software monitoring with cubase goto devices--->device setup---->VST Audiobay deselct direct monitoring. Then when recording make sure the record button and the little speaker icon are highlighted for the track you are recording to.

But for those diehards that need zero latency (or near zero) hardware monitoring is what you want. For that go to your m-audio delta control panel, and select monitor mixer for H/W out 1/2 in the patchbay router. Then in the monitor mixer tab you will be able to adjust levels and pans of whatever you are recording, if you are just recording one channel, make sure the pan (little itty bitty slider below the mixer inputs/outs faders) is pan'd center.

Hope that makes sense, maybe I got some of it wrong but that should steer you in the right direction.

[brandondrury]

All good advice so far.

You will want to make sure that your have assigned the correct outputs. Press F4 to open up the input / output assignments. Make sure that have selected your Audiphile 2496 as the ouput.

Also look at the top of each channel in the mixer and make sure they are all going to "stereo out". If you change the outputs, it's quite possible that these are set to nothing.

Brandon