Cakewalk questions from a recording newbie

[tone4days]

Re: Cakewalk questions from a recording newbie

... which would suggest to me that Windows can recognize the Pod as a recording device...

yup, but not necessarily cakewalk ... the wmp playing through the headphones clears up the masio thing (i think) as long as cakewalk is usb ready (couldnt tell ya there)

when i installed my pod toneport, the driver got installed fine - but the recording s/w had to be told to use the masio pipe for i/o (it was on a pulldown) .. then i selected it for both input and ouput

 

[LesStrat]

Re: Cakewalk questions from a recording newbie

When opening a new project, should I accept "normal?"

 

[tone4days]

Re: Cakewalk questions from a recording newbie

When opening a new project, should I accept "normal?"

couldnt tell ya - dunno what it refers to or what the options are ... sounds like a safe start absent reading the manual

 

[LesStrat]

Re: Cakewalk questions from a recording newbie

just a bunch of midi options.

 

[tone4days]

Re: Cakewalk questions from a recording newbie

oh, yeah ... then no sweat - you wont be usin midi so normal is good to go

 

[LesStrat]

Re: Cakewalk questions from a recording newbie

's wut ah figgered.

Ah'm jes' a dum' redneck in Cajunlan'

 

[ratherdashing]

Re: Cakewalk questions from a recording newbie

Normal is the way to go.

 

[LesStrat]

Re: Cakewalk questions from a recording newbie

:cool2::cool3:

I'm almost normal...I think.

 

[tone4days]

Re: Cakewalk questions from a recording newbie

any word on configuration options under cakewalk that let you select the pod as your input and/or ouput device (via usb)? ... if it lets you select the pod as the CW output destination, you might want that ... that could ultiamtely lead to getting the sound out the pod headphone jack

another thing i remember doing with CW was opening one of the sample tunes that came with it to 'check the plumbing' to make sure i could get playback/monitoring where i needed it to go ... might try that as an interim step ... then you can get the input side going (pod--> CW)

good luck
t4d

 

[LesStrat]

Re: Cakewalk questions from a recording newbie

We're onto something here. I get playback sound with WMP, but not CW.

 

[LesStrat]

Re: Cakewalk questions from a recording newbie

Now it's playing back a sample song.

But still not recording.

 

[LesStrat]

Re: Cakewalk questions from a recording newbie

I'm hanging it up for the night. Maybe ya'll will think of some more answers by tomorrow. Thanks for your time and assistance.:bigok:

 

[Al.C]

Re: Cakewalk questions from a recording newbie

I've used cakewalk/sonar for years. I got a pod for x-mas and it has worked flawlessly.
Since you are new to it I will go through some 'obvious' steps. Go to cakewalk and open an new project, normal is fine. THen insert an audio track. Cakewalk allows each audio track to have a different input. Open the audio track and you will see an input option, nothing is configured until you tell it what the input for the track is. You should see the pod as an option. THen go to the mixer view, press "R" on the track you have created(you can actually do this from the previous view) and you should have sound. Unless you press R you will not hear anything. Now this has only set the track input up when you want to record you have to press the record button near the top. Good luck. It gets easier.