Sanford Stein

,User 905133 and scook, thanks to all your hints I can now see IK Multimedia Hammond B3-X in my plugin list, and when I choose it for a track I do see the Hammond keyboard interface. However, when I use that interface nothing is recording, although I can hear the notes as I play them. Furthermore, the Roland synth does not work as a controller as I was hoping. (Am I possibly accessing a Hammond B3-X plugin contained within Cakewalk as opposed to the app I usually use? The 'Settings' screen is different than what I am used to.) At this point I am thinking that my idea is not going to work without additional sound card hardware, but if anyone has any more thoughts please send them along. Meanwhile I will go through documentation and tutorials.

My Hammond vst file is in C:\Program Files\Common Files\vst3\Hammond B-3X.vst. Under Edit->Preferences->VST settings->VST Scan Paths, I do see C:\Program Files\Common Files\vst3. But when I click on 'Plugins' the Hammond B-3X does not appear. So there must be something else I need to do to make Cakewalk see this vst file. There is an option in the Plugin dropdown for 'Sort by Manufacturer' but I do not see the Hammond when I select that option. Do you mean something else by "Plugin Browser"? I get the MIDI data from the JX-3P into the laptop with a MIDI to USB cable. The MIDI end is plugged into both MIDI in and MIDI out on the synth and the USB is plugged into a USB port on the laptop. This setup works fine when I use the synth as a controller for the B3-X app (and send output from the headphone port into an instrument amplifier). Thanks again for your help.

I have a very basic inexpensive HP Pavilion laptop running Windows 10. The audio input is a microphone and the audio output options are the speaker and a single headphone port. The Roland synthesizer is a JX-3P (1980's vintage). I do use the 1K B3-X in standalone mode. It sounds like you are saying that I should get Cakewalk to recognize that app as a plug-in. I do not see the B3-X in my list of plugins so I tried "Scan VST Folders" but it did not find the app. If I could get Cakewalk to use the B3-X app's keyboard as input, and then use my Roland as a MIDI controller for the B3-X, maybe this would achieve what I'm trying to do? Otherwise it sounds like my only other option is that ASIO audio interface. Thanks to everyone for your responses.

rsinger, thanks for your response. I'm using MIDI on Roland to USB port on the laptop. I do this with 1K Multimedia Hammond B3-X software and the output sound goes to the speaker or headphone port. I was expecting the same thing with Cakewalk, but it sounds like I need an additional piece of software to make this work. So far I have not seen this addressed in You Tube tutorials, but I'll keep looking.

I have never used any recording software and am trying to figure out Cakewalk. I want to use a Roland synthesizer as input. I have connected the synth via MIDI to a USB port on my laptop but it is not linking to the keyboard in Cakewalk. Furthermore, I do not get any audio output from the computer whether I play the Cakewalk keyboard or the Roland. As far as I know I do not have any sound inputs on the laptop other than the MIDI USB. I must be missing something very basic which the online documentation is not telling me. Thanks for any help you can give me. sdstein7@yahoo.com