Cytho

4 hours ago, OldNick said:

 

Just coming back into the fold after an absence...

From (way) past experience and present AFAICS, CWbB wants to control whatever sound device you have given it. There may be a Win setting that stops this, as was suggested earlier, but....CWbB may over-ride that.

AFAICS the reason is that CWbB bypasses the audio system of Win; IME this shows up if you try to alter the volume of your playback using the Win volume controller while working ...nothing happens to music played by CWbB.

For instance, I have a separate sound card from the onboard. The onboard is pointed to the High Definition Audio of the MoBo , while Cakewalk is pointed to the other sound card. If I try to play YT stuff, it comes from the monitor's speakers if CWbB is running, and not from my headphones. So if you have only one sound output, CWbB will block it, it would appear.

From the point of view of producing and engineering, this is essential; you can mix to what is best and hear the result. It turns Win into a DAW. You are not hearing anything affected by Win....a seriously non sound accurate system. No YT,,,,no games levels

I have bought a little headphone preamp, because if I want to mix properly, it's as if I have the Win sound control set to Max, so I need the preamp adjustment , post digital, to stop from going deaf, while still monitoring, levels, distortion, clipping etc. on the meters.

Thank you alot for the information, unfortunately I'm not financially able to buy myself a new sound card and have to try to work with what I have.
I'm really new to all of this stuff, so I will try to update my knowledge and hardware as I go.
Thank you alot and have a nice day!

2 hours ago, scook said:

Try changing driver mode

 

WASAPI Exclusive will not share the driver with other applications

Also make sure that the default sample rate in Cakewalk

 

and Windows are the same

 

 

Thanks for all the help, this seems to resolve my problem. 
Again, thank you ALOT for all the help!!
Have a nice day my friend. Cheers

Just now, Cytho said:

I did that, upon restarting Cakewalk and having only him running,and again I get this error. 
No silent buses error though when I enter Cakewalk.

I press use anyway

15 minutes ago, zaquria said:

Drop the Sampling Rate down to 44100, and make sure that your Windows Sound settings for the Default Format are 16bit, 44000 hz (CD Quality).

I did that, upon restarting Cakewalk and having only him running,and again I get this error. 
No silent buses error though when I enter Cakewalk.

It is selected by default and I don't have an option to select anything else in either Playback or Record timing master.

10 minutes ago, zaquria said:

No worries, we all have to start somewhere

In Sonar, go to your preferences, device settings, and in the Playback Timing Master and Record Timing Master select your Realtek sound drivers. You should have an Output for the top and Input for the bottom.

In Audio l Devices l Input Drivers l Output Drivers  
I selected only two choices I have , Mircophone Array and Speakers
I think you can see it from my screenshots.

Is Sonar = Cakewalk?
Cause either I am extremely blind or I don't have it. 
Thanks for being so patient!!

8 minutes ago, zaquria said:

 

In Sonar, go to your preferences, device settings, and in the Playback Timing Master and Record Timing Master select your Realtek sound drivers. You should have an Output for the top and Input for the bottom.

My whole setup is pretty much Lenovo laptop and speakers, no microphone or any other VST

3 minutes ago, zaquria said:

What Audio device do you have? (Not the soundcard on your computer).

You seem to be using your generic Realtek audio drivers.

Make sure that the Playback and Record timing masters are using your Audio Device (Not your onboard Realtek sound driver). If the Realtek is all you have then select that.

 

 

I'm only using my speakers(they are pretty only though).
Where can I select that?
PS I'm really sorry for all the trouble, I'm not exactly a tech guy.

10 minutes ago, zaquria said:

Can you post a screen shot of your Cakewalk settings?

If you need any more screenshots let me know

5 minutes ago, zaquria said:

Can you post a screen shot of your Cakewalk settings?

1 minute ago, zaquria said:

Close all your programs, and restart them. Your browser might still be holding on to the previous settings.

Upon opening Cakewalk I get an error saying " There are no audio devices for the current driver model on your system . Please go to Edit l Preferences l Audio l Playback and Recording and choose a different driver modul" and after that an error about silent buses (Master)

3 minutes ago, zaquria said:

What Sampling Rate did you use?

48000

I did as you instructed, and now I'm getting an error saying : Unable to open audio playback device. Device may not support the current project's audio format or may be in use. For help please visit ... etc"

Also thanks for the help!

Hello everyone,

I'm COMPLETELY new to DAW and I've been trying to set up Cakewalk for days now. I've been looking at numerous videos on Youtube on how to get started. One of the things I was doing was setting my metronome to hear it while I'm recording. At first I didn't have any sound in Cakewalk and kept getting an error message about silent buses(Master), when I got rid of that I could hear metronome and everything was fine, and when I returned to YT video to continue I didn't get any sound on YT or anywhere else expect in Cakewalk.

I'm extremely new to all of this so any help would be appreciated.
Thank you