Ian George

Thanks, this worked! It works perfectly now.

Something very weird just happened. I opened up cubase to try that again as I hadn't used it to record audio for a while and it worked fine. I then went back to cakewalk, opened a blank project and tried recording and it worked fine. I opened the project I had been working on and tried recording and it was distorted again. I opened another blank project and tried recording and once again it was distorted.

I do have the synth going through a mixer, I haven't tried changing the output level of that yet.

I've recently started using Cakewalk and I'm loving it apart from the audio recording. I'm trying to record in the audio from some hardware synths but it always comes out distorted. The waveform looks fine but it sounds distorted with a lot of clipping and turning the gain down does not change that. It makes it quiter but the distorion and clipping is still there. They only way to avoid this is to turn the volume down on the synth so low that it is barely audible. It is then very quiet in cakewalk and if I turn the gain up there is a lot of noise. I also have Cubase and that records audio perfectly. I can't find any way to adjust the recording level in cakewalk and changing the recording level in windows doesn't help. I'm using the built in intel hd audio with the generic asio drivers, I have tried using asio4all but that doesn't work at all in cakewalk. Has anyone else had this issue? Is there any fix for this?