Duk Youn Kim

I am not sure I understand you correctly, as this stuff gets deeper and deeper, but according to my research, these kind of things are inevitable with anything that includes ASIO Wikipedia describes ASIO like this. ASIO bypasses the normal audio path from a user application through layers of intermediary Windows operating system software so that an application connects directly to the sound card hardware. In addition, I've tried other windows DAW including cakewalk, P ro Tools, PreSonus Studio One, and many others, But none of them had ability to use ASIO for recording and WDM for playback. I am able to monitor these channels on my mixer but not on PC I thought it was pretty simple and straightforward issue, but apparently not, it seems. I don't think it is the mixer problem, but that of windows' I hope the next version of cakewalk comes out with this thing solved.

ok to explain in brief way, I have a live situation and need multi track recording. multi track recording is possible and established. BUT because of ASIO driver thing monitoring the multi track recording is not possible with cakewalk playback the multi track recording is not possible with cakewalk I hope this makes more sense 😉

Will definitely try that. Thank you very much! One question though, what does it mean 'ASIO not being in focus'? What I need is live monitoring, as well as playback monitor...

Hello all I have a cakewalk installed pc connected to digital mixer. mixer is allen and heath QU 16 it requires ASIO driver which is available with official version on its website. I need multitrack recording using QU16 and cakewalk. When connected using the official ASIO drivers, Everything seems to be working (at least I can get track signals that I need) Except I don't get monitor input or playback sound. After hours of research and experiments, it seems like it has something to do with ASIO drivers. I can gurantee it is not a bitrate problem (at least in my case) Digital Mixer uses ASIO drivers for multitrack recording, while windows need WDM drivers for playback to PC The problem is cakewalk using one driver only at a time for recording and playback. so you get either ASIO only or WDM only. There has to be a way to utilize ASIO for recording and WDM for playback otherwise things just does not make sense because it is a multitrack recording function that monitoring is not possible Which is just a gamble. You can only verify the recording once it is finished, and there is no way to fix it if the recording had problems. So I contacted allen and heath and they told me that it is a cakewalk problem and I need to talk to cakewalk. Is this why people migrate to Mac? Any help guys?