Okay, so if anyone can help me with this It would be greatly appreciated. I've been trying to figure it out for a week or so.
Basically, I did a first ever install of Cakewalk and Bandlab Assistant. Everything was working great and my midi keyboard was synced with Cakewalk and my VST plugin and I could record fine, but then I load up the program the other day and suddenly it is only working intermittently or not at all.
More details:
I am using an Aturia Minilab MKII hooked to my laptop via USB 3.0 (I tried plugging it into the 2.0 port as well and still no dice).
The VST plugin I am trying to use is Arcade by Output (It has worked fine before it suddenly stopped)
When I load up Cakewalk I use an Empty Project file and add one Instrument track. The Instrument is set to Arcade and the Output is set to Master.
The Inputs I have tried to make this work are:
All Inputs - Midi Omni and Channel 1
AtruiaMiniLab - Omni and Channel 1
None of these are working, but before it stopped working I was using AtruiaMiniLab - Omni
The Recording Time Master is set to mic in at front panel which I think is the right one. Honestly I am new to this program and really music production software so...
Under Audio, my Driver Mode is WASAPI Shared
Under MIDI and then Devices Atruia MiniLab is selected as Input
Under Playback and Recording the Driver Mode is MME
Under Instruments Aturia is assigned to all Output Channels and uses the instrument <default>
Nothing is Muted or set to Solo.
As far as not being able to record goes, when all of this is working, I Arm the track for recording and make sure it is selected, but then when I hit the record button the timeline does not move and it does not start recording. Instead, it brings up the recording options whether I want to do Comp, Sound on Sound, or Overwrite. I make sure I am hitting the full button and not only the corner that brings those settings up.
Anyone have any ideas?
Another thing, maybe I was not paying attention before, but I noticed the Enable/Bypass Read Automation button has an exclaimation mark next to the R, and that the Clear all automation write enables has a slashed out mark through the W. I don't remember seeing this before but I could be wrong and it is the way it is supposed to be.
I've done two reinstalls of the program.
Thanks.
**Update on this**
Removed Cakewalk and Bandlab assistant from my computer and then reinstalled both. Before I only deleted Cakewalk but left Band Lab Assistant. Everything worked for awhile using Instrument: Arcade and Input: Aturia Minilab - Channel 1. Somehow I even got it to record at least one track. Then as I was searching through loops on Arcade, Cakewalk crashed. I load it back up using the same settings and now Minilab doesn't sync with Arcade again. It is not registering that I've pressed keys down on the midi keyboard in Arcade's interface. Even when I press on the piano keys on the interface with the mouse I hear no sound.
