Stephen Dey

16 hours ago, 57Gregy said:

The Master probably needs to be set to the same output. That's the silent bus.
Welcome to the forum.

Hi 57Gregy and thanks for welcome and advice on "The Master probably needs to be set to the same output" , where is that located please ?

Thanks

47 minutes ago, John Vere said:

Thanks, I have made a few midi tutorials because I had 2 friends who started out from scratch a few years ago. They found most of the videos talked way over their heads. They had never done any recording in the past and the terminology requires a dictionary of Studio language. So I made the tutorials for them. I always learn something new when I do this and from setting up to do the above video I figured a few things out I didn't know in the past. 

A setting buried deep in the windows sound menus to "Listen to this device" to make my mike work for the screen capture among them. It was an actual battle to get on board audio working properly which surprised me. But Windows is overly complicated and assumes to many things that are not correct for DAW users. 

The no sound issue comes up a lot here. I see now that the main reason will be the list of sound card output options. Cakewalk defaults to the output at the top of the list which is in most case the Digital output. The one your not using. So No sound. To make matters worse for Newbies the Buss pane is hidden from view so they don't even know it exists or what a Master bus is for. I bet there are a lot of people who finnish projects and never looked at the Master bus. 

After working with the onboard sound to make the video it only convinced me that a proper audio interface is very much required to have things work the way they should with Cakewalk, OBS (screen capture) , and even Vegas ( video editor).  Audio interfaces start at around $50 a small price to pay for improving sound quality and workflow. 

Spot on there John,

I suspect that my on board audio (Realtek) might not be the best for this purpose, although I've got the most up to date drivers, I have also got a Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Fx card that I could install instead and delete all the Realtek stuff instead,  Any thoughts please ?

Thanks again.

Hi Stevie and John,

Found my problem, I  had not selected the correct output in Tracks under the Audio Outputs -  selected - ASIO4All v2HDA Primary ouput 1 , ( previously it was showing Master ) and then I clicked on various instruments in the drum set that I'd previously loaded, I first used  my mouse and got the sound ok and pleased to say likewise the sounds would also play using the correct  keys on the synth keyboard.

So I then saved the page as a project and then reopened it, but strangely got the same warning message " Silent Buses Detected",  but I then went into the saved project and it played the sounds ok as before. 😕

Hi there Stevie,

I've got the same error msg as well mate,   When you say "make sure all the in/out boxes are checked to  speakers" where are these located please ?