No meter movement -- asio audio interface

[Randall Petty]

Cakewalk is set up using my interface's asio driver, but I can't get any meters to move.  In Control Panel Sound I can see the meters move for guitar and mic.   Tried setting the first track in Cakewalk to Solo but no indication it's receiving sound.  Doing something similar in Audacity showed monitoring meter movement right off the bat, but Audacity can only use one pair of inputs from the interface.

Roland HS5 session mixer which has two output or playback channels and numerous input channels

 

[scook]

To see the signal at a track's input in its meter enable "input echo," the button to the right of record

 

[Randall Petty]

2 minutes ago, scook said:

To see the signal at a track's input in its meter enable "input echo," the button to the right of record

 

Thanks I'll give it a try.... software like this just isn't designed for somebody to use it for an hour every 3 months?   

[John Vere]

Not sure if you got this working but what I see in your screen shot is you do not have record activated.

You have Solo.

And you don't need input echo on to record.  I never turn it on unless it's a midi track and I'm playing a VST.  With audio it will most likely cause a echo in your monitoring due to system latency.  

 

[Randall Petty]

Thanks turning on the input echo solved my problem ....all I wanted to do is see meter levels I had no intention of recording

[John Vere]

OK both will do the same thing, 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 4, 2020 by John Vere