ASIO crashing cakewalk, win 10

[CHRIS RUTH]

Hi

I recently installed cakewalk, was formerly using Sonar home studio.

When i switch the driver mode to ASIO, Cakewalk crashes. It does not respond to anything until i reset the driver to something else.

I read on the Cakewalk help site that ASIO was the preferred driver mode. Is this true? 

Anyway it should not crash the software. Running it on a new windows 10 laptop.

MME and Wasapi work. 

I am trying to get the best sound quality I can, recording through a Blue Mic

 

thanks 

 

[John Vere]

ASIO drivers need to be installed. You get them from the manufacturer of your audio interface. ASIO is by far the best driver to use so this is why it is highly recommended to purchase a proper audio interface for recording audio with a DAW. You can playback and work with midi using WASAPI but recording audio you will need an interface. They start at only $ 50 and go up. It all depends on how many ins and out you need 

 

if the Blue Mike is USB it is probably using a class compliant audio driver. Those types of mikes are for podcasts not professional recording 

Edited January 6, 2021 by John Vere

[Promidi]

What audio interface do you have and does it come with native ASIO drivers?  (ASIO4ALL does not count and should be avoided if possible)

[mok]

Hi! I have same problem. I have Zoom H4 and I have installed ASIO drivers from Zoom website. But cannot use them, Cakewalk crashes about 3-4 seconds after I have started a project.

[CHRIS RUTH]

thanks for the replies! I have a DAW(USB Pre2). I can connect the mic via usb (then it should use it's own driver) or through the DAW. Either way it crashes when I select ASIO. Also i made sure i downloaded the latest driver for the DAW. 

[John Vere]

Did you download the latest drivers and install them   I’ve never heard of that brand it’s not common  it says 2011 so that’s old 

 

Edited January 8, 2021 by John Vere

[Bruno de Souza Lino]

Do you happen to have a AMD cpu by any chance? I had similar issues with my H1n and the support people told me the drivers are not compatible with AMD CPUs.

[CHRIS RUTH]

i got ASIO driver mode to work but i cannot record. When i click the record button i get nothing, but i'm seeing the level changes on the DAW interface so i know the mic is working, here are the settings. Is this something to do with Windows settings?

[scook]

Is the track armed for recording before clicking record on the transport?

There is a record button on each audio track and at least one track must have the record button enabled for the transport to start recording audio.

[CHRIS RUTH]

1 hour ago, Bruno de Souza Lino said:

 

yes, armed, and it's intel i5 processor 

I don't even get the meter anymore

[Bruno de Souza Lino]

If you already plugged the mic, you have to uninstall the microphone and its drivers via Device Manager, install the Blue drivers, then plug the mic in. Windows will always default to its own signed drivers, even if you install another driver for the thing.

[CHRIS RUTH]

its working now. The only things i did were disable all the input and output drivers i did not want to use, in preferences,

and in the window 'sound' control panel. I'm afraid it may go back to not working though.

Anyway, thanks for helping!!! 

[John Vere]

@CHRIS RUTH

In your screenshot of the Track inspector input setting I see what looks like Stereo. Don't use stereo to record a mono mike. You will end up with a left or right sided stereo track.  Use the input the mike is plugged into . it might be marked as 

Left -Interface name- ASIO- Mike 1      = input 1    Cakewalk records a mono track

Right - Interface name-ASIO - Mike 1  = input  2    Cakewalk records a mono track 

Stereo-Interface name-ASIO - Mike 1  = input 1& 2 Cakewalk records a stereo track  Useful for recording stereo sources like drum machines and keyboards but not mono sources like a mike or guitar. 

Also looks like the track output is going directly to your interface. Normally we send all tracks to a master bus then that goes to your interface. That way you can control the overall level of the project. 

Everything looks OK in the first screen shot other than the round trip latency seems real high for that buffer setting. I guess that because it's an old interface. If you keep having issues it might be time to upgrade.  

A shot of the audio devices and sync and cashing page might be handy . 

 

 

Edited January 8, 2021 by John Vere

[Bruno de Souza Lino]

56 minutes ago, John Vere said:

@CHRIS RUTH

In your screenshot of the Track inspector input setting I see what looks like Stereo. Don't use stereo to record a mono mike. You will end up with a left or right sided stereo track.  Use the input the mike is plugged into . it might be marked as 

Left -Interface name- ASIO- Mike 1      = input 1    Cakewalk records a mono track

Right - Interface name-ASIO - Mike 1  = input  2    Cakewalk records a mono track 

Stereo-Interface name-ASIO - Mike 1  = input 1& 2 Cakewalk records a stereo track  Useful for recording stereo sources like drum machines and keyboards but not mono sources like a mike or guitar. 

Also looks like the track output is going directly to your interface. Normally we send all tracks to a master bus then that goes to your interface. That way you can control the overall level of the project. 

Everything looks OK in the first screen shot other than the round trip latency seems real high for that buffer setting. I guess that because it's an old interface. If you keep having issues it might be time to upgrade.  

A shot of the audio devices and sync and cashing page might be handy . 

 

 

We don't know which Blue mic it is, but none of them are stereo afaik.