Asio

[dotonemanband]

Cake was working fine with Asio. After inserted a VST "Band In a Box"  into the daw, the error message BIAB wasn't connecting with cake ... please close and try again.  When opening Cake again there was no sound, so I changed to Wasapi shared and now I can hear but slight latency delay.  Asio is showing as an option but when I try Asio it still has no sound so for now I'm be using Wasapi. Any suggestions on how adjust to get back to Asio again? 

[John Vere]

If your using on board audio you have to use WASAPI. To use ASIO you need an audio interface. You will hear latency until then. On board audio is limited in use for daws 

in-my signature is links to my tutorials watch the videos on onboard audio and ASIO 

Edited June 11, 2021 by John Vere

[dotonemanband]

I've been using an older Roland UA-25 interface for a long time. It's been ok until I tried opening the BIAB Vst ... Just wondered if there was an easy fix to hear Asio again as it's showing as an option but when applied I don't hear any sound. 

[John Vere]

Did you check your master bus output?  This video walks you through basic set up for using an audio interface.  The master buss is explained at around 9 min.

 

Edited June 11, 2021 by John Vere

[John Vere]

And just so you know, The common way to use Band in a Box is create the song in the stand alone app and then export the midi file. Open that in Cakewalk and take advantage of the much better sounding instruments. Also much more powerful effects and editing. 

If you leave all the midi outputs unchecked in Preferences/Midi/ Devices  Cakewalk will OPEN the midi file with TTS-1. You can then replace with better quality like the SI instruments and 100's of free VST plug in available. 

Edited June 11, 2021 by John Vere

[rsinger]

FWIW I open biab with asio and create a song and then open CbB with asio setup to share. Click the DAW button in biab in the upper left corner and it shrinks biab and keeps it on top and you can select instruments from below the menu bar and drag and drop into CbB. So far I've just been doing it with audio, I haven't tried that with midi tracks.

Edited June 12, 2021 by rsinger

[dotonemanband]

Thanks for your assistance John Vere and rsinger.  I now have asio working again and also thanks for the BIAB suggestions. 

Edited June 14, 2021 by dotonemanband

[Starship Krupa]

On 6/12/2021 at 3:09 PM, rsinger said:

I open biab with asio and create a song and then open CbB with asio setup to share.

Interesting. What interface do you have that has an ASIO driver with a shared mode? The ones I've seen only allow one app at a time to use the ASIO driver, although I find I can still run other apps in WASAPI with varying results.

[John Vere]

They didn’t explain that correctly. What the op was doing was running 2 applications that both used ASIO That’s not an issue. I sometimes have 4 audio apps open using ASIO. As long as they are all using the same sample rate they will run

 

[rsinger]

14 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

Interesting. What interface do you have that has an ASIO driver with a shared mode? The ones I've seen only allow one app at a time to use the ASIO driver, although I find I can still run other apps in WASAPI with varying results.

What John said. What I meant was open CbB with asio and CbB setup to share. Although I just checked and I don't have suspend audio engine checked so that isn't necessary.