Total newb to Cakwalk and have ?s

[Brian Mavity]

Greetings folks.

Used to do this years ago with Audacity (yea, that long ago) I have Cakewalk and using Positive Grids Riff as an interface but I keep getting ASIO conflicts. I can't use both at the same time. Trying to use the Riff/Bias Fx2 as a standalone but I'm guessing I need to somehow open it up in Cakewalk. I do not know how to do this. 

Any help in the right direction?

 

Thanks in advance

[Alan Tubbs]

Don’t know what positive grid riff is but as far as drivers go, you get one asio driver only.  So Cakewalk will only see its asio driver not two. 

[John Vere]

 

[InstrEd]

^^^^^^

Watch the above video and actually watch all of his videos

[reginaldStjohn]

You need to select the Riff audio driver in the Cakewalk setup. The videos referenced will walk you though it.

[John Vere]

I just looked this up and it’s Guitar sim software so not sure what ASIO interface you are using with it.. 

[Lord Tim]

I'm sure John's video spells it out well, but basically you can only use one ASIO device at a time. If you want to use more than one audio device, you'll need to switch to WASAPI mode. But bear in mind that unless you have a way to lock their timing together somehow (usually with some kind of wordclock cable) then you'll get timing drift between the different devices.  How much of that actually bothers you is up to how you plan to use the devices and how sensitive the timing needs to be for your recording.

That said, it looks like you only really have one interface and you're trying to run Bias as its own app outside of Cakewalk. Why? It works great as a plugin just inserted into a track, and you'll likely get FAR better performance out of ASIO than trying to wrangle multiple devices and apps with WASAPI.

[John Vere]

Actually what we don’t know is what @Brian Mavity is using for an interface. If it is the Real Tek on board system then ASIO would be a bad idea an WASAPI the correct driver. Hopefully he will watch the video and sort that out.  

[Lord Tim]

On 3/11/2023 at 8:58 AM, Brian Mavity said:

Positive Grid Riff as an interface

^^ this was mentioned as the interface, which is THIS THING. Looks like PG's version of IK Multimedia's iRig, basically.

[james rector]

But it seems to lock you into one ASIO device and input / output.

[Byron Dickens]

ASIO only allows one driver at a time.