I recently purchased the A&H Zedi-10FX and ever since it has been a nightmare to work with. First of all I am very new to all of this music production jargon, routing, etc. but seeing that the Zedi-10fx could be an audio interface and a mixer as well as a streaming device, I decided to go with it.
My first problem is even getting it to playback any tracking I record in Cakewalk. I play 4 chords and track it. Then when I play it back in order to record a lead guitar piece over it, it sounds so garbled over my headphones (monitor). I have used the following routing in cakewalk. Even if I change the output to 'Master', it doesn't make any difference.
Secondly, I can't seem to understand how the drivers work. The Zedi has ASIO drivers which I have downloaded and installed but when I go to Cakewalk preferences and choose ASIO, i get the following error
If i choose No and stay with ASIO, the laptop hangs like hell and I just can't do anything else. So i just kept it as WASAPI but still experience the aforementioned issue of garbled audio playback.
Here's a snapshot of the Zedi Driver. Note the ASIO not active momentarily flips to ASIO active (PC mode) but switches back in less than a second. Does having a ASIO compliant audio interface mean that I don't need to choose ASIO from the Cakewalk driver menu and can just stay with WASAPI shared? Would there be any benefit in using ASIO4ALL?
I am using a Dell laptop with Realtek ASIO which I've heard causes issues and have produced tracks with this before but not using a standalone audio interface. Now that i have an audio interface, I expected the workflow to be more seamless (if I can get it to work). My laptop specs are Dell latitude 5310 i7-10610U CPU @ 1.80GHz 2.30 GHz, , 16 GM RAM, Windows 11 Pro.
Heres what my PC audio looks like:
I know that this post is long winded but I'm getting pretty desperate at this point. I just wanna be able to start making music. Thanks
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Dazzla
I recently purchased the A&H Zedi-10FX and ever since it has been a nightmare to work with. First of all I am very new to all of this music production jargon, routing, etc. but seeing that the Zedi-10fx could be an audio interface and a mixer as well as a streaming device, I decided to go with it.
My first problem is even getting it to playback any tracking I record in Cakewalk. I play 4 chords and track it. Then when I play it back in order to record a lead guitar piece over it, it sounds so garbled over my headphones (monitor). I have used the following routing in cakewalk. Even if I change the output to 'Master', it doesn't make any difference.
Secondly, I can't seem to understand how the drivers work. The Zedi has ASIO drivers which I have downloaded and installed but when I go to Cakewalk preferences and choose ASIO, i get the following error
If i choose No and stay with ASIO, the laptop hangs like hell and I just can't do anything else. So i just kept it as WASAPI but still experience the aforementioned issue of garbled audio playback.
Here's a snapshot of the Zedi Driver. Note the ASIO not active momentarily flips to ASIO active (PC mode) but switches back in less than a second. Does having a ASIO compliant audio interface mean that I don't need to choose ASIO from the Cakewalk driver menu and can just stay with WASAPI shared? Would there be any benefit in using ASIO4ALL?
I am using a Dell laptop with Realtek ASIO which I've heard causes issues and have produced tracks with this before but not using a standalone audio interface. Now that i have an audio interface, I expected the workflow to be more seamless (if I can get it to work). My laptop specs are Dell latitude 5310 i7-10610U CPU @ 1.80GHz 2.30 GHz, , 16 GM RAM, Windows 11 Pro.
Heres what my PC audio looks like:
I know that this post is long winded but I'm getting pretty desperate at this point. I just wanna be able to start making music. Thanks
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