No audio after saving without headphones plugged in

[William Boll]

I was in a hurry to import an audio track into a song, so I opened Cakewalk and loaded the song without plugging in my headphones.  I saved the song, and now I can't get any audio from the project.  The audio worked this morning, and the only thing I "changed" was to import a track.  All of my other Cakewalk projects play perfectly, and the settings all seem to be the same across the board.  I'm totally lost.  I've been using Cakewalk exclusively since 1989 and this is biggest problem I've ever had with it.  Any advice?

[Amberwolf]

Are your headphones USB, with their own driver?

 

Or are they standard headphones that plug in to an audio device with a 1/4" or other type of standard TRS plug?

 

 

[William Boll]

I'm using standard Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro headphones.

[57Gregy]

14 hours ago, William Boll said:

I'm using standard Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro headphones.

Welcome to the forum.
I don't have these headphones. What audio interface are you connecting them to? Or are you plugging them directly into the computer sound card or with a USB cord?

[William Boll]

13 hours ago, 57Gregy said:

Welcome to the forum.
I don't have these headphones. What audio interface are you connecting them to? Or are you plugging them directly into the computer sound card or with a USB cord?

Thanks for your help!  The headphones plug directly  into my laptop using a standard 1/8 inch phono jack.  It might plug into the sound card but I'm not sure.  I haven't added any hardware, so it's whatever the factory standard is for laptop audio jacks.  Every audio source (streaming media, stored audio, system sounds) defaults to the laptop speakers when the headphones aren't plugged in, but all audio goes through the headphones if they are plugged in.  But I'm finding that Cakewalk is very persnickety in that the headphones have to be plugged in when starting the app or they won't work.  I already knew this, but I didn't know that if you saved a project in that scenario, it changes some setting so you can't use the headphones at all.

[William Boll]

On 6/4/2025 at 9:03 PM, Amberwolf said:

Are your headphones USB, with their own driver?

 

Or are they standard headphones that plug in to an audio device with a 1/4" or other type of standard TRS plug?

 

 

I'm using standard Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro headphones with a 1/8 inch phono jack.  Sorry, this is my first post here and I don't know what I'm doing.