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No sound from h/w 1/2

Ok Sorry if I sound noobish but this whole hardware analog and quarter inch input output stuff is new to me, I've only dealt with vst's. I got a roland mc 505 I want to hook up to my sound card. The way it's connected is output of the back of the roland, and input into the sound cards h/w 1/2.
The activity meter is lighting up, but im getting no sound through my monitors. I am using a audiophile 192, could anyone help?

check the routing, the inputs are probably going nowhere

thanks for the quick reply echo!
heres what my settings look like

Switch to the 4th setting in your first pic under HW/OUT

nope that didnt do it, I don't need a mixer do I?

Is that the normal volume thats playing? That looks really low. Also you should update your drivers. They came out with a new one that has a different look for the mixer window now somewhat. What do the settings look like on your last page?

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Originally posted by supersonik Is that the normal volume thats playing? That looks really low. Also you should update your drivers. They came out with a new one that has a different look for the mixer window now somewhat. What do the settings look like on your last page?

yes the volume on the synth is low, but at max I still can't pump anything out of my monitors, heres the view of my last page:




driver version 5.10.00 5057

My bad, I meant the 3rd page, im at my studio computer now. I use the same soundcard. Oh and I guess it does look the same still, the taskbar icon is differnet now though

lol ok I thought u meant the 3rd one too rofl

Ok, mine doesnt have the input channel phase + 180% checked, also you should probally use sample rate 44,100 and higher. I use the 256 latency but that really depends on your own settings. 512 is fine. And you sure you have your wires from the roland output into the soundcards In R In L ?

I just checked my second page to and it does say like yours did at first with the first one checked, wavout s/pdif. If none of that works. Thats pretty weird.


Edit

Ok it doesnt matter b/c I still get sound playing if I uncheck the 180% tabs. Im not sure why it wouldnt be working

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Originally posted by supersonik Ok, mine doesnt have the input channel phase + 180% checked, also you should probally use sample rate 44,100 and higher. I use the 256 latency but that really depends on your own settings. 512 is fine. And you sure you have your wires from the roland output into the soundcards In R In L ? I just checked my second page to and it does say like yours did at first with the first one checked, wavout s/pdif. If none of that works. Thats pretty weird. Edit Ok it doesnt matter b/c I still get sound playing if I uncheck the 180% tabs. Im not sure why it wouldnt be working

yea I have two 1/2 plugged into the rolands output
and two 1/2 plugged into the sound cards IN R and IN L.
hmmmm
I checked if the roland was giving any signal at all, so I plugged it in directly into my monitors, there is sound coming out, but for some reason my sound card picks up activity on the meter, but no sound...

Looking at the second pick you posted at the top. You have the volume slider way down. You did try turning that all the way up right?

Yea tried that, all the volume bars are up,
do you guys think i need a mixer or something?

A mixer wouldnt do any good b/c its the same thing. Except your just adding a extra step the sound travels through. Maby you need a pre amp or something b/c the volume from the roland isint loud enough? If you hook the roland up straight to the monitors. Do you have to put the volume all the way up on the monitors and the roland to hear any sound? If so, you probally would need a pre amp then. Some mixers have pre amps though

well yea the volume through the monitors is pretty loud, but seems like it isn't loud enough, so you might be right!

i didnt read whole thread, are you using cubase? are you talking about h/w 1/2 in or h/w 1/2 out?

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Originally posted by mysticalninja i didnt read whole thread, are you using cubase? are you talking about h/w 1/2 in or h/w 1/2 out?

using fl studio 6xxl
and im talking about h/w 1/2 IN

well in cubase you have to enable or disable direct monitoring, and also uncheck 'disable audio app controll of routing/mixer' ... its somewhere in the maudio control panel

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Originally posted by mysticalninja well in cubase you have to enable or disable direct monitoring, and also uncheck 'disable audio app controll of routing/mixer' ... its somewhere in the maudio control panel

ya I diabled it, but no luck ;(
I hate this lol!!

hmm what do you mean you disabled it? You want audio app controll of router/mixer NOT to be disabled. So you want that NOT checked. thats what you did right?

lol yea sorry didn't mean to sound confusing,
YES, I did UNCHECK the box

anyone else have this problem?

If you're seeing activity on the meter, then it's hooked up correctly. Having it hooked up correctly does not necessarily mean you'll hear it on your output, though - it has to be patched through for that. (On a side note, ASIO Direct Monitoring has nothing to do with that, it's just a way of recording what's coming out of the interface).

Looking at your first screenshot, I see "H/W In 1/2" volume turned down to -55 dB. Have you tried turning that up?

I'm also looking at your patchbay and the patching you would want to do in this case is from "H/W In 1/2" to "H/W Out 1/2" (that's where your monitors are hooked up and where your wave-out is going). That option seems to be disabled for some reason, as well as most of the other options in the patchbay. The only one that's enabled is some stuff in the S/PDIF column which obviously won't make any difference unless you're actually using the S/PDIF out.

My guess - and I can't be sure of this since I don't use M-Audio products - is that your interface simply doesn't support patching more than one signal to your output. What that means is that you have to do the patching in your sequencer. It's pretty easy in Cubase, but I haven't used the latest versions of FL, so you'll have to ask someone else how that's done.

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